United Parents Against Lead and the Virginia Environmental Justice Coalition have opened a new community center, the Community Resiliency Hub, in the Heights neighborhood of Petersburg.
PETERSBURG GETS A NEW COMMUNITY CENTER
BOOK REVIEW: THE LIFE & LEGACY OF ENSLAVED VIRGINIAN EMILY WINFREE
The book that Jan Meck and Virginia Refo have written is the first study of the life of Emily Winfree, a Virginia-born African woman who lived from 1834 to 1865 enslaved in Petersburg and Chesterfield Country and, after Emancipation, in Manchester until her death in 1919.
CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR VIRGINIA?
With the stifling, record-breaking heat waves this year and students striking in the streets, climate change is heating things up in Virginia.
PETERSBURG PROTESTERS CHARGE POLICE BRUTALITY
About 45 people, most of them African-Americans in their 20s, rallied June 16 outside the Petersburg police station just a few days after a video was posted on social media showing what appears to be police brutality against 19-year-old Devin Thomas. The rally was called by the police accountability group Virginia Cop Block.
The Virginia Defender 