Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Buckle up it’s the law in Virginia. Gas prices are up as millions of people get ready to hit the road for Memorial Day weekend. Triple-A reports that the average price for a gallon of gas in Richmond is two dollars, 77-cents. That’s over 60-cents higher than this time last year. […]
Over 730 people will be awarded Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Petersburg, Virginia but several thousand showed up on Monday. The pre-application window was open for only two hours yesterday morning, leading to long lines and congested traffic. More than two-thousand people lined up to receive the pre-app vouchers. They were handed out on […]
Mother’s Day weekend was perfect for the 2018 Class of Higher Learning institutions in Richmond. Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe addressed about eight-hundred University of Richmond graduates on Sunday. Over five-thousand Virginia Commonwealth University grads got to hear from VCU Alumnus and actor Boris Kodjoe on Saturday. And, Keshia Knight Pulliam, actress and the TV […]
Virginia is getting a nearly ten-million-dollar federal grant to fight the opioid crisis. Governor Ralph Northam said on Monday that this is the second consecutive year the state has received such a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Northam says the continued funding will help Virginia’s community services boards provide prevention, […]
I caught up with Mecca and Dominique of Style and Spirits RVA. Curators of a distinctive brand dedicated to helping the commonwealth raise their style consciousness.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on August 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. She was an American vocalist and was known as “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”, and “Lady Ella”. During Fitzgerald’s 59-year career span, she won 13 Grammy Awards, awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan and she won […]
In Virginia General Assembly news, a House bill that would expand the state’s DNA database to include those convicted of misdemeanors is moving forward. John and Sue Graham believe their daughter’s killer would have been imprisoned for other crimes before he met Hannah Graham and killed her in 2014 had the database been expanded. The […]
Eleven years before Rosa Park took her famous seat on that Birmingham bus, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy refused to move, sparking a landmark supreme court case. One summer morning in 1944 Irene Morgan boarded a Greyhound bus in Gloucester, Va, where she took her seat in the ‘colored’ section and settled in for her four-hour trip to Baltimore, Md. A short […]
Barbara Johns, a sixteen year old student, staged a strike at Robert Russa Moton High School because of its deplorable conditions. One student John Stokes assisted Johns in the effort in 1951. He shares his story with me. John Stokes grew up in the Jim Crow South. He attended Robert Russa Moton High School in […]
Wendell Scott was born on August 29, 1921 in Danville, Virginia. He was the only black driver to win a top NASCAR series known today as the Sprint Cup series. He won the race at the Jacksonville, Florida Speedway Park in December 1, 1963. Scott died on December 23, 1990. Scott earned four top-ten finishes in […]
Should the monuments be removed or do they have a place in history in our parks and public spaces?
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has suggestions for improvements of city schools. Stoney is proposing an increase in the city’s meals tax to fund school renovations and new construction. Stoney says a one-point-five-percent increase in the tax will generate more than nine-million dollars annually. An increase in the meals tax would allow the city’s debt capacity […]
