RVA Fashion Week returns: Local designers bring individuality to in-person events
Ebonique Little, Spectrum Editor With gowns featuring large hoop skirts, oversized puff sleeves, ruffles and feathers, designer Azi Blas knows no bounds. “I’m global,” said Blas, who has been designing clothes since the ’70s. “My mentality is not dictated by a person, place or thing.” At the 13th Annual Richmond Fashion Week, Blas presented his […]
Exhibition simulates mental health disorders to raise awareness
Grace McOmber, Contributing Writer In the middle of a dark room sits a large white machine with rotating teeth and small slips of paper next to it. Above it, a sign directs the reader to write a “worry” on the slip and place it into the machine before turning the lever and shredding the paper. […]
Spectrum editor’s list of films to watch for May 5
“The Rape of Recy Taylor” (2017) Exploring the historical legacy of sexual violence against Black women, this moving documentary tells the story of Recy Taylor, an Alabama sharecropper who was gang-raped by six white men in 1944. During the Jim Crow era, very few women spoke against their abusers, but with Taylor’s courage and the […]
Freshmen look back at year marked by COVID-19
Anya Sczerzenie, Contributing Writer First-year student Aanchal Dubey wasn’t expecting her introduction to college life to go very well due to the COVID-19 pandemic isolating her from fellow students. But she says it went better than expected. “I expected it to be a lot worse during COVID,” Dubey said. “But I made a lot of […]
Community activists remember Marcus-David Peters near three-year shooting death anniversary
Selna Shi, Contributing Writer Nearly three years after a Richmond police officer fatally shot VCU alumnus and high school teacher Marcus-David Peters, a local activist group honors him in a space around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue. “Facilitating the community space is something that we have made our main initiative,” stated Lawrence […]