Man sentenced to year in prison for shooting death of VCU student
A Richmond man was sentenced to a year in prison after killing VCU student Samuel Kwarteng in April. Emmanuel E. Jordan, 20, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in August and given the sentence last Monday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Jordan shot and killed the Alexandria native outside a home on the 1200 block […]
Thousands join Obama, Northam ahead of Nov. 7 election
In his return to the political arena, President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of voting for the entire Democratic ticket in this year’s gubernatorial election, at the Richmond Convention Center on Oct. 19. “You can’t sit this one out… not when the state of our democracy is at stake,” Obama said. Obama hit the campaign […]
Institute of Contemporary Arts to open late April
VCU announced the $41 million Institute for Contemporary Art is set to open April 21, six months later than the original designated date of October 2017. The 3-story, 41,000 square-foot building is located at the intersection of West Broad Street and North Belvidere Street. The ICA will work directly with the School of the Arts, […]
Students explore legacy of human trafficking in Richmond on Untold Tour
A professor is taking her students out of the classroom and into the historical underbelly of Richmond for a class in the Wilder School about contemporary human exploitation. To help her students understand how modern human trafficking has a relationship with the past, Maureen Moslow-Benway,professor in the Wilder School, took them on an ‘Untold Tour,’ […]
Community forum examines Black life in Richmond
The Department of African American Studies, in collaboration with The Jericho Movement, hosted a ‘Black Richmond’ community forum about political prisoners Oct. 18. Adam Ewing, co-organizer of The Community Forum and a professor in the department of African American Studies, said the idea for the forum sprung up after hosting an event to celebrate the […]
Author donates 1.1 million to Wilder School
Bestselling author and VCU graduate David Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, will give $1.1 million to the College of Humanities and Sciences. The gift announced on Oct. 6, comes in two parts: An endowed experiential learning fund and an endowed scholarship of $100,000. The Baldacci Student Experiential Learning Endowed Fund will create monetary opportunities for […]
Three charged after pellet gun fired at arts building
VCUPD charged three people with various felonies after shots were fired outside of the VCUarts Fine Arts Building located on the 1000 block of West Broad Street the evening of Sept. 30. The pellet gun was fired from a car at three large windows, shattering the exterior glass — the shots did not enter the […]
VCU students voted at higher rate than nation in 2016
VCU students voted at a higher rate than all eligible voters in the U.S. in the 2016 presidential election, according to a new report. 61.5 percent of VCU students voted in 2016, a 4.7 percent increase from 2012, according to an email from Charles Klink, senior vice provost for student affairs. The number is higher […]
Reported rapes nearly doubled at VCU due to awareness, police say
The number of reported rapes almost doubled at VCU last year, according to the campus police’s annual report. There were 15 reported rapes in 2016, eight the year before and five in 2014. In the past three years, almost all of the reported rapes occurred in dorms. VCU Police shifted the process for handling sexual […]
Meet the VCU student who chairs the first human rights task force in Richmond
Riqia Taylor, 21, is a senior African American studies major at VCU. She is also the the chairwoman of a task force striving to organize the first human rights commission in Richmond. Other commissions currently exist in neighboring cities like Charlottesville, Norfolk and Fairfax. As a civilian, how did you know that Richmond had an issue […]