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Segregation of the past is impacting the climate of today By: Vanessa Misciagna and last updated 2021-07-29 17:44:44-04 RICHMOND, Va. — Duron Chavis is trying to right an environmental wrong in his neighborhood that’s been generations in the making. In Richmond’s Southside neighborhood, heat radiates from the asphalt and relief is hard to find. For the last five years, Chavis has been building community gardens as a way to rectify that, but he says the way his nei...

Agecroft Hall & Gardens, 4305 Sulgrave Road, Richmond, 23221 Photo:  Holy News Guardian The Richmond Shakespeare Festival is back at Agecroft Hall! Bring your lawn chair or blanket and join Quill Theatre on Agecroft’s back lawn where you can sit as close to (or as far from) other patrons as you like! Youll have a great view of the James River, the summer sky, the stage and, of course. Twelfth Night is Shakespeares hilarious tale of unrequited love crackles with quick wit and gender-bending h...

Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art recently celebrated its third anniversary after a year marked by a four-month pandemic closure and declining attendance.

Left: "Moon Minded the Sun Goes Farther (to the Daughters of Revolutions, Who Could Fly Between the Artibonite and the James River)" by Firelei Báez. Right: Monica Rodriguez, "Antilles for the Antilleans." With its burst of blue sea spray and serene expression, the image of Yoruban water deity Yemoja stands in contrast to the glass and steel exterior of the Institute for Contemporary Art and its surrounding streetscape of red brick and asphalt. The work of Dominican American artist Firelei B�...