The Virginia Defender spoke last night with Diversity Thrift worker Jeremy Stump, who reported that as of Monday, Nov. 15, the strike at Diversity is over. Stump, along with Diversity Richmond program director Aurora Higgs, was selected by his coworkers to speak on their behalf during the strike.
Diversity Thrift workers take on management, walk out and win!
Saturday, Nov. 6, workers at Richmond’s Diversity Thrift went on strike. Here is The Virginia Defender’s account of what happened and what they’ve won so far.
Updates and Announcements: October 29, 2021
The October 29, 2021 issue of the Updates and Announcements newsletter.
Autumn 2021 Issue
The Autumn 2021 issue of the Virginia Defender was published on October 25, 2021. Click here to find a full PDF.
The housing crisis and Richmond’s declining Black population
Black and poor Richmonders are being priced out of the city limits, which has major implications for the city’s political balance of power. 2020 ended a 50-year period in which Richmond had been a majority-Black city.
The significance of Princess Blanding’s run for governor: A Defender analysis
A Defenders analysis on the campaign of progressive third-party candidate Princess Blanding.
Will the Black community benefit from the memorialization of Shockoe Bottom?
At this point it’s clear that something big is going to happen in Shockoe Bottom, the long-neglected area in downtown Richmond that for 30 years before Emancipation was the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade. But what, and who will benefit?
The Virginia Defender 