The Creative ReUse Center's volunteers altered dresses and suits for the LGBTQ+ prom.
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Natasha Lindeback had to get creative.
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Critic Linda Holmes has been playing The Sims since the early 2000s.
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For nearly 60 years, this office has explored the nature of consciousness.
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If a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.
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The project takes donated firearms and converts them into garden tools.
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Blue Ridge Public Radio compiled a list of more than 35 organizations providing relief in the area.
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The superstition of Friday the 13th isn't as old as you think. Here are some of the potential origins of unlucky days around the world.
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The collector's response has stayed with Leahruth Jemilo ever since.
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The county is asking the public to choose from four animal finalists.
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On the Home Cooked podcast, Olivia Weeks explores the drug’s trajectory during the past 50 years.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has enacted a ban on evictions through December 31, 2020. The temporary moratorium comes in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and only halts evictions related to nonpayment of rent for people experiencing financial hardship as a result of the pandemic.
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Hosted by NPR’s Ailsa Chang and Rachel Martin. Episode Three reports on what has come of the protests so far, and the nation’s path forward.
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The 57th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream Speech," is set for this Friday, August 28.
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Three of the biggest running events in the City of Richmond--the Monument Avenue 10K, the Richmond Marathon and the Patrick Henry Half Marathon--are going to look a little different this season
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TV personality and chef Andrew Zimmern on his battle with addiction and how he's been helping small restaurants during the pandemic.
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The national uprising ignited by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the country’s embedded, institutional racism, including the fraught relationship between environmentalism and communities of color. Air pollution, severe weather and the economic upheaval brought on by climate change impacts black and minority communities first and worst, yet their voices are often left out of policy responses and market solutions.
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What’s it like to be foster parents during COVID-19? David Vinson and Lindsey Hershner share their experiences becoming foster parents, adapting to quarantine and providing stability to two boys during a time of uncertainty.
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Dr. Oliver Hill Jr. died this month at the age of 70. He was a professor of psychology at Virginia State University and an advocate of a high quality education for all children. He was known among friends as brilliant and down to earth in equal measure.
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What are those moments when refugees actually feel “resettled?” When are you no longer considered a refugee? Does the United States ever become…home?
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What are the first few days in America like for refugees? The opening episode of the new VPM podcast, Resettled, follows the LahPai family as they arrive in Richmond after being forced from their home country.