Each Wednesday afternoon throughout the year, free produce is available at Carter Jones Park.
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The proposal includes capping a four-block section of I-95, and adding green space, new buildings and opportunities to celebrate, arts, culture and history. -
Crixell Matthews/A local historian and a University of Richmond professor want Chesterfield County to better honor the enslaved men and children who worked and died in the mines.
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The 12 petals in the design represent the people who died during the shooting. The four petals in the middle represent the four people injured, and a white center circle is for a police officer who was shot.
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Last month, over 200 scouts descended on the Albright Scout Reservation in Chesterfield County to learn a skill known as orienteering in order to complete a badge requirement. But you don’t need to be a scout to learn this valuable skill.
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On a crisp late Saturday night in early April, a group of about 50 people are gathering at a partially deserted school in Goochland County. But they aren’t here for a lecture or to study. Instead, they’re investigating to see if the county’s one time, only school for Black students is haunted.The eager group will have help from the host of the T.V. show “Ghost Hunters,” and from a special paranormal investigation team. And as Ian Stewart from VPM News reports, some unexplained sounds and images will join the adventure too.
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After nearly 400 years, Virginia’s Rappahannock Indian tribe is again in possession of much of its ancestral home. The tribe is believed to have inhabited Fones Cliffs for thousands of years before English colonization of Virginia.
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Late last month, members of the Mattaponi Indian Tribe held elections for a new chief and tribal council. The incumbent government, however, says the election was illegitimate. Ultimately, Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration will determine who the state will recognize.
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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.
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With thousands of roadways in Virginia, there’s bound to be a few that have sections that are confusing even to the seasoned driver. Here’s the tale of one such area.
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The Olympic games start Friday, July 23 in Tokyo, Japan. One athlete to keep an eye on is rugby player and Richmond-born Cheta Emba. Emba grew up playing basketball and soccer at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School and continued with soccer at Harvard. She discovered rugby while cross-training and fell in love with the sport. She’s now one of the leading players on the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team.
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In a red-brick, industrial warehouse on the westside of Richmond, about a dozen people gather for a jam session. It’s blues night, and the group is looking pretty guitar-heavy. -
Before her set at Gallery 5 in Richmond, local musician Angelica Garcia is checking her microphones and voice box before she takes the stage. Garcia tries…
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For members of Charlotteville’s Jewish community, the 2017 white supremacist rally was larger and more violent than anything they had previously witnessed in their city, but there is a long history of anti-Semitism in the community.
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What can a hundred year old tragedy tell us about violence and anti-Semitism in our current day? The sensational murder trial and lynching of a Jewish man named Leo Frank sent shock waves through Atlanta’s Jewish community and across the country. Recent events such as the Tree of Life Shooting in Pittsburgh and the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville have given the story renewed relevance.
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One of the most lethal plane crashes in Virginia history was Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, which claimed 26 lives when, on a foggy, late-October night in 1959, it slammed into the Blue Ridge. A Natural Bridge-based folk artist recently led an expedition to return a stray piece of the wreckage, a wheel, back to the impact site.
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“Edward Hopper and the American Hotel,” is a new exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The show allows visitors to step inside the world of Hopper’s paintings: a prosperous but lonely Mid-20th Century America.
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About 1400 people gathered this month at a special event to share the stories of women who’ve made contributions in Virginia and beyond. The Women’s Achieve Summit was organized as part of the 1619 Commemorations. VPM Intern Malcolm Key has more for Virginia Currents.
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On October 22nd, the Byrd Theater presents “Soul Witness,” a documentary sharing testimonies of the Holocaust. As Ian Stewart reports for Virginia Currents, the recollections were almost lost to history.
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This week, Richmonders are honoring Gabriel, the 24-year-old blacksmith who planned a revolution to end slavery. On the anniversary of his death, dancers will premiere “Brother General Gabriel” as part of the University of Richmond’s Tucker-Boatwright Festival.
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The Richmond chapter of Concerned Black Men has been quietly impacting the lives of residents for more than 30 years.
