April 2011

  This spring, about 10,000 third-graders in the metro Richmond region will make a difference for the environment with Project Plant It!, a program developed by Dominion to educate children…

by Torski Dobson-Arnold Dear Career Confidence Coach,   I have been reading your columns and was lucky enough to secure summer employment for the summer. I really needed to get…

  Urban Views Weekly visited Church Hill Academy last week at Peter Paul Development Center to talk to students about positive uses of social media. The students attend Lee Taylor’s…

by Cesca Janece Waterfield | Twitter @cescasings   When April Jones gathered her family together as a child, the girl had not only organized the close-knit group’s entertainment, she’d cast…

Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority announced the departure of Anthony Scott as Chief Executive Officer of RRHA. Scott will soon take on a new position as deputy executive director for…

by Dell Claiborne My mother, father and I owned a house together in the East End. In 2005, it was paid for completely, and was listed in all of our…

  “Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York” (Yale University Press, 2011) is an account of the rarely acknowledged achievements of 19th-century African Americans. As Carla…

by Cesca Janece Waterfield | Twitter @cescasings   Fresh from playing the 27th Annual International Blues Festival in Memphis, the world’s largest gathering of blues bands, Richmond’s own “The Bush…

Couple Has Given More than $22 Million   The President of the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), Burt Kummerow (left) led the ceremony for Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown. They…

by Torski Dobson-Arnold   I know I need to find new work sooner rather than later and I am trying, but it is really hard to stay on task and…