VCU gathers to remember slain student Samuel Kwarteng
The VCU community gathered on the campus Commons last Friday to commemorate the life of a peer, 20-year-old senior Samuel Kwarteng, who was shot and killed on the 1200 block of W. Moore Street at 12:28 a.m. last Thursday. “It is with great sadness that I inform the university community of the tragic death this […]
French Film Festival celebrates 25th anniversary in Richmond
Richmond’s streets were filled with the presence of French flags, celebrities and filmmakers as the annual French Film Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary from Monday March 27 through Sunday April 2. The Festival was founded by husband-wife duo Peter and Françoise Kirkpatrick in 1993 and is the largest festival of French film outside of the […]
Native American activist, Rochelle Lacapa, talks solidarity and history
The Highland Support Project (HSP) and The PACE Center for Campus and Community Ministry at VCU hosted, Partnering with Native American Communities Workshop with Rochelle Lacapa, on the evening of March 18. Lacapa previously worked as a director of the John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health on her home reservation, the White Mountain Apache […]
Max Robinson | The obscurity of America’s first black news anchor
It’s been almost three decades since American news outlets rushed to report the unexpected death of Maxie Cleveland “Max” Robinson — the Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist who became America’s first black nightly news anchor after joining “ABC’s World News Tonight” in 1978 — on Dec. 20, 1988. Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia […]
Professor Tressie Cottom, Ph.D, talks about her book, LowerEd
VCU’s Humanities Research Center held their monthly, “Meet VCU’s Authors” series featuring Tressie Cottom, Ph.D., on Feb. 22. Cottom is a an assistant professor of sociology at VCU and has a highly successful website, tressiemc.com, as well as a massive twitter following of people who are interested in her approachable manner to tackling large sociological […]
An Evening with Angela Davis
The second floor of the University Student Commons hosted a mass of faculty and students waiting in winding, sold-out lines to hear Professor Angela Davis, Ph.D., — the legendary activist, educator, scholar and writer — speak in the VCU Commonwealth Ballroom on Feb. 24. The event, “An Evening with Angela Davis” was hosted by VCU’s […]
The Evolution of Hip-Hop to Rap
“I said a hip hop, Hippie to the hippie, The hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it” Sound familiar? The lyrics made airwaves in 1979 when The Sugarhill Gang released, “Rapper’s Delight.” It was the first major hip-hop song to make the transition from park jams, DJ turntables and Local […]
Anne Akiko Meyers: world renowned violinist performs at VCU
Do you believe there is an ideal age for people to get started in music and begin honing their skills as an instrumentalist? As music is a rich and complex form of communication, much like learning a foreign language, the earlier the better to start learning and studying to continue honing one’s skills like an […]
Ayanna Thompson challenges race in Shakespearean performances
“I don’t know how anyone, black or white in America, can stand up in front of an audience with a microphone and never mention it? It’s as if there’s an elephant in the room and it’s spraying out elephant diarrhea all over everyone and no one is mentioning it. It’s surreal.” -Paul Mooney On Wednesday […]
Rider Boot Co. steps on the scene
For Lisa and Ron Rider, opening a small business focused on artisan, high quality shoes seemed only natural. Lisa says Ron had always looked into opening their own store and in 2011 they launched an online retail site. Five years later, in mid-November, the couple opened their first brick-and-mortar shop in Richmond’s arts district at […]