OPINION: Protecting the Second Amendment shouldn’t come with loaded threats
Tagwa Shammet, Opinions Editor Rally. Next to sit-ins and petitions, it is one of the most popular forms of demonstration in the United States today. Thousands […]
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1992 CT staff writer wanted by the FBI after disappearance
This story is part of The Commonwealth Times’ special coverage in honor of its 50th anniversary. Hannah Eason, Contributing Writer It was June 1992 when CT […]
New FBI report shows an increase in hate crimes in 2016
Hate crimes in the United States increased by 4.6 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to data released by the FBI Nov. 13. According to […]
Tech massacre, as told in government emails
Then-Gov. Tim Kaine had just arrived in Tokyo for a trade mission. Back in Richmond, it was Monday morning. Bill Leighty, Kaine’s chief of staff, wrote an email to members of the governor’s inner circle at 8:48 a.m.: “There is a preliminary and unconfirmed report that a student was shot and killed on the Virginia Tech campus this morning. Campus Police have reportedly called in the VSP to investigate.”
VCU students rally against Ferguson’s “war zone”
Two rallies will take place in the VCU area in response to the death of an unarmed Michael Brown, shot Saturday by an unnamed Ferguson PD officer.
