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A fire ripped through part of a restaurant next to the Hippodrome Theater in Jackson Ward early Thursday morning.

The Richmond Area Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which represents Central Virginia as a chartered member of the national SCLC, would like to express our disappointment with and determination to address the decision by the City of Richmond Electoral Board to close two satellite early voting offices for the upcoming 2023 November election.

The 32nd Annual Down Home Family Re- union will bring music, dance, stories, food, shopping and enrichment to Jackson Ward’s Abner Clay Park on Saturday, Aug. 19. Presented by the Elegba Folklore Society, this year’s cultural arts festival highlights “A Celebration of African American Folklife.”

Kijafa and Dylan McKinzie (Contributed photo/Sebastian Jimenez) A father and daughter from Henrico are the latest sneaker aficionados to be featured on Hibbett, Inc.’s Small-Town Sneakerhead digital series, a collection of short video profiles designed to celebrate sneaker culture. The newest episode of the series features Kijafa McKinzie (a 44-year-old sneaker collector, husband and father from

While the idea to make the retail corridor a pedestrian-only thoroughfare has been floated casually for years, it has gained some traction of late through an ongoing online survey conducted by the city.