#ShutItDown: VCU students blocked Broad Street
VCU students gather to protest Eric Garner’s death by policeman chokehold, following the protest of the failure to indict Darren Wilson.
Michael
Rao looks across the ocean for “out-of-state” tuition
The international higher education community, especially China, has potentially offered VCU the alternative revenue streams the university has been searching for.
“Hot Spotters” helping hospital regulars
A team of female VCU students will undertake a massive challenge this fall — to unearth some of the root causes for the failing American healthcare system.
Richmonders speak against police brutality
On Sunday, August 17, one soft-spoken poet led a group of more than 200 people from Monroe Park to the steps of the John Marshall court building in a rally called “Operation: Injustice (We Stand with Ferguson).”
No justice. No peace.
As Michael Brown’s body turned cold on the pavement in Ferguson, Missouri last week, my “ifs” turned to “whens:” “When I lose a friend to violence,” “When I get pulled over by a police officer,” “When I feel the barrel:” Who will arbitrate justice for me?