Local nonprofits pose questions to City Council candidates at Diversity Richmond
The vast majority of candidates for Richmond City Council gathered beneath a single rainbow-colored disco ball last Tuesday night. The candidates were participating in a forum at Diversity Richmond, a nonprofit that serves the LGBTQ community. Twenty-five of the 28 total candidates on the ballot in November were seated in rows according to district on […]
Black Lives Matter takes a stand in the aftermath of Terrence Crutcher’s death
VCU students and Richmond-based activists responded to the police-shooting of another unarmed black man by organizing a protest on Tuesday evening on the Monroe Park Campus. As videos of last Friday’s shooting of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Terrence Crutcher circulated in mass and led to protests nationwide, VCU students met in Monroe Park and took part in […]
BOV approves building budgets
The VCU Board of Visitors approved budgets for three new university projects to expand the Allied Health Professions, School of Engineering and Rice Rivers Center. The university will finance $10.8 million of the total $87.3 million budget for the new building; $5.6 million is allocated to expanding the research capabilities of the School of Engineering. […]
On high alert: sexual assault and battery reports on both VCU campuses spiked this September
Members of the community reported a record number of sexual assault and battery cases on the Monroe Park and Medical campuses in September. Five sexual assaults and three sexual batteries occurred on the Monroe Park campus, in addition to another sexual assault and two batteries on the Medical campus, as of Sept. 27, according to VCU […]
Sam’s Take: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
“The Magnificent Seven” had colossal shoes to fill as a remake of the 1960 Western classic of the same name, which was itself a remake of one of the most influential films of all time, “Seven Samurai.” Luckily, director Antoine Fuqua opted to this tired plot into a serviceable action flick that never quite goes […]