via BlackAmericaWeb: A year after a deadly gathering of far-right extremists in Charlottesville, Virginia, a few dozen white nationalists marched Sunday across from tCharlottesville, VirginiaThe , their numbers dwarfed by thousands of counterprotesters, while the mother of a woman killed at last summer’s protest said the country continues to face unhealed racial wounds. The events, […]
Richmond, Virginia's mayoral race has taken a strange turn days ahead of Election Day.
In a historic move, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 ex-felons who paid their debts to society, are no longer incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. Critics of Gov. McAuliffe claim the move was political and aimed at helping Hillary Clinton win the 2016 presidential election. The Virginia Supreme Court […]
GOP lawmakers in Virginia are trying to reverse Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order to restore the voting rights of more than 200,000 individuals who were formerly incarcerated. Republicans filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of Virginia complaining Gov. McAuliffe overstepped his authority last month when he restored felons’ voting rights. They have also accused McAuliffe of rushing […]
Republican lawmakers in Virginia are planning to sue Governor Terry McAuliffe because he overturned a 150-year-old law giving more than 200,000 convicted felons in the state of Virginia the right to vote. Governor McAuliffe says he has the legal and the moral authority to take action and argues that according to the Virginia constitution: “The Governor shall have power to remove […]
A Virginia state trooper who was shot when a man pulled out a gun Thursday afternoon at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia, state police said Thursday night. Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Steven Flaherty says the trooper, 37-year-old Chad Dermyer, died Thursday after being shot multiple times. State Police have said two civilians […]
Arkell Graves and his wife, Dana Griffin-Graves, are feeling better than ever since their son was born premature this week.
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
All of the prisoners in Virginia’s Richmond City Jail admit they made poor choices, and could be better fathers. As these troubled men serve out their sentences, their children pay a price – often spending the most important years of their lives without active father figures. Most of the men are in their 20s and 30s. […]
Virginia State Police said three people have been killed and more than 25 are injured following a 95-vehicle pileup on Interstate 77 near the Virginia-North Carolina border. Reports indicated the bus for the Medina varsity softball team was involved in the crash while on the way to Myrtle Beach. The team’s Twitter (@medinafastpitch) feed indicated Sunday […]
Virginia’s Oldest African-American Convention of Baptist Churches Publishes Continuous Improvement Process Model The Virginia Baptist State Convention, Inc. (VBSC) has launched the most extensive communication mapping process for churches in its 143-year history: Seen and Sustained: Best Practices in Communication that Increase the Visibility and Income of the Local Church. Co- author, Leonard N. Smith, […]
