Human Interest

Many people in the Charlottesville area know Richelle Claiborne as a singer and songwriter. Others are more familiar with her work on stage as an actress and storyteller. As an administrator at Renaissance School, she is referred to as “Mrs. Claiborne.” And at home, she’s “Mom.”

Hear how the small community of Batesville came together through music to raise $15,000 to support Ukraine relief efforts.

Suz Slezak is a songwriter, musician, wife, mother, and a founding member of the Indie Folk band David Wax Museum. I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Suz in her home in Charlottesville, where she talked about her newly released solo album, life on the road with her husband David Wax and their young children and living with bipolar disorder.

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Formerly enslaved preacher John Jasper founded Richmond’s Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in an abandoned Confederate horse stable, two years after the Civil War’s end. Today, it’s a local pinnacle of faith and service and remains an essential source of support and sustenance for thousands in the region.

On Saturday, nurses from UVA's COVID Clinic got a behind-the-scenes look at the Wildlife Center of Virginia, which they say helped them get through the darkest days of the pandemic.

In Charlottesville, for every 10 families who need affordable housing they're only four homes available.

The Pump House, located in Richmond’s Byrd Park District, is a shuttered, dilapidated municipal building constructed in the 1880s. Its sole purpose was to move about 12 million gallons of drinking water per day from the James River and Kanawha Canal up to the reservoir at Bird Park.

Cordenia and Carol Paige are planning to revitalize land they inherited from their ancestors in King William County in an effort to bring back the thriving Black community they once knew.

Drawing from her experience with food insecurity, Natasha Lemus opened a food bank in Central Virginia during the pandemic that serves with Latin flavor in mind.