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October 27, 2022
A judge has sided with Richmond officials in a lawsuit over whether the Virginia city can remove a final Confederate monument and…
July 5, 2022
Relatives and other inmate advocates said the 2020 law's reversal cruelly upended plans for reunions and homecomings.
January 23, 2022
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said he will follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and isolate for…
January 18, 2022
"You can't just brush this under the rug and think that it's going to just go away," the burn victim's…
December 30, 2021
The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia has agreed to house a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee…
Jackson Ward, Virginia
December 17, 2021
Black communities and elected officials are hoping money from Biden can be used to help undo the nation's decades of…
December 5, 2021
Preliminary work on the pedestal removal was expected to begin Monday, with the project expected to be “substantially complete” by…
September 8, 2021
The removal of the Robert E. Lee monument wouldn't have happened without weeks of activism following the murder of George…
August 26, 2021
A federal appeals court upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black church…
Marcus Thompson thegrio.com
August 17, 2021
Friends and family rally together to search for a Virginia man, Marcus Thompson, who was reported missing by his mother…
Washington D.C.
April 29, 2021
A senseless shooting in Richmond, Virginia led to the tragic deaths of a new mother and her infant daughter.
November 30, 2020
Richmond trans woman, Chae’Meshia Simms found fatally shot in driver's seat of car: 'Tremendously heartbreaking.'
George Floyd theGrio.com
July 29, 2020
A hologram of slain Minnesota man, George Floyd, is set to tour the southern United States in the coming weeks.…
Richmond protesters thegrio.com
July 28, 2020
The recent riots that took place in Richmond was instigated by white supremacists who were posing as Black Lives Matter…
July 10, 2020
A judge issued an injunction Thursday barring the city of Richmond from removing any more Confederate monuments and staues.
July 2, 2020
Work crews wrested an imposing statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson from its concrete pedestal along Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue…
June 18, 2020
Virginia state senator Jennifer McCllelan announced that she is declaring her campaign for governor for the state for the 2021…
June 8, 2020
A Virginia man who drove his car into protestors over the weekend is an admitted leader of the KKK and…
Confederate General Robert E. Lee theGrio.com
June 4, 2020
After years of protest, an iconic monument of the Confederacy, a prominent statue of General Robert E. Lee is coming…
Arthur Ashe
June 24, 2019
After years of debate, the tennis legend finally has a street bearing his name in the place he was born,…