Black Lives Matter takes a stand in the aftermath of Terrence Crutcher’s death
VCU students and Richmond-based activists responded to the police-shooting of another unarmed black man by organizing a protest on Tuesday evening on the Monroe Park Campus. As videos of last Friday’s shooting of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Terrence Crutcher circulated in mass and led to protests nationwide, VCU students met in Monroe Park and took part in […]
Black faces exude royalty in VMFA’s Wiley, Parks exhibits
Black faces exude royalty in Wiley exhibit Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley’s “A New Republic” has been a hit in Richmond’s famed Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Making its debut on June 10th, Wiley’s life retrospective has brought the museum much excitement. Much like the spectrum of each painting’s color palettes, exhibit visitors varied in nationalities, […]
Why we stand with Black lives
If America’s violent summer should have reminded us of anything, it’s that the struggle for Black justice and dignity and fundamental fairness under the law is ongoing. This is not new. This began long before George Zimmerman’s gunfire pierced Trayvon Martin’s being and it will continue long after Frank Ocean’s lyric honoring Martin’s life on his […]
Richmond’s 1,000 Man March demonstration remained peaceful, unified
In the wake of two more high-profile deaths of Black men at the hands of white law enforcement last week, Richmond’s Triston Harris organized a “1,000 Man March” on July 16 to bring unity to the community, he said. The name of the event is akin to the Million Man March organized by Nation of […]
Sterling, Castile vigil spawns impromptu march through RVA
Local photographer Joi Donaldson said she decided to utilize social media to organize a vigil and community discussion after she awoke, enraged, on Thursday to learn of a second fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man at the hands of law enforcement officials in a 48 hour span. One Facebook post authored by Donaldson […]