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‘Wanton murder’ Breonna Taylor’s family attorney decries the decision of a Kentucky grand jury to absolve 2 white police officers in her shooting death, while charging a third with endangering Ms. Taylor’s neighbors Free Press wire report

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Two white policemen who fired shots inside the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a Black emergency medical technician, will not be prosecuted for her death because their use of force was justified, while a third police officer was charged with endangering her neighbors, Kentucky’s attorney general announced on Wednesday.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the Louisville grand jury’s decision at a news conference, as people broke into tears and protesters against racial injustice and police brutality assembled in the streets.

Protests were largely peaceful. But about a dozen people were arrested in one confrontation between hundreds of demonstrators and dozens of heavily armed law enforcement officers in riot gear just outside downtown Louisville.

Former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree, an offense that ranks at the lowest level of felony crime in Kentucky and carries a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison.

Benjamin Crump, a civil rights lawyer representing the Taylor family, said it was “outrageous and offensive” that none of the officers would be criminally charged with causing Ms. Taylor’s death.

The FBI is still investigating potential violations of federal law in the case.

Ms. Taylor, 26, was killed in front of her boyfriend shortly past midnight on March 13 inside her Louisville apartment after Detective Hankison and his two colleagues forced their way into her home with a search warrant.

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Lawrence Bryant/Reuters/TPX images of the day

A crying woman is comforted during demonstrations in Louisville, Ky., where protesters clashed with police following Wednesday’s announcement of the grand jury’s decision in the criminal case against police officers involved in the March fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

First day of early voting draws hundreds to city registrar’s new office

By George Copeland Jr.

“We are here to voice our concern for the need for change West Laburnum Avenue was in the administration,” Ms. buzzing with activity last Friday Banks said. “This one is the as roughly 700 people arrived most important election of my throughout the day at the Richlifetime.” mond Voter Registrar’s Office The day marked the first time to cast ballots on the first day Virginia voters have been able to of early voting in Virginia. vote early in an election, without People regularly filed in and having to offer an excuse for an out of the new headquarters for absentee ballot. It also served the city registrar that opened in as the culmination of months North Side in early September. of efforts by local and state Numerous campaign signs for officials and advocacy groups Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press presidential and state and loto ensure a safe and accessible cal candidates dotted the area U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, former general election in the midst of state secretary of education, mark their ballots last around the parking lot. the coronavirus pandemic and Inside the building, voters Friday at the Richmond Voter Registrar’s office on West federal disruptions to the U.S. Laburnum Avenue in North Side. They were among were greeted with floor markers roughly 700 voters who showed up for the first day of Postal Service that threatened reminding of social distancing, early, in-person voting for the general election. to hamper the timely return of an upbeat staff checking voters’ mailed-in ballots.

IDs and distributing ballots from behind safety screens and voting Voting locations throughout Virginia saw lines of hundreds booths that were immediately cleaned after each use to ensure Please turn to A4 health and safety for all.

Special parking spots were set aside for curbside voting for elderly and disabled voters who were aided by members of the registrar’s staff.

“Curbside — you can’t get any more convenient,” said Joyce Banks, a retired teacher who had driven her 95-year-old father, George A. Banks Sr., to the office so he could vote from the safety of her vehicle.

Richmond Free Press founders win prestigious George Mason Award

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Sound therapy Treasure Daily, 10, bundles up in the chilly outfield of The Diamond last Saturday and listens as her mother, Shanna Latia, conducts a sound therapy session during Project Yoga Richmond’s Saturday Salutations. The nonprofit sponsoring organization is dedicated to making yoga accessible and affordable to Richmonders. The next Saturday Salutations session is scheduled for 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at The Diamond on Arthur Ashe Boulevard.

The founders of the Richmond Free Press are being honored with one of Virginia journalism’s top awards.

Founding publisher, the late Raymond H. Boone, and his wife, Jean Patterson Boone, who has served as publisher since Mr. Boone’s death in June 2014, are the winners of the 2020 George Mason Award for outstanding contributions to the field, the Virginia Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists announced Wednesday.

The SPJ chapter cited the Boones for their leadership of the weekly newspaper they launched on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in 1992 and noted the publication has won numerous awards from the Virginia Press Association, the National Newspaper Publishers Association and other organizations.

In nominating the Boones, Jack White, who has covered

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Free COVID-19 testing Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations:

Date

Location

Thursday, Sept. 24, 9 to 11 a.m

Randolph Community Center 1415 Grayland Ave., West End

Rain date: Broad Rock Community Center on Sept. 29.

Tuesday, Sept. 29, 4 to 6 p.m.

Broad Rock Community Center 4165 Ferguson Lane, South Side

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. to noon

Saint Paul’s Baptist Church 4247 Creighton Road, Eastern Henrico

Friday, Oct. 2, 1 to 4 p.m.

Eastern Henrico Health Department 1400 N. Laburnum Ave. parking lot

Drive-thru testing. A limited number of tests are available.

Appointments are encouraged by calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Walk-up testing will be offered while test supplies last.

The Chesterfield County Health Department also is offering free COVID-19 testing at the following locations: Cornerstone Church, 10551 Chalkley Road, 1 to 2 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 24, and 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28.

Walmsley Boulevard United Methodist Church, 2950 Walmsley Blvd., 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29.

Beulah United Methodist Church, 6930 Hopkins Road, 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Testing is encouraged for those who have COVID-19 symptoms, and it is free for those who are uninsured or underinsured.

Some appointments will be reserved for walk-ups, but appointments are recommended by contacting the Chesterfield County Health Department at (804) 318-8207.

The Virginia Department of Health reported on Wednesday a total of 142,590 positive cases of COVID-19 statewide, along with 10,718 hospitalizations and 3,089 deaths. Officials reported a 5.5 percent positivity rate statewide.

According to the data, African-Americans comprised 25.5 percent of cases and 27 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 30.3 percent of the cases and 10.1 percent of deaths.

Drive-in homecoming worship brings church members together

By Lyndon German

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Gayle Clarke, a member of Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church, gets out of her car to listen to the sermon delivered by church pastor Dr. Alonza L. Lawrence during the church’s drive-in homecoming service last Sunday in the parking lot of Hovey Field at Virginia Union University.

For the past 27 Sundays, the Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church congregation has held worship service over Zoom and Bible study via conference calls.

The church’s pastor, Dr. Alonza L. Lawrence, has delivered his sermons to an empty sanctuary, which were recorded for broadcast on Zoom and Facebook.

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Deadline to register to vote: Oct. 13

The 15-story office building that will house the Virginia General Assembly is taking shape at 9th and Broad streets across from Richmond City Hall. Gilbane Construction expects to complete the work in 2021, in time for the 2022 legislative session. Work be-

Voting information The presidential election, as well as contests for U.S. Senate, Congress, Richmond City Council and Richmond School Board, will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

• Deadline to register to vote in November election: Tuesday, Oct. 13.

• Early in-person voting: Through Saturday, Oct. 31.

• Deadline to request an absentee ballot: Friday, Oct. 23.

Contact: Virginia Department of Elections, www.elections. virginia.gov or (800) 552-9745, for details on early in-person voting, voting by mail, requesting an absentee ballot to vote by mail and acceptable forms of ID to vote.

Richmond Early in-person voting: Richmond Voter Registrar’s Office, 2134 W. Laburnum Ave. — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

City Hall, 900 E. Broad St. in Downtown and Hickory Hill Community Center, 3000 E. Belt Blvd. in South Side — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, through Friday, Oct. 30.

All three locations open for early voting 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 31.

Details: (804) 646-5950 or www.richmondgov.com/ registrar/ Henrico County Early in-person voting: Henrico Western G ove r n m e n t C e n t e r, Voter Registrar’s Office, Administration Building Annex Room 105, 4305 E. Parham Road — 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Henrico Eastern Government Center, Room 100, 3820 Nine Mile Road — 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Both locations open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, 17, 24 and 31.

Details: (804) 501-4347 or henrico.us/registrar/

Chesterfield County Early in-person voting: C h e s t e r f i e l d Vo t e r Registrar’s Office, 9848 Lori Road — 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Beginning Monday, Oct. 19, four satellite locations open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

T h ey a r e M e a d ow d a l e Library, 4301 Meadowdale Blvd.; LaPrade Library, 9000 Hull Street Road; Nor th Courthouse Road Library, 325 Courthouse Road; and Ettrick-Matoaca Library, 4501 River Road.

All five locations open for early voting 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 31.

Details: (804) 748-1471 or www.chesterfield.gov/ Registrar Hanover County Early in-person voting: Hanover County G ove r n m e n t C o m p l ex , Wickham Building, 7497 County Complex Road — 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 31.

Details: (804) 365-6080 or www.hanovercounty. gov/365/voting

GRTC running free shuttle service to city’s new Voter Registrar’s Office GRTC is operating free hourly shuttles to help people who want to vote early to reach the new Richmond Voter Registrar’s Office at 2134 W. Laburnum Ave. Regular bus service stops about a half-mile short of the office.

The new shuttle service, which will stop outside the Laburnum Avenue building, began Wednesday and uses smaller vans.

GRTC stated the vans will operate hourly between 7:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Monday through Friday through Oct. 30.

The shuttle service also will be available hourly from 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 31, when early voting also will be offered at Laburnum Avenue, The shuttles will pick up and drop off passengers at 9th and Marshall streets on the north side of City Hall, and at Broad and Robinson streets on the north side of the street by the Science Museum of Virginia, GRTC stated.

The city is contributing funds to enable GRTC to cover the cost of the free service, the bus company stated.

CARE van customers also can use that service to get to the Registrater’s Office. –JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

gan three years ago with the demolition of the former office building. The project is part of a $300 million state investment in Capitol Square that includes the renovation of Old City Hall and construction of a parking deck on the east side of the new General Assembly Building.

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Hanover County School Board stalls on new names for Confederate schools

By George Copeland Jr.

The former Stonewall Jackson Middle School and Lee-Davis High School will remain unnamed for a few more weeks after arguments and criticisms led the Hanover County School Board to delay the renaming until at least October.

The board initially was set to approve the new names – Mechanicsville Middle School and Twin Rivers High School – at its Sept. 16 meeting. The names were recommended by a School Renaming Committee after weeks of public input following a board vote to change the Confederate names.

However, disputes over the recommended names proved so contentious at the meeting that neither name was approved.

Dr. Carol Cash, a retired former principal of the former Lee-Davis High School and Hanover High School and a member of the renaming committee, detailed the rationale behind selecting the two names,

neither of which received the most votes in a community poll.

Residents favored Mechanicsville for the high school’s name, but “the committee ignored them,” said School Board member Norman K. Sulser of the Cold Harbor District. He pushed the board to approve Mechanicsville for the high school’s new name and decide on a new name for the middle school at a later time.

Summer Miller, a senior at the former Lee-Davis High, was critical of how long the renaming process has taken. She said the lack of a name for the school has created a roadblock for her applications to colleges and for scholarships. She urged the board to approve the names during last week’s meeting.

“I’m asking you, please, to move it along,” Miss Miller said. “You’re wasting seniors’ futures.”

A Hanover County Public Schools spokesman said in an email that a temporary remedy to that problem is in progress.

Special prosecutor assigned in Confederate statue removal probe

By Jeremy Lazarus

A special grand jury soon will be convened in Richmond.

The purpose: To determine if Mayor Levar M. Stoney legally used emergency authority to spend $1.8 million in taxpayer dollars to remove 11 city-owned Confederate statues in early July.

Chief Richmond Circuit Court Judge Joi Jeter Taylor on Sept. 18 named Timothy Martin, Augusta County commonwealth’s attorney, as a special prosecutor for a probe into the mayor’s spending on the removal.

Mayor Stoney has said everything was completely above board.

Mr. Martin will take on the probe in place of Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin, who stepped aside and requested a special prosecutor after 2nd District City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray, a top challenger to the mayor’s re-election bid, requested an investigation of the mayor’s actions.

City surplus larger than reported

By Jeremy Lazarus

It turns out that Richmond’s surplus is actually $7.9 million larger than reported, Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration has confirmed.

While the mayor touted a surprising $13.75 million surplus for the 2019-20 fiscal year that ended June 30, he did not mention the additional $7.9 million that he wants to put into two virtually untouchable savings accounts, known as the revenue stabilization fund and the unassigned fund balance.

With the additional money, the surplus amounts to around $21.6 million, according to the administration’s financial information.

Under a City Council policy, the city’s “rainy day” fund, which comprises the two accounts, needs to total about $125 million — the equivalent of 16.67 percent of the approved $747 million general fund budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year.

But this year, the Stoney administration is seeking to push the “rainy day” fund total to $132 million, and the justification from administration members is to impress Wall Street credit agencies. The administration’s goal is to boost the city’s already high AA+ credit rating to AAA, the best.

City Council could consider reallocating some of the money for other priorities prior to Oct. 31. The council is set to discuss use of only $1.37 million, or 10 percent of the announced $13.75 million surplus, next Monday during its informal

Mr. Wack

“Staff at the school and in the division are working to update organizations and institutions with the temporary name of HCPS High School so that students can move forward with their college and scholarship applications,” the spokesman stated.

Robert N. Barnette, president of the Hanover County Branch NAACP, noted how the concerns of the county’s AfricanAmerican population were absent from the meeting discussions. But he said the organization, ultimately, has no issue with the new names recommended by the committee.

“We’re just hoping they’ll get through this issue, rename the schools and move on because they certainly have a lot more to do than argue about the names of the schools,” Mr. Barnette said.

A vote on the new school names likely will be held during the board’s Oct. 13 meeting. The board said it will gather more public input before then.

session.

No council member has announced plans to consider using a larger share of the small mountain of unexpended dollars Richmond amassed in the face of COVID-19 and reduced income from lodging and

meals taxes.

Evidence of the push to boost savings is found in a Sept. 15 fund balance report submitted to City Council’s Finance and Economic Development Committee. The fund balance is money that was not spent during the last fiscal year.

According to the report, the total of unspent dollars amounts to $160.9 million, up $9 million from the previous year.

Some of that already is earmarked, including $15.8 million that is set aside to repay loans to build the three new school buildings and to pay nearly $2 million in bills that the city owes but to did not pay prior to June 30.

Under a policy the council put in place in 2017, 50 percent of the announced $13.75 million surplus is to go into the revenue reserve, boosting that from around $14 million in fiscal 2018-19 to $20 million.

That’s just $2.4 million shy of the $22.4 million needed to meet council’s goal of a 3 percent revenue reserve.

Meanwhile, the unassigned fund bal-

ance, according to the administration would total $112.45 million, up about $900,000 from fiscal 2018-19, or about $10 million more than is needed to meet the council’s goal of 13.67 percent of the general fund budget.

If $2.4 million were shifted from the unassigned fund balance to the revenue stabilization fund and the unassigned fund balance were reduced to the $102 million needed to meet the council goal, that would free $7.9 million for other uses.

City Finance Director John B. Wack said that math is correct, but he said such a change would reverse the growth of the unassigned fund balance in recent years.

He said rating agencies most closely watch the unassigned fund balance, which basically neither the mayor nor the council can touch. He said that fund has been growing annually and added that the administration would oppose reversing course and reducing it to around $102 million, the minimum needed to meet council policy.

He said rating agencies pay less attention to the revenue stabilization fund, which also is almost untouchable. It can be tapped in an emergency, such as a damaging hurricane, but only if the mayor presents a plan that council approves to replace the money within six months.

However, S&P Global Ratings, in it is report on the city strengths and weaknesses in maintaining an AA+ rating on its bonds, noted the money in both reserves in praising the city’s financial management.

As Mrs. McEachin has noted, state law outlines who can undertake a criminal investigation of a local elected official. The law allows the governor, the state attorney general and a special prosecutor to take on such probes and to seek investigative help from the State Police.

Mr. Martin would make the decision on how to proceed, though he has not yet announced his next step.

Mrs. McEachin A special grand jury, whose work would be shrouded in secrecy, could request state assistance and also call witnesses.

According to the mayor’s office, Mayor Stoney took the Confederate statue-removal action in his role as the city’s director of emergency management amid the recent demonstrations in which some participants had pulled downed four city-owned statues.

Gov. Ralph S. Northam had declared a state of emergency in early June after protesters went on a rampage and broke out windows at several businesses in and near Downtown during the protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. City Council on June 8 recognized the emergency and authorized Mayor Stoney, as director of emergency management during the state of emergency, to deal with it.

The mayor’s office has said that the council action triggered state laws that provide the director of emergency management with authority to act without following certain other laws, including those involving procurement.

At Mayor Stoney’s request, Gov. Northam later extended the emergency order into the first week of July.

By that time, the Stoney administration had awarded without notice the $1.8 million contract to remove the city-owned statues to Team Henry, a Black-owned company of contractor Devon Henry.

Since then, City Council approved the removal of the statues using a state law that went into effect July 1. The council has put 10 of the 12 city-owned Confederate statues up for sale. The fate of two Confederate statues, and one of Christopher Columbus, remains unresolved as neither the council nor the Mayor’s Office has proposed any action on them.

Concern about the mayor’s spending arose after Bacon’s Rebellion, a political blog site, first reported the contract award to Mr. Henry and noted that the businessman had contributed $450 to Mayor Stoney’s 2016 campaign.

Mayor Stoney has denied that the contribution had any influence.

Mayor Stoney and his press secretary, Jim Nolan, have insisted that Mr. Henry was the only contractor willing to take on the statue removal work. Mr. Henry subcontracted the work to an out-of-state firm that has a track record in statue placement and removal. Richmond sculptor Paul DiPasquale was hired to supervise the removal.

Mrs. McEachin cited Mr. Henry’s involvement when she stepped aside. She stated that Mr. Henry also contributed about $250 about 10 years ago to a state Senate campaign of her husband, U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin.

She stated that she has taken no position on the case and sought the appointment of a special prosecutor to avoid any appearance of a conflict.

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Wilder symposium looks back and forward

By George Copeland Jr.

It was a day of celebration and reflection last Thursday as members of the public gathered virtually to recognize the life and accomplishments of former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder.

The daylong event was the 2020 Wilder Symposium, sponsored by Virginia Union University and the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, and included panelists and discussions that repeatedly stressed the importance of having accountable leaders and an engaged community.

The event marked the 30th anniversary of Mr. Wilder being sworn in as America’s first elected African-American governor.

Mr. Wilder provided a keynote address and participated in a question-and-answer session that mixed nostalgia with criticism of the current moment in America. While there were discussions of Mr. Wilder’s personal and political achievements, Mr. Wilder also spoke on the influence of corporate money on the nation’s political duopoly, the need to address inequality, health care

Mr. Wilder

disparity and education, and the importance of the public’s effort to address these issues now and in the future.

“The problems didn’t come to bear when George Floyd was killed. They were there before,” said Mr. Wilder, discussing racial controversies he views as symptoms of wider problems that have gone ignored by those in power. “We need to demand more of those persons who say that they’re there

to represent us.”

Moderated by VUU student government President Bobbie Newell and closing remarks from VUU Dean Ted Ritter, a panel explored diverse methods of civic engagement for the young, underserved and marginalized.

“Civic engagement is, to me, the foundation of change,” said Whitney Brown of VCU, pointing to protests, voting, nonprofits and social media as examples of the methods people have used that “lead to or can lead to policy change.”

Panelists discussing the 2020 election talked about ensuring voting access and security, along with learning from the mistakes of the 2016 presidential election. There was an undercurrent of concern for the upcoming presidential election and the impact of its outcome.

“America is in real trouble and this election is important,” said Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, noting the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, mass unemployment and foreclosures and the lack of support on the federal level on the country’s future.

That tone ultimately colored much of the symposium. It was a day where Mr. Wilder’s joy at his upcoming 90th birthday in January also carried a reminder of great responsibility.

“Look how fortunate I am to even be standing here today, and look how many people unfortunately never got a chance to breathe an air of freedom,” Mr. Wilder said. “You and I have an opportunity to make certain we reach out, continuing to demand what’s right, to criticize what’s wrong and to fearlessly face the future.”

Gov. Northam announces $300M plan to help colleges through COVID-19

By Jeremy Lazarus

Gov. Ralph S. Northam announced Tuesday a two-year $300 million plan to help Virginia’s public colleges and universities weather the financial crisis the COVID-19 pandemic has created — without taxpayers having to foot the bill.

Under the governor’s twopart plan, the state’s higher education system, including community colGov. Northam leges, would not have to repay state-issued debt on buildings, dorms and other infrastructure for the next two years, helping them to avoid default due to campus closures and enrollment declines.

In addition, the governor announced that higher-education debt issued through the Treasury Board of Virginia and the Virginia College Building Authority would be refinanced at the current low interest rates, just as many homeowners are doing.

While the loans would be extended two years to account for the moratorium on repayment, the lower rates would

mean less interest and smaller annual payments.

State Secretary of Finance Aubrey Lane produced a list of potential savings for each of the 15 state-supported institutions and the state Community

College System.

According to the list, Virginia State University would save $12.8 million, while Norfolk State University would save $8.2 million and Virginia Commonwealth

University would save $23.1 million.

The plan drew cheers from Democratic leaders of the General Assembly’s money committees, Delegate Luke Torian of Prince William

County, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Janet Howell of Fairfax, chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

“Helping public colleges and universities restructure

their debt obligations will allow them to focus their resources on the pressing needs they face right now,” Delegate Torian stated in supporting the governor’s actions.

Venture Richmond pulls plug on BLM street painting

By Jeremy Lazarus

Forget Black Lives Matter being painted in huge yellow letters in the 800 block of East Grace Street next to Capitol Square.

Venture Richmond pulled the plug Monday after initially gaining city approval to match what is being done in other cities. Muralist Hamilton Glass had been selected to lead the initiative.

Anedra Bourne, deputy executive director of the Downtown booster group and the person spearheading the project, sought to explain the decision in an email Monday to the Free Press.

“We were eager to show support with this mural for the work that has taken place around social justice initiatives, and we remain committed

to that,” Ms. Bourne stated. summer cleared the way for the street “However, the time that the overall painting, were advised in a closed process has taken since our initial door briefing that authorizing even a efforts in June, combined with the temporary painting like this one would many stipulations attached require the commission to to such a mural, has led approve other painting in or us to understand that our on public spaces that carried Downtown community is messages the city might not best served by shifting our want to embrace resources to other areas.”

For example, the Free The initiative initially Press was told that a private drew a mostly enthusiasattorney notified City Hall tic response, but support that if the Black Lives Matbegan to diminish behind ter painting went forward, Mrs. Bourne the scenes as Venture Richhe would seek permission mond and city officials learned about to install murals supporting President the unintended legal consequences of Trump’s re-election on city property allowing a public street to be used for and would sue the city for violation a message some consider politically of his First Amendment rights if his charged. proposal was rejected.

Members of the Richmond Plan“We were told that you couldn’t do ning Commission, which earlier this for one if you were not prepared to do

for others,” a city official told the Free Press on condition of anonymity.

While the decision drew expressions of disappointment from supporters, others were supportive of Venture Richmond’s action to kill the project.

In a social media post, G. Joseph Myers stated that the painting that was supposed to be positive would actually have been a negative for the movement.

“This proposal called for painting Black Lives Matter in a color associated with cowardice and for placing it on a street where it could be driven over, spit on and otherwise disrespected,” he wrote. “Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed and prevented this well-meaning but unfortunate project from going forward. BLM needs to be supported, not disrespected.”

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered as an agent of change Free Press staff, wire report

Jennifer Carroll Foy remembers the moment that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed her life.

Now a member of the Virginia General Assembly and a gubernatorial candidate, Delegate Carroll Foy, then 14 and a student at Petersburg High School, stated the moment came as she watched Justice Ginsburg deliver the landmark 1996 opinion eliminating the males-only admissions policy at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

“I heard Justice Ginsburg’s assertions that women are not inferior to men and that we can do all the things they can if given the opportunity,” the Prince William County Democrat stated.

“In response, I stood up and said, ‘Well, I’m going to VMI. I’m just as smart, just as strong, just as capable as any man in this room,’ ” Delegate Carroll Foy recalled.

She said she went through the rigors of the program like any male recruit and credits VMI “for making me stronger.”

“VMI taught me grit, perseverance and how to be level headed and how to work alongside anyone to get the job done. And If I had graduated high school before 1996, my opportunities would not have been the same,” she said.

To Delegate Carroll Foy, Justice Ginsburg ranks as “one of the greatest justices the Supreme Court has ever had. She fought to ensure that women like me could have the same rights as others.”

That view has echoed across the country following Justice Ginsburg’s death Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Local, state and national tributes continue to pour in for Justice Ginsburg, a recognized champion of civil and human rights. She was 87 and succumbed to pancreatic cancer, which she bravely fought while continuing her service

on the court.

Justice Ginsburg had served on the court for 27 years. She was only the second woman and first Jewish female on the nation’s highest court.

“Her record on racial justice issues was second to none,” wrote Kristen Clark, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, pointing to Justice Ginsburg’s powerful dissent in the Alabama case that struck down a key portion of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act and largely ended Justice Department oversight.

Ms. Clark stated that Justice Ginsburg foretold that the decision “would open the door to widespread voter suppression.”

Justice Ginsburg’s writing, Ms. Clark stated, inspired “countless women, lawyers and advocates to resiliently fight for our country to live up to the ideals enshrined in our Constitution.”

As a member of the court, Justice Ginsburg also took part in legalizing gay marriage, upholding abortion rights and overturning government rules that forced the mentally disabled to live in institutions instead of enabling hem to live in community settings.

Even as admirers mourned her loss, President Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate began pushing to name her replacement. Opponents have described the GOP move as a clear and cynical reversal from four years ago when the same senators blocked then-President Obama from replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the grounds that no appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court should be made during a presidential election year.

The rush to replace Justice Ginsburg is underway as her body lays in repose under the portico at the top of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court for members of the public to

pay their respects. Preparations also were made for her body to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol later this week.

Justice Ginsburg is to be buried next to her late husband, Martin D. Ginsburg, at Arlington Cemetery on Tuesday, Sept. 29.

Hailed as a “prophet for justice” and as a cultural and legal icon, Justice Ginsburg used her time as a lawyer and judge to stem white male domination and equalize conditions for both sexes.

Having experienced gender discrimination, the Brooklyn, N.Y., daughter of a furrier and garment factory worker was determined to usher in change. Long before President Clinton appointed her to the nation’s highest court in 1993, she already had become a towering figure in that area of the law.

A graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University Law School, the young married mother and then-Rutgers University law school professor won a huge U.S. Supreme Court victory in 1971. That win enabled women to use the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause to attack gender discrimination in state laws on a par with civil rights lawsuits that had used that tactic to attack racial bigotry.

The breakthrough she engineered and argued involved the 1971 case of Reed v. Reed in which the U.S. Supreme Court cited gender discrimination for the first time in striking down an Idaho law favoring men to administer wills and estates as unconstitutional.

A year later, as the first female law professor at Columbia University Law School, she co-founded the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and also became its general counsel.

By 1974 under her leadership, the project and other elements of the ACLU were involved in 300 lawsuits attacking gender discrimination

School Board moves ahead on day care plans

By Ronald E. Carrington

The Richmond School Board is moving ahead with plans for five schools to open for day care for families that will be provided by three outside organizations.

Superintendent Jason Kamras presented a draft memorandum of understanding to the School Board on Monday night that would be used with three day care providers — Peter Paul Development Center, the Greater Richmond YMCA and Richmond Behavioral Health Authority.

The MOU, drafted by RPS attorney Jonnell Lilly, outlines the terms, conditions and responsibilities for the school system as well as for the organizations.

According to the draft, RPS will not assume any additional liabilities or run the day care programs that will have 100 slots in each of five schools — Huguenot High, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and Linwood Holton, Miles Jones and Blackwell elementary schools.

“If we can get consensus, the district, within in the next two weeks, may be able to get the child care centers up and running in earnest,” Mr. Kamras said. “I would like

to settle the matter and not delay another two weeks before taking further steps.”

School Board Vice Chair Cheryl Burke, 7th District, thanked Ms. Lilly for including in the MOU the board’s most important items. Those items included that priority be given to the children whose parents are considered essential workers; that two-thirds of the day care slots be made available at no cost to families who qualify for Medicaid or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits; that RPS arrange for breakfast and lunch distribution for the children; that the registration process include diversity; and that the organizations be responsible for daily coronavirus testing of children in the program, as well as for all cleaning and any health liabilities.

“We (RPS) have a lot of children needing that support,” Ms. Burke said as she and the board agreed to move forward.

In other matters, the RPS administration proposed a shorter virtual school day with less screen time in response to parents’ and teachers’ concerns about children’s health with the online learning.

The School Board heard from teachers, parents and students via letters and Zoom about students’ mental exhaustion caused by prolonged virtual learning, particularly for youngsters in elementary school.

With all classes starting at 9:15 a.m., Mr. Kamras proposed changes to include a shorter day for kindergarten through second grade, with on-screen instruction with teachers only in the morning followed by small group and individual work in the afternoon ending by 2:30 p.m.

Under the proposal, grades 3 through 5 would have a similar schedule, with two or more 10-minute morning breaks and a lunch and recess period from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The day would end at 3:30 p.m.

Middle school students’ six period schedule would be reduced to four, with a 15-minute break in the morning and the afternoon. The day would end at 4 p.m.

High school students would also have four periods — 90 minute each — split into on-screen and off-screen portions.

The day would end at 4 p.m.

RPS plans to send surveys about the proposed schedule change to families later this week.

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COVID-19 pandemic – a drive-in church service in the parking lot of Virginia Union University’s Hovey Field.

It was the first time in months that Dr. Lawrence had an opportunity to deliver his sermon in front of an audience, although instead of applause, his message was praised by flashing lights and car horns.

Still, it was good to preach in front of a crowd again, he said.

“It felt so good, man! Oh, it felt so good,” Dr. Lawrence said at the conclusion of the worship service.

About 40 cars and SUVs — some with just a single person and others with families — lined up in three rows facing Dr. Lawrence, who preached from a stage set up in front. With him on the stage were three singers, two keyboardists, a drummer and a bassist. All the musicians wore masks. The choir members pulled down their masks when they began singing.

During the pandemic, the Moore Street congregation has adapted to worshipping at home together through a combination of prerecorded services, Bible study conference calls and Zoom get-togethers. According to Dr. Lawrence, about 50 households tune in for the online service every Sunday.

“The virtual thing is a little different, but it’s still a blessing,” he said. Worshipping via Zoom “allows us to see each other, to

spend time together before we show the recorded worship service and then spend time together afterward. So we’ve not lost the fellowship and we’ve had a consistent crowd to join us,” he said.

The congregation’s commitment to the church hasn’t wavered during the pandemic as even lifelong members, including 78-year-old Gloria Coleman, adapted to meeting over the phone and computer rather than in person.

But for Ms. Coleman, Sunday’s drive-in service was something special.

“During the pandemic, it has really been a struggle not being in the building.

But the people are the church,” said Ms. Coleman, who has been a member of the church since she was 8. “I am really excited about us doing this because, even though we’re in our cars, we get to see different people.”

For the first time in about six months, Ms. Coleman and others were able to see each other from their car windows. They listened to Dr. Lawrence preach and to Music Coordinator Shalimar Hickman-Fields leading gospel hymns. The congregation also sang “Happy Birthday” together, a third Sunday tradition to recognize those celebrating birthdays during the month.

“This is one of those lifetime congregations,” Mrs. Hickman-Fields said when asked when she became a member. “I’ve had the opportunity to work with other

churches, but there’s nothing like being at home.”

Mrs. Hickman-Fields said while she misses the sound of a full choir, she organized a small ensemble to perform at the homecoming celebration. The ensemble also performs for the church’s recorded services.

“Because we’re an ensemble, it doesn’t feel different from the performance perspective,” Mrs. Hickman-Fields said. “What’s really different for me is that we don’t have all the voices. We’ve struggled with picking the songs that we can sing with just three or four voices. The fellowship is what we really miss.”

On Sunday, attendees joined with the ensemble in singing the hymns and the birthday chorus from their cars. Those who attended also received gift bags with candy and other goodies to commemorate the occasion. Others still had the option to participate by Zoom and Facebook live.

“We still recognize that, in this day in time, we will never be able to go back to not using the technology,” Dr. Lawrence said. “So our commitment has to be to maintain the Zoom or streaming or whatever it is. We can’t shy away from it.”

During the service, Dr. Lawrence thanked the congregation members for their kindness and commitment to the church and asked members to anticipate similar socially distanced events in the future.

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of socially distanced citizens on the first day, with voters weathering long wait times in Northern Virginia and rainy skies in Virginia Beach to cast their ballots.

According to Richmond Voter Registrar Kirk Showalter, only the first day saw any lines form to vote, as people waited for the office to open at 8 a.m. on Sept. 18.

Ms. Showalter said the first day of early voting went very well, with around 650 to 700 voters daily since then.

Election officials throughout Metro Richmond also reported positive turnout for their

first days of early voting, painting a picture of a smooth electoral process for voters.

In Richmond, the day also was an opportunity for City Council candidates AllanCharles Chipman and Katherine Jordon to campaign and meet voters outside the building, alongside local representatives for the top of the ballot presidential Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, former state secretary of education, who live in Richmond, arrived early last Friday to vote.

“I really like early voting and I have long supported broadening the access to

voting,” Sen. Kaine told a small group of reporters outside the building. “The greater the participation, the more true we are to our small ‘d’ democratic principles. And I think the level of turnout this year is going to be really helpful.”

Despite being located past a narrow street nestled between a Richmond railyard and an intersection currently undergoing heavy renovation, Ms. Showalter said voters apparently had no trouble finding the new registrar’s office. This ease of access likely was aided by community efforts by New Life Deliverance Tabernacle, Victory Travel and others to get voters to the office.

that affected men as well as women.

For example, Justice Ginsburg won U.S. Supreme Court decisions that deemed unconstitutional overwhelmingly male juries and struck down Social Security rules that barred men who lost their wives from receiving widower benefits on par with women who lost their husbands.

Known for her hard work and her expertise on civil procedure, Justice Ginsburg first went on the bench in 1980 when President Carter appointed her, with Senate approval, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Through the years, her dissents provided grounds for change. A prime example is the Ledbetter v. Goodyear case in which she wrote a scathing rebuke after the court threw out a lawsuit in which a woman fought to obtain the higher pay awarded to her male counterparts.

Justice Ginsberg’s dissent in that case led the Congress to pass a law requiring employers to provide equal pay for equal work, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. It was the first legislation President Obama signed into law after taking office in 2009.

In an appreciation the Supreme Court issued, Justice Ginsberg was cited as “slow, steady and calculated” in her legal approach attacking specific areas of discrimination and violations of women’s rights, but leaving room for the Congress, state legislators and local governments to usher in major social change.

Though she was notably part of the court’s liberal wing, she made friends across the legal spectrum.

Archconservative Justice Clarence Thomas, who regularly opposed Justice Ginsburg’s views, wrote a heartfelt condolence: “As outstanding as she was as a judge, she was an even better colleague — unfailingly gracious, thoughtful and civil.”

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The two other officers, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, were not charged because they were justified under Kentucky law in returning fire after Mr. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot at them, Mr. Cameron said. Sgt. Mattingly was wounded in the thigh, Mr. Cameron said.

“There is no doubt that this is a gut-wrenching, emotional case,” Mr. Cameron said at the news conference.

Mr. Cameron, a Republican and the state’s first Black attorney general, is a protégé of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky who has been tagged by some as the senator’s heir apparent. His was also one of 20 names on President Trump’s list to fill a future U.S. Supreme Court vacancy.

Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, called on Mr. Cameron to release all evidence in the case so that the public could better understand the outcome of the investigation.

“Everyone can and should be informed,” Gov. Beshear said.

“Those feeling frustration, hurt—they deserve to know more.”

Detective Hankison fired his weapon 10 times. Some of the bullets traveled through Ms. Taylor’s apartment into adjacent Apartment No. 3, where a man, a pregnant woman and a child were at home.

There was “no conclusive” evidence that any of Detective Hankison’s bullets struck Ms. Taylor, Mr. Cameron said. The grand jury indicted him for wantonly placing the neighbors in danger, Mr. Cameron said.

Protest organizers expressed frustration at the outcome, with some people weeping in the street. Hundreds of demonstrators wound their way out of downtown Louisville’s Jefferson Square Park, dubbed by protesters as “Injustice Square,” and marched through the streets chanting, “Out of the homes, into the streets!”

In a suburban area at the edge of downtown, protesters threw water bottles at police, who responded by firing pepper balls into the crowd. Pushing and shoving ensued between the two sides, and some demonstrators broke windows of businesses in the area.

“If Brett Hankison’s behavior was wanton endangerment to people in neighboring apartments, then it should have been wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor’s apartment, too,” Mr. Crump said. “In fact, it should have been ruled wanton murder!”

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mond Free Press, wrote: “For decades, the name Boone has been synonymous with the best traditions of the American press. …

“Ray’s wife Jean was his partner and ally in (their) relentless crusade and, after his death, she became (the newspaper’s) unflinching leader. Now their children – Ray Boone Jr. and Regina Boone, one of America’s best photojournalists – are helping to carry the torch as the Free Press pursues its mission of giving voice to the voiceless. I can’t think of a family whose dedication and sacrifice better exemplify the values enshrined in the First Amendment.”

The nomination also received support from SPJ member Frances Broaddus-Crutchfield, a retired Richmond journalist who previously freelanced for the Richmond Free Press, wrote that the late Mr. Boone was “a champion for truth, justice, accuracy and correct grammar. He forced journalism to do its job and do it well.”

Mrs. Boone was surprised and pleased by the award.

“I am humbled and delightfully grateful to learn that Ray and I have been selected to receive the prestigious George Mason Award,” Mrs. Boone said in a statement.

“As we know, Ray was the guiding force in creating the Free Press. I enthusiastically joined him in this venture and so did an incredibly talented and dedicated staff, many of whom have been a part of the Free Press team for more than 25 years.

“I am also so fortunate to have two talented adult children who continue to contribute to the success of the Free Press from when it was just an idea.

“This is an honor for all of us.”

Mr. Boone began his newspaper career as a reporter at the Suffolk News-Herald in the late 1950s. He later ran the now defunct Richmond Afro-American and Planet before moving to Baltimore to serve as vice president of the Afro-American Newspaper Group. He also taught journalism at Howard University and served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.

He and his wife returned to Richmond to begin the Free Press 29 years ago.

The Boones are the 55th recipients of the award that the Virginia SPJ chapter created in 1964 and named for the principal author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the model for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.

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It's the place you become; where you're uplifted by past generations. It's your family's history and newfound family's future. It's your HBCU. That’s why XŜnity recognizes the legacy, community, and importance of HBCUs. And, now that gatherings are a little diŞerent, it's time to reconnect to the culture. Just say, "HBCU," into your XŜnity Voice Remote to experience more HBCU.

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Mayor Stoney proposes 5 new city parks for South Side

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Thirteen years ago, City Hall spent about $400,000 to tear down the decrepit Madison Arms apartments at Lynhaven Avenue and Drake Street in South Side.

At the time, city officials touted plans to market the 17.6-acre property through which Broad Rock Creek flows for a new development that would bring jobs or other opportunities to the area.

But nothing has happened since, and now Mayor Levar M. Stoney wants to turn the vacant land into a new city park, with the potential for a portion of the property to be used for affordable housing.

He used the property as a backdrop Sept. 14 as he announced that he would ask City Council to approve converting the Lynhaven land and four other vacant city properties into new additions to the city’s park inventory.

City Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell, who in 2007 led the push to obtain funding to demolish the apartments and create prime development property, is thrilled that something finally is happening.

“This is good news for the 8th District,” said Ms. Trammell, who also is happy Mayor Stoney plans two other new green spaces in the district she represents. They are a 1-acre parcel at 620 Rosemont Road and a separate 2-acre property at Ernest Road and Caldwell Avenue.

Mayor Stoney also proposed two parks in the 9th District that Councilman Michael J. Jones represents: A 7.6-acre property at the Reedy Creek wetland at Beaufont Hills and Lamar drives, and

2.7 acres of wooded land adjacent to the Hioaks water tower at 200 Hioaks Road.

In all, the mayor said the five parcels would include about 31 acres of new green space in a step toward fulfilling his January vow to put a city park within a 10-minute walk of everyone’s home.

It remains uncertain how much city money will be invested to improve the new green space if City Council endorses the proposal given the ongoing struggles of the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to gain sufficient funding to maintain and improve the existing inventory of parks, recreation and other public facilities it manages.

The extra 31 acres of parkland would add to the 20 acres the city Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities has gained since the mayor first took office in 2017, the mayor’s office stated. According to the Trust for Public Land, Richmond currently sets aside about 6 percent of its 63 square miles for parks, well below the national urban average of 15 percent of local public property being devoted to green space.

“The benefits of green space are irrefutable and unmatched,” Mayor Stoney said, but he cited TPL data indicating that lower-income and largely African-American and Latino areas of the city have been shortchanged and tend to be hotter in the summer because of fewer and smaller parks.

The mayor blamed systemic racism for ensuring larger parks in predominantly white neighborhoods and added, “We have a chance to right that wrong and we’re starting with these five parks.”

Photos by Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press

As Mayor Levar M. Stoney speaks at a news conference Sept. 14 about the plan to create five new parks in South Side, Javon Davis, 10, steers a scooter as his brother, Carnell Massenburg, 8, runs alongside him near the mayor’s event at Lynhaven and Dallas avenues. The youngsters, who were taking a break from their virtual school sessions, liked the idea of a having a park near their home and said they can’t wait to play there. “The benefits of green spaces are irrefutable and unmatched, and it’s clear that not everyone in this city has been afforded those benefits,” Mayor Stoney said during the announcement. “It’s our job to intentionally correct that injustice.”

Children should be included on your 2020 Census form—and not just children related to you, but any kids living at your address most of the time. When babies and children are included, the programs that support them get the funding they need.

Count your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, foster kids, and the children of any friends or relatives staying with you, even if it’s only temporary. Babies count, too!

Even if they’re still in the hospital, as long as they were born by April 1, 2020, make sure the person completing the Census for your address includes them on the form.

For more information about the 2020 Census, visit 2020Census.gov or call 844-330-2020. #2020Census #CountAllKids

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Kayla and Sean are active and healthy – even with asthma!

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Democrats in the U.S. Senate need to throw away any rule book, take off the gloves and get ready to rumble.

With the death last week of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the fight is on for her replacement and it’s going to be nasty.

If President Trump and his slim majority of GOP sycophants in the Senate get their way, they will ramrod through the confirmation process the next ultraconservative Supreme Court justice. With the court then stacked with conservative justices, we can kiss goodbye many of the legal protections that President Trump and the Republicans have been itching to gut — Obamacare, abortion rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights and immigrant rights, just to name a few.

Throughout her legal and judicial career, including her 27 years on the nation’s highest court, Justice Ginsburg affirmed women’s rights. Because of her work, women can serve on juries, have credit in their own name and are protected from losing their job because of pregnancy. She pushed for equal pay for women and opened educational opportunities for women in writing the high court’s opinion in 1996 striking down state-supported Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy.

She has consistently supported abortion rights and voting rights, even writing the dissent in the seminal Shelby County v. Holder voting rights case in which the court’s conservative majority rolled back protections outlined in the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act that now allow states with a history of racially motivated voter suppression to change their voting procedures without any federal oversight.

She was considered by many as the last defense for social justice on a court that already has been stamped with Trump’s regressive imprimatur with the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch in April 2017 and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018.

When President Obama sought to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the February 2016 death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, he was blocked.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to hold confirmation hearings for President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, saying it was too close to the November presidential election.

That was 11 months before the November 2016 election. But the rationale used to block President Obama has suddenly evaporated, with Sen. McConnell and his sidekick Sen. Lindsey Graham rushing to confirm a new justice less than six weeks before a presidential election.

Yes, the Republicans are hypocrites. But that’s not news, and the Democrats crying about it won’t change the situation.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the progressive minds in this nation need to understand the conventional rules are gone in this high-stakes political quest to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat. They need to strategize mightily and come up with action plans to block Trump’s nominee, who is expected to be announced by week’s end.

For too long, Democrats have expected logic and fair fights from the Republicans. But that has never happened in the age of Trump, which is ruled by lies, deception and brute force.

What’s needed is pressure – hard pressure – on the Republican senators such as Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and at least two others.

But we should not stop there. It is time to draw the line. We, the voters, should not accept any more lies and gaslighting from conservatives with their toxic agendas. We also do not accept our Democratic representatives allowing the hateful Republican agendas to be normalized.

Democrats need to stand up or get out. They need to show the nation they will defend democracy, not surrender it. Otherwise we will find our nation returned to the old days that President Trump has longed for.

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Nothing Nobel about Trump Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

I am uncertain as to what circumstances led him to this conclusion, but I am certain that as humanity progresses, we humans often become too big for our britches.

History provides a litany of advancements that offer functional results yet fall short of their intended purpose. Take the example of the guillotine, named after French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. For years, European executions were tortuous affairs. Realizing that executions were not designed as torture, but to end life, French thinkers set about to design a humane device of execution. Thus, in 1789 came the guillotine, an instrument that rendered an instant, “humane” death to its victim. Because it ended life painlessly and instead of reducing death, its use was extended to less serious, petty crimes.

Distressed by U.S. Civil War casualties, Dr. Richard J. Gatling created the Gatling Gun, one of the first rapid, sustained fire weapons. Dr. Gatling envisioned his weapon as reducing the size of armies and the number of deaths by combat and disease. It was to demonstrate the futility of war. Despite his intent, Dr. Gatling’s gun added lethal efficiency to the battlefield without

Dr. E. Faye Williams demonstrating the desired futility of war.

Alfred Bernard Nobel, a native Swede, was a noted inventor. He is famous for his invention of dynamite and other explosives. Mr. Nobel’s invention was instrumental in facilitating construction and destroying obstacles or existing structures.

He amassed an extreme fortune with his dynamite and the other 355 patents in electrochemistry, optics, biology and physiology. Mr. Nobel directed that, upon his death, 94 percent of his wealth should fund an endowment to honor achievements in the areas of physical science, chemistry, medical science, physiology, literary work and

service toward peace.

It appears that of the three examples of questionable technology, that of Alfred Nobel is the most noble. Yes, because of the creation of destructive power, we honor and finance, with the Nobel prizes, efforts to promote and enhance the quality of life for humanity.

For the casual observer of the Nobel awards, probably the most notable is the Nobel Peace Prize. Among U.S. luminaries who have received this award are Jane Addams, Ralph Bunche, Gen. George C. Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Barack Obama.

The political revelations of the latest anti-Trump book releases and tapes have overshadowed the Nobel Awards process. How many of you can claim awareness of the nomination of President Trump for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize?

Considering this news, one wonders who would nominate President Trump? Rest assured it was no one from the United States. The culprit is a far-right Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde.

Those who know Mr. Tybring-Gjedde are not really surprised. He is a staunch anti-

Black lives, dollars matter

I would always smile when I saw Black Lives Matter T-shirts, until I saw one gracing the grubby back of a white man who had on both a BLM T-shirt and a MAGA — Make America Great Again — hat. I started to either take a photo or start a conversation because I knew somebody would accuse me of making the combination up.

Instead, I wondered where the man got the shirt/hat combo. Was he homeless and got the combo at a shelter? Was he visually impaired and didn’t understand the contradiction?

Without starting a conversation, I was left to my imagination. It had me thinking about the production and distribution of BLM wearables and the profit stream they may be creating.

You can find custom-designed screened T-shirts online for as little as $5. Anybody can make T-shirts and a profit. If Black lives, Black dollars and Black profits matter, it makes sense to look behind the T-shirt to consider the sellers and their motives. You might be funding your oppression by purchasing the right message from the wrong seller.

I think the best place to buy BLM clothing and accessories — I’ve seen hats, bags, signs, and more — is from the BLM website, www.blacklivesmatter. org. Things will cost more there than from a street vendor or another source, but the BLM site profits will fund the movement. From the BLM site, you also can sign up to get email updates.

The second best source is a

Black street vendor, who will at least be able to pocket the difference between what she purchased the shirts for and what she sold them for. Increasingly, COVID-imposed economic hardship has motivated people to take their entrepreneurial ability to the streets.

The next best source might be BLM-friendly, activist organizations that are selling BLM stuff. It doesn’t hurt, though, to

Julianne Malveaux ask where they got the shirts and where the profits go.

The worst place to get BLM material is from a capitalist retail establishment like Walmart, which sells the shirts and, until June, All Lives Matter shirts, Irish Lives Matter shirts, and Homeless Lives Matter shirts. While taking nothing away from the homeless or the Irish, in some ways, these shirts attempt to undermine and minimize the purpose and focus of the Black Lives Matter movement.

We say Black Lives Matter emphatically because our lives didn’t matter when our country was founded. They didn’t matter when we were lynched and no one was ever prosecuted. Our lives have little value when we are treated inhumanely, with our little girls being dragged by their braids by rabid police officers, shot in the back, subjected to chokeholds to the point where we can’t breathe, endured a knee to the neck to the point of death and more.

Taking the Black Lives Matter slogan and spoofing it — Drunk Wives Matter — attempts to minimize the racism that riddles our country.

Walmart stopped selling the All Lives Matter shirts after

getting criticism from the BLM movement, but it still sells Blue Lives Matter shirts and paraphernalia. It sells shirts that say Bartender Lives Matter and Cat Lives Matter shirts as well. While no one has a trademark on the term “Lives Matter,” satirizing Black Lives Matter is, at the very least, disrespectful. It is anti-Black hostility.

In June, Walmart said it would spend $100 million over five years creating a “center for racial equity.” Though its CEO, Doug McMillon, explicitly said “Black Lives Matter” at a virtual companywide meeting in June, the commitment was vague. Walmart, one of the largest employers of African-Americans, should put their money where their rhetoric is and pay people fairly, provide good benefits, including health care and paid sick leave, and establish a center for racial equity. With 2019 profits exceeding $123 billion, the company can certainly afford to spend a fraction of 1 percent of those profits on racial equity.

There are online T-shirt companies that sell Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter shirts, missing BLM’s whole point.

They include Wild Bobby and Old Glory Merchandise, neither of which is Black-owned. They are just capitalists hedging their bets, just like the white-owned stores that offer discriminatory service but put BLM signs in their window.

Instead, why not look for a Black-owned T-shirt company. All you have to do is google “Black-owned T-shirt company” and dozens pop up.

Don’t let the BLM movement be a profit center for predatory capitalists. Ask questions before you buy. Buy Black.

The writer is an economist, educator and author.

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immigration proponent who has, incidentally, uttered disparaging remarks about immigrants and people of color. He feels that President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to the Israel-Arab Emirates Agreement.

Despite his so-called efforts for peace, there is a simple ironic contradiction fundamental to his character. Motivated by jealousy to receive the same honor as his predecessor, he promotes peace abroad while fomenting hostility, violence and cultural division among citizens of the United States.

President Trump has shown that a single act of purpose does not define character. His lies and true disregard for others disqualifies him from the office he holds and receipt of an award well-defined by the character of its previous recipients.

The writer is president of the National Congress of Black Women.

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Commentary Justice, equality and freedom are elusive The Aug. 23 police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, Wis., triggered yet another round of community protests and national news coverage. Multiple gunshots fired by a local police officer were not fatal for 29-year old Jacob Blake, but may have permanently paralyzed him from the waist down.

Days later on Aug. 28, the National Action Network was a major organizer for a Commitment March, re-dedicating the yet unaddressed dreams of the historic 1963 March on Washington. Assembled again at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial, the day’s speakers included the Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and family members of Mr. Blake, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Despite the passage of nearly 60 years between the original march and its 2020 recommitment, many of the issues that plagued Black America then remain the same. Black America and other people of color still cry for justice, equality and freedom. Why measurable forward strides in policing or economic progress have remained elusive after decades of calls for reforms may partly be explained by the

Charlene Crowell findings of a new policy analysis by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. Using U.S. Census Bureau data, Ana Hernandez Kent, a policy analyst with the St. Louis Federal Reserve, found that America’s racial poverty gap continues to suppress social and economic justice. Moreover, Wisconsin — and not a Southern state—claims the dubious distinction of having the largest poverty gap in the nation.

The analysis found that in 2018, Black households nationally earned 61 cents for every $1 of white household median income. Further, the Black-white median household income gaps ranged from 87 cents per dollar in Maine and Hawaii to 32 cents per dollar in the District of Columbia. The disparity in median translates into 22 percent of all Black Americans living in poverty, a gap of 13 percent compared to whites who are poor. Wisconsin’s gap is 23 percent. “In noting the socioeconomic indicators of median income, poverty rates and health insurance rates, I found that white people had more favorable outcomes than Black people in every state,� wrote Ms. Hernandez Kent.

Poverty’s racial disparity extends to other key measures such as median incomes, hom-

eownership and retirement.

Even with the enactment of the Fair Housing Act more than 50 years ago, today’s Black homeownership rate is dwindling. According to Ohio State University Professor Trevon Logan, “The homeownership gap between Blacks and whites is higher today in percentage terms than it was in 1900.�

Nikitra Bailey of the Center for Responsible Lending recently told ABC News that the suburbs “intentionally created opportunities for white families while holding back opportunities for families of color. ‌What we are really talking about is opportunity in our nation.â€?

With escalating violence in a growing number of cities occurring just months before an election, everyday citizens and scholars are echoing community and national leaders on the connection between key policies like housing segregation to violent eruptions.

Last December, the Journal of the National Medical Association, the professional organization of Black physicians, published an article entitled, “The Relationship between Racial Residential Segregation and Black-White Disparities in Fatal Police Shootings at the City Level, 2013–2017.�

The authors concluded that “Racial residential segregation is a significant predictor of the magnitude of the Black-white disparity in fatal police shootings at the city level. Efforts to ameliorate the problem of fatal police violence must move beyond the individual level and consider the interaction between law enforcement officers and the neighborhoods that they police.�

Before the thousands gathered at the re-commitment march in Washington in August, Rev. Sharpton also spoke to this same concern. “It’s time we have a conversation with America. We need to have a conversation about your racism, about your bigotry, about your hate, about how you would put your knee on our neck while we cry for our lives. We need a new conversation. ‌You act like it’s no trouble to shoot us in the back. You act like it’s no trouble to put a choke hold on us while we scream, ‘I can’t breathe,’ 11 times. You act like it’s no trouble to hold a man down on the ground until you squeeze the life out of him. “Our vote is dipped in blood,â€? Rev. Sharpton continued. “Our vote is dipped in those that went to their grave. We don’t care how long the line, we don’t care what you do, we’re going to vote, not for one candidate or the other, but we going to vote for a nation that’ll stop the George are loyds, that’ll stop the Breonna Taylors.â€?

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

Towering tandem may take L.A. Lakers to NBA championship Anthony Davis

LeBron James and Anthony Davis may be the most entertaining one-two combination since rock and roll.

Now, we’ll learn if the talented twosome can bust the right moves to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.

If the Lakers can “hit it” and defeat the Denver Nuggets to reach the NBA Finals, much will depend on James, 35, among the greatest of all time, and Davis, 27, perhaps the top star of the future.

After defeating the Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets in the NBA Western Conference playoffs, the Southern Californians are now matched with party-crashing, upset-minded Denver in the Western Conference Finals.

The Lakers won Game One 126-114 on Sept. 18. The 6-foot-10 Davis had 27 points, 10 rebounds and four assists, while 6-foot-8 James chipped in 15 points, six rebounds and a whopping 12 assists.

The Lakers went up 2-0 with a 105-103 win over the Nuggets on Sept. 20. Davis had 31 points and nine rebounds, while James added 26 points, 10 rebounds and four assists.

The winner of the conference finals will advance to meet the survivor of the Miami Heat-Boston Celtics Eastern Conference finale.

Some background on the duo: The beginnings: Born in Akron, Ohio, James is the son of Gloria Marie James, who was 16 at the time, and Anthony McClelland, who played no role in his son’s formative years.

Davis grew up on the South Side of Chicago, the son of Anthony Davis Sr., 6-foot-3, and Erainer Davis, 6-foot-1.

High school: James became a teenage national celebrity at Akron’s St. Vincent-St. Mary High, often appearing on national cable telecasts.

From sixth grade on, Davis attended Perspectives Charter School, a member of the Chicago Public Schools League.

College: James made an early verbal commitment to Ohio State University, but then opted for the NBA draft.

Davis played one season for the University of Kentucky, earning consensus 2012 National Player of the Year honors and leading the Wildcats to the NCAA title.

Draft: James was selected first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003.

LeBron James

Davis was the first overall pick by the New Orleans Hornets, now Pelicans, in 2012.

NBA résumés: James’ worksheet is so bright you almost need a welder’s mask to read it. For starters, he is a three-time NBA champion, three-time Finals MVP, 13-time All-Star, three-time All-Star MVP and four-time NBA Player of the Year.

With New Orleans, Davis was a seven-time All-Star, a single All-Star MVP, a four-time All-NBA pick, two All-Defensive selections and three-time blocked shots leader. About all that’s missing is the team championships.

L.A. arrival: James opted out of his Cleveland contract in 2018 and signed with the Lakers as an unrestricted free agent on July 9, 2018.

The Pelicans traded Davis to Los Angeles in June 2019 for Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart and Lonzo Ball, plus three first round draft choices.

2020 report: The Lakers were 52-19 during the regular season, the best in the West. After 10 playoff games, Davis is averaging 27.6 points, 10.9 rebounds and 4.1 assists. James has averaged 26.6 points, 10.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists.

No one’s perfect: For years, James wore a headband that hid a receding hairline. Hair restoration treatment has helped restore his more youthful look.

In addition to his extraordinary skills on court, Davis draws attention for his famous “uni-brow.” He refuses to shave it.

History lesson: The Lakers are renowned for their potent pairs.

Hall of famers Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West led the Lakers to the 1972 title. When together, they posted a regular season record of 214-74 and 43-25 in the playoffs.

Two more hall of famers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, led Los Angeles to five championships in 10 seasons, a 506-179 record in the regular season and a 110-47 mark in the playoffs.

Then came Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, arguably the best guard-big man combination in the annals of the game. The Lakers won three NBA crowns in their eight seasons together.

Now it’s “Bron’s” and “AD’s” turn.

NBA Finals are pro basketball’s version of the Big Dance.

It’s time to see how the Lakers’ towering tandem kicks up its heels. The band is warming up.

NHL diversity group submits social justice demands The National Hockey League is attempting to take steps — albeit baby steps — down the road toward expanded inclusivity.

A group of seven current and former NHL players of color have established the Hockey Diversity Alliance, or HDA. Its mission, according to its website: “To eradicate systemic racism and intolerance in hockey. ... We (the HDA) are committed to inspiring a new and diverse generation of hockey players and fans.”

The HDA was born on the heels of a national protest against police brutality, sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. By far, hockey remains the whitest of professional team sports in the United States and Canada. Only about 43 of the NHL’s 700 players this season were non-white.

Likewise, the fan base is overwhelmingly white.

The HDA has submitted these requests to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and the National Hockey Association: • Commit to diversifying NHL team staff and suppliers.

• Commit $10 million per year over 10

years — $100 million total — to battle systemic racism.

• Offer social justice initiatives in support of Black, indigenous and racially marginalized communiEvander Kane ties. This would feature funds for “grassroots” programs providing training and equipment.

• Have the league run PSAs (Professional Sports Authenticators) for HDA during postseason this summer and for the on-ice presence of the HDA logo throughout the playoffs.

• Allow “Black Out” warm-up jerseys to help build awareness of the alliance’s agenda, with the jerseys also being sold to help raise money for HDA initiatives.

• Temporarily change the blue line to black for some games to raise awareness.

That said, the NHL has not agreed or committed to any of the requests.

On the plus side, the NHL postponed two nights of playoff games to draw attention to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, in Kenosha, Wis. Mr. Blake was shot several Akim Aliu times in the back by police, and may be paralyzed from the waist down. In doing so, the NHL followed the lead of the NBA, WNBA, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer.

Time will tell how this goes. The NHL is now in the finals of its Stanley Cup playoffs.

Co-heading the HDA are Akim Aliu, a former NHL player who now is competing in the Czech Republic, and Evander Kane, currently of the NHL San Jose Sharks.

Others on the organizing committee are Trevor Daley, Matt Dumba, Wayne Simmonds, Joel Ward and Chris Stewart.

Hall of F amer Deion Sanders has new title: Coach When Jackson State University begins its football season this spring, the Tigers will have a very famous coach.

On Monday, Deion Sanders, aka “Prime Time,” agreed to coach the HBCU Southwestern Athletic Conference school in Mississippi.

Sanders is currently the offensive coordinator at Trinity Christian School in Cedar Hill, Texas.

A native of Fort Myers, Fla., Sanders was an eighttime NFL Pro Bowl selection as a defensive back and kick returner. He had 53 career interceptions, including 10 for touchdowns.

Sanders also played Major

Coach Sanders

League Baseball as a leftfielder from 1989 to 2001.

At Jackson State, Sanders replaces John Henshaw, who went 4-8 overall and 3-4 in the SWAC a year ago.

Sanders is a member of both the NFL and College Football halls of fame. He played col-

legiately at Florida State University, where he was a football and track All-American.

Jackson State has some hall of famers of its own.

Tigers alumni in the NFL Hall of Fame are Walter Payton, Lem Barney, Robert Brazile and Jackie Slater.

It’s been tough going of late, however. Jackson State hasn’t enjoyed a winning season since 2013.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, SWAC has postponed football from this fall to spring 2021.

Mo Alie-Cox helps hand the Colts a win Mo Alie-Cox has some of the largest hands in the NFL and, last Sunday, he showed them off.

The former Virginia Commonwealth University basketball standout had five receptions for 111 yards to help the Indianapolis Colts to a 28-11 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.

His longest play went for 33 yards.

It was by far Alie-Cox’s best ever game.

The 6-foot-5 native of Northern Virginia AP Photo/Michael Conroy had not played football Indianapolis Colts tight end Mo since his freshman Alie-Cox (81) makes a catch Sunday year in high school against the Minnesota Vikings’ before joining the Holton Hill (24) during the second Colts as a free agent half of their game in Indianapolis. in October 2017.

Alie-Cox, whose hands stretch 11 ¾ inches from the tip of his thumb to the tip of his pinkie, is in his third NFL season after an outstanding basketball career at VCU. The former Ram had two catches for 20 yards in the Colts’ opening loss at Jacksonville the week before.

MLB headed to a ‘bubble’ for playoffs, World Series Baseball fans will be hearing the word “bubble” a lot in the coming weeks.

Wild Card Series In an effort to minimize (best of three) Starts Tuesday, Sept. 29; the spread of the coronavirus, to be played at higher Major League Baseball will use seed team’s field. a “bubble” format for the final three rounds of a four-tiered Divisional Series playoff. (best of five) Starts Monday, Oct. 5; to This is similar to the “bubble” be played at Los Angeles, concept used with great success San Diego, Houston and for the NBA playoffs being held Arlington, Texas. in Florida.

Championships Series The World Series will be (best of seven) played in its entirety at first-year Starts Sunday, Oct. 11; Globe Life Field in Arlington, to be played at Arlington, Texas, the home field of MLB’s Texas, and San Diego.

Texas Rangers.

World Series The Rangers started the final (best of seven) week of the regular season as an Starts Tuesday, Oct. 20; extreme long shot to qualify for to be played in Arlington, the playoffs’ 16-team field.

Texas, and broadcast on This will be the first time the Fox Television.

World Series has been played at the same field since 1944, when the event was conducted at Sportsman Park in St. Louis.

No firm rules regarding spectator attendance have been released.

Players will stay at “team hotels.” They will be allowed up to six family members or guests at a separate “family hotel.”

Team active rosters will be capped at 28, with 12 alternate players and 50 “added personnel.”

Last year’s World Series champion Washington Nationals are a long shot this season to qualify for the playoffs.

MLB Playoff Schedule

U.Va.-Tech football matchup rescheduled for Dec. 12 Get ready for what may be the “Cold Bowl.” Woolens recommended.

The on-then-off then onagain University of VirginiaVirginia Tech football game has been scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 12, in Blacksburg.

It will mark the latest the ACC rivals have ever met on the gridiron, with temperatures possibly being in the 30s or below.

No kickoff time has been set and will likely be determined by television.

The rivalry matchup origi-

nally was set for Sept.

19, but was postponed because of an outbreak of coronavirus on the Tech campus.

As it is, Tech will open at 8 p.m. this Saturday, Sept.

26, at home against North Carolina State University, while U.Va. will play host to Duke University this Saturday in Charlottesville.

The Division I FBS schedule for Virginia schools got underway last Saturday with Liberty University scoring a 30-24 victory at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

Georgia Bulldogs racial barrier breaker Ronnie Hogue dies at 69 Ronnie Hogue, the University of Georgia’s first Black scholarship basketball player, died Friday, Sept. 18, 2020.

He was 69.

Mr. Hogue scored 1,367 points in three varsity seasons — 1971, 1972 and 1973 — for the Bulldogs and finished with a 17.8 scoring average. He made the AllSoutheast Conference team as a junior Ronnie Hogue when he averaged 20.5 points.

The guard-forward scored 46 points (hitting 20 of 23 field goals) in a December 1971 game against Louisiana State University in Athens, Ga. He preceded his varsity career by averaging 19.1 points on the Georgia freshman squad in 1969-70. Freshmen were not eligible for varsity play then.

A native of Washington and graduate of McKinley Tech High School, Mr. Hogue was a seventh round NBA draft selection by the Washington Bullets.

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September 24-26, 2020

Full Schedule of Events for a Virtual Celebration DESIRÉE ROOTS

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Legacy Band - A new festival performance by one

Desirée Roots - Performing some of her new jazz

of Richmond’s favorite bands playing top hits with a mix of soul, R&B, funk and jazz.

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VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY GOSPEL CHOIR

REMEMBRANCE OF “DEBO” DABNEY

EU (Experience Unlimited) - A favorite past

performance from the 2019 festival headliner.

Sports Backers Fitness Warriors and D & G Line Dancing - Get up and move with fun new dance workouts.

Remembrance of “Debo” Dabney - Local musicians including J. Plunky Branch, Glennroy Bailey, Desirée Roots, and more share their reflections of Herbert A. Dabney, III, a dynamic and animated pianist who passed away earlier this year.

Virginia Union University Gospel Choir - Sing, clap or

hum along as they perform.

Virtual Festival Activities

“Show us your 2nd Street Smile” Photo Contest

Cooking Demonstrations

Chefs from popular 2nd Street vendors, Croaker’s Spot and Africanne on Main, both prepare and share dishes through culinary demonstrations.

Kidz Zone Fun Young viewers will enjoy story time with Candice Smith of NBC12 News and with the Children’s Museum, and a balloon twisting demonstration by festival favorite Eddie Cook with Balloons By Extreme.

From September 28 - October 4, use the #2Street hashtag to “Show us your 2nd Street Smile” and win prizes! On Facebook and Instagram, post photos of where and how you plan to watch the virtual 2nd Street Festival. Are you watching with your best friend, your furry friends, or your family? On October 5, we’ll choose 10 winners to win $50-$100 gift cards to your favorite spots in the Jackson Ward neighborhood! Don’t forget to label your photos with #2Street to be entered to win.

Historic Jackson Ward Neighborhood

Spotlight on Jackson Ward Gary Flowers of Walking The Ward Tours visits two popular sites, the Maggie L. Walker statue and Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Hear remembrances from longtime residents and business owners of Jackson Ward.

Even though we can’t be together in Jackson Ward this year, be sure to shop the neighborhood businesses and restaurants to show your support for downtown Richmond. Don’t forget to wear your mask!

Ways to Watch This Year’s Virtual Festival A great opportunity for families to plan gatherings and watch parties at home in a safe, fun and responsible way.

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Happenings Free Press photographer Sandra Sellars to speak at VMFA virtual symposium

Illustrator Shannon Wright brings skills to Richmond Folk Festival official poster

By Ronald E. Carrington

Artist Shannon Wright, an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has been featured in major publications, books and online sites including The New York Times, The Atlantic magazine, The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom, Google Doodles and Scholastic, has been commissioned to create the official poster for the 16th Annual Richmond Folk Festival.

The festival, a blend of music, dance and celebration of cultures from across the globe, is going to be a virtual event this year because of the coronavirus. The show will go on Oct. 9 through 11, with radio broadcasts, online streaming and a special television program

featuring Virginia artists.

Ms. Wright said she is excited to use her talents to illustrate the music festival that typically draws thousands to Richmond’s waterfront. But she acknowledged the task became challenging when the festival changed from an outdoor event to one online.

“Exploring what it looks and feels like to experience a virtual concert, while social distancing, is a major creative challenge,” Ms. Wright said. “The process was totally different because I thought I would be illustrating an outdoors event.”

She said she explored the use of color and forms to capture the spirit of the festival.

“I still wanted to have the sense of togetherness and experiencing the festival together, despite the fact (people will be) watching on their screens,” Ms. Wright said.

“I want to keep the poster upbeat and reflective of Richmond’s night life, as well as all of the outdoor facilities for entertainment as you witness stars at night.”

For that outdoor and upbeat feel, she uses shades of blue with pops of reds and yellows. She said she thought it would be interesting to have performers’ presence on the poster, as well as audience members in the frame.

“With the color palette, I made sure the audience’s colors reflected the people consuming the music,” Ms. Wright said. “It is definitely a diverse group of people – young and old, all races and ethnicities, upbeat and togetherness. I am showcasing them in (physical features) and skin tone.”

Ms. Wright

A native of Spotsylvania, Ms. Wright has lived in Richmond since entering Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012 to study art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in communication arts in 2016.

Her love of art and illustration began early. When she was 4, Ms. Wright said she watched cartoons, played video games and read comic books. It was a favorite pastime for her father, Kevin Wright, and her brothers, Travis and Kevin II. “Art and entertainment were always present in our home,” Ms. Wright said.

“I was so drawn to both. I thought that I could do this.”

She said she loved drawing and would draw all the time.

“I would draw in class and at home.

I would draw on everything — sheets of computer paper, a notebook in church. I just couldn’t stop.”

She marks her first successful exhibit when she was a second-grader. She was selected to do a mural for her elementary school.

At VCU, she cultivated her skills as an illustrator. Her work, “Shared or Stolen: An Examination of Cultural Appropriation,” won the 2016 Bobbi Braun Award from the Society of Illustrators.

What’s in her future?

Ms. Wright says her dream is to teach art and create her own place for students — and up-and-coming artists — to create comic book work and illustration.

The poster for the 16th Annual Richmond Folk Festival will be on sale online and at Plan 9 Music in Carytown beginning Thursday, Sept. 24.

Richmond Free Press photographer Sandra Sellars is speaking at a virtual symposium, “The Kamoinge Workshop: Collaboration, Community and Photography,” sponsored by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in conjunction with the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art. Ms. Sellars Ms. Sellars, who also works as an assistant photographer with the VMFA, will be part of a panel at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, on “Building the Draper Archive Portal.” Her work with the museum has focused largely on digitizing and preserving the photographic work of the late Henrico County native Louis Draper.

Mr. Draper, who moved to New York City in 1957, is internationally regarded for documenting the everyday lives of African-Americans and notable leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, he helped establish the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of African-American photographers in New York.

Ms. Sellars will talk about the Draper Archive Portal with VMFA archivist Courtney Tkacz, Credit: Anthony Barboza, Kamoinge Group Portrait, 1973, VMFA, Courtesy Eric and Jeanette Lipman Fund. followed by Henrico native Louis Draper, kneeling Beuford Smith, center, poses with fellow photographers an artist with in this Kamoinge group portrait from the Kamoinge 1973 by Anthony Barboza.

Workshop, and Bill Gaskins of the Maryland Institute College of Art, on “True & Free: A Creation Story of the Black Photographers Annual.”

The symposium, which continues each Thursday through Oct. 15, is free and held in conjunction with the museum’s special exhibition, “Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop.”

Registration via Zoom is required. For details and registration, go to www.vmfa.museum/calendar/events/ kamoinge-symposium/

Virtual Emmy Awards ceremony has history-making wins and social messaging Reuters

Regina King

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Uzo Aduba

LOS ANGELES It was a virtual night of glamour for some, go-as-you-are for others, social justice messaging and family affairs.

It was the annual Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC television Sunday night.

But because of the pandemic, it was all virtual, with no live audience of stars. Instead, more than 100 cameras were deployed at homes and celebrations being staged elsewhere by nominees so that winners could accept their award in real time.

And of course, things sometimes went wrong.

Ron Cephas Jones’ guest actor award for “This Is Us” was announced for another nominee, Jason Bateman.

The error occurred during Saturday’s online creative arts Emmys, a precursor to Sunday’s main ceremony and the culmination of a week of events honoring technical and other achievements.

Last Saturday’s show on FXX, however, was the only one of the creative arts presentations to be televised, making the error more glaring. In a voiceover announcement, Mr. Bateman was declared the winner for his guest appearance on HBO’s “The Outsider,” while the screen displayed Mr. Jones’ name.

Mr. Jones was good-natured

Above, Zendaya, lead actress award winner for her role in “Euphoria”, is surrounded by family and friends following her win. Below, Ron Cephas Jones and daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones are the first father and daughter to win in the same year.

about the mistake when he fielded questions virtually afterward. He focused instead on his second Emmy for “This Is Us” and especially on his daughter, actorsinger Jasmine Cephas Jones.

He expressed delight when learning that the pair made Emmy history as the first father and daughter to win in the same year. Her short-form series acting

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“My heart just explodes when I think about her and watch her and the success that she’s had,” he said.

Other winners Saturday included Eddie Murphy, whose return to “Saturday Night Live” after more than three decades earned the star his first Emmy Award, for guest comedy series actor.

Maya Rudolph claimed the category’s guest actress trophy for her portrayal of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, two days after claiming a voice-over performance Emmy for “Big Mouth.”

Cherry Jones won the guest drama actress trophy for “Succession.”

During Sunday’s ceremony, several Emmy winners, including Regina King and Uzo Aduba, highlighted the national struggle for social justice.

Both actresses wore T-shirts featuring Breonna Taylor, the 26year-old EMT from Louisville, Ky., who was shot and killed by police in March during a late-night raid of her home.

Ms. King’s T-shirt featured Ms. Taylor’s face.

Ms. King won for actress in a limited series or a TV movie as the masked hero in HBO’s “Watchmen.”

“I loved when I saw her shirt and standing in it with such strength and power, which we all know she has,” said Ms.

Aduba, winner for supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie for “Mrs. America” in which she played the late New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.

Damon Lindelof wore a black T-shirt with “Remember Tulsa ’21” in yellow letters while accepting the Emmy for limited series writing for “Watchmen.”

Cord Jefferson, who is Black and shared the award, and Mr. Lindelof stood in front of a banner reading “Give a Damn” that was hung from a fireplace mantle.

Mr. Lindelof, who is white, was drawing attention to the race riot in Tulsa, Okla., that occurred after white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons, attacked Black residents and businesses in the city. Mr. Jefferson called it “the original sin of our show.”

Meanwhile, 24-year-old Zendaya became emotional after she took home the trophy for her role in the HBO series, “Euphoria,” scoring one of the few long shot victories Sunday night. She is the youngest actress and only the second Black actress to claim the lead drama actress award, following Viola Davis’groundbreaking 2015 win for “How To Get Away With Murder.”

Richmond Free Press

September 24-26, 2020

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Personality: Debora B. ‘Deb’ Wake Spotlight on president of the League of Women Voters of Virginia The 2020 general election has begun, and for Virginians voting by absentee ballot, there is one less hurdle this year, thanks to the work of the League of Women Voters of Virginia and its president Debora B. “Deb” Wake.

The nonpartisan organization, whose primary mission is to help register, educate and advocate for voters, successfully filed suit earlier this year to waive the requirement for all absentee voters to open and fill out their ballot in front of another adult and for the witness to sign a statement attesting to that. The requirement, which was waived for the June primaries and in the November general election, removes an obstacle to voting for those most vulnerable to COVID-19.

It’s a significant victory for the Virginia organization, formed on Nov. 10, 1920, just months after the national organization’s inception. The Virginia League’s first president, artist and suffragist Adele Goodman Clark is immortalized in bronze as one of the figures on “Voices from the Garden, Virginia Women’s Monument” in Capitol Square.

Ms. Wake has been busy since taking the helm July 1, 2019, for a two-year term.

“I saw an opportunity to bring people together,” Ms. Wake says when asked about her decision to accept the job as president. She said statewide membership had splintered into isolated branches that she felt could do more by working together and partnering with other organizations.

As president, Ms. Wake has been balancing the league’s responsibilities of voter registration and information, and forums on candidates and electoral issues with several new challenges.

This includes commemorating the league’s 100th anniversary,

continuing a two-year study on affordable housing, advocating for the environment, gun violence prevention laws and other issues during the General Assembly and managing the difficulty of election outreach and voter registration during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the November election ramps up, members across the state have sent more than 200,000 postcards to unregistered and low turnout voters, distributed tens of thousands of fliers to various community sites and have had multiple outreach and education programs, online and offline, all with the goal of getting people registered to vote and informing and preparing Virginia voters about the issues.

Many of these efforts have been done through cooperation with other groups, including Reclaim Our Vote as well as legislators and community leaders. It’s this collaboration that Ms. Wake says is the most important goal and strategy as president.

With early, in-person voting underway since Sept. 18, many of the organization’s members, including Ms. Wake, will be volunteering as poll workers, running hotlines and reminding people to vote through canvassing efforts, while still following COVID-19 safety guidelines.

Ms. Wake sees the voter turnout so far as an encouraging sign of “how important voting is to people.”

Meet an advocate working to increase Virginia’s voter turnout and this week’s Personality, Debora B. “Deb” Wake: No. 1 volunteer position: President, League of Women Voters of Virginia.

Date and place of birth: 1963 in Rockingham County.

Where I live now: Vienna, Va.

Education: Bachelor’s in horticulture, Virginia Tech.

Occupation: Full-time volunteer.

Family: Husband and three “kids” — Steve, Simon, Lella and Malcolm.

League of Women Voters’ mission: The League of Women Voters is a 100-year-old organization birthed from the Suffrage Movement. The original goals were to register all of the newly eligible women voters, educate them on the issues so that they could make up their own minds at the polls and advocate for issues that are important to them.

Now, 100 years later, although we have expanded our outreach for registration and education of all citizens, we still hold firm to those three core principles.

When and why the League of Women Voters was founded: Feb. 14, 1920. We were founded

by Carrie Chapman Catt six months before the enactment of the 19th Amendment.

Why the League of Women Voters of Virginia is important in our community: We are a conduit of nonpartisan, reliable information for voters. In this day and age of hyperpartisanism and division, we are the voice of reason.

Our VOTE411.org website is a nationwide tool for voters to find not only their polling locations but to learn what candidates and issues are on the ballot, plus other relevant voting information.

No. 1 goal or project as president: Collaboration.

It’s funny, I didn’t really have a lofty goal — and yet, we have accomplished a lot in the last year. We supported a host of new laws enacted July 1 and in the special session that will make it easier for people to exercise their right to vote.

The 19th Amendment is: Important because it gave women — mostly white women — the right to vote. Clearly it didn’t do enough to truly make the ballot box accessible to Black voters; that was the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. However, in 1920 when the 19th Amendment passed, some women were able to vote and started demanding changes in the laws, especially relating to labor laws to protect children and young women. It illustrates the importance of being able to vote for lawmakers who truly represent their constituents.

The 19th Amendment and its relationship to Virginia: Virginia did not ratify the 19thAmendment until 1952. It was difficult for women to vote because of Jim Crow laws and other suppressive measures. Laws had been in place for centuries where women

were considered property of their fathers and then their husbands.

Women tended to vote the way their husbands instructed and it would take time to change that culture. The League of Women Voters was integral to those changes by educating voters and working for more inclusive laws.

What the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment means today: It means that we still have work to do. Virginia passed the Equal Rights Amendment earlier this year. We were the 38th and final state needed for passage. Yet, political maneuverings are keeping this much-needed amendment out of the U.S. Constitution. It means despite better representation in our state government, we still only have 11 women senators out of 40 and 29 women delegates out of 100. The makeup of the General Assembly should resemble that of the voting population. Then we will have a truly representative Democracy.

Why the LWV is important in the Black community: Much of our work today focuses on engaging, registering and increasing access to voting. We have been focusing particularly on those who are most often or historically disenfranchised. Access to the polls means access for all and we have tripled our commitment to this effort.

How the League of Women Voters of Virginia plans to get people to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 3: We are doing outreach in every form. Many of our members, like myself, are poll workers.

We will also be staffing hotlines and knocking on doors reminding people to vote. We’ve already been fielding a lot of questions from voters who want to make sure they are prepared.

People should take advantage

of early voting, which began Sept. 18. Virginia no longer requires an excuse to vote early.

Voters should check with their local registrar to find times and locations: https://vote.elections. virginia.gov/voterinformation/ publiccontactlookup. Vote by mail ballots must be requested from local registrars by Oct. 23, but please don’t wait that long. Go online or contact your registrar now and to get your ballot.

Anyone with questions can contact us at voterservices@lwv-va. org or call (804) 447-8494.

How I start the day: There’s a lot to do, better get started.

Three words that best describe me: Optimistic, straightforward and a processor.

Best late-night snack: I try not to, but if I reach for something, it’s probably going to be chocolate.

How I unwind: Knitting.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: Sew. At the top of my “to-do” list: Vote.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: Hard work and commitment.

Person who influenced me the most: My piano teacher, Dorothy Thomas, who was a better listener and therapist than I was a student.

Book that influenced me the most: “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.

What I’m reading now: “Gerrymanders: How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy and Partisan Minorities in Virginia” by Brent Tarter.

Next goal: For the league, we need campaign finance reform to minimize the influence of money in politics. On a personal level, I’d like to learn to professionally tailor clothes.

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Happenings Virginia Museum of History & Culture to undergo $30M renovation

By Ronald E. Carrington

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has announced plans for a major $30 million renovation of its facility beginning in October.

The museum is reimagining its current complex of 250,000 square feet, at 428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. with the 18-month project that will provide multiple new exhibitions spaces for longterm and changing exhibitions; a new research library with a state-of-the-art rare book and manuscript suite with multiple education and meeting rooms; an immersive orientation theater and interactive learning space for families; and a new café and museum store.

Additionally the renovation will provide multiple new and renewed community and event spaces, including a new great hall, a second floor event terrace and outdoor event lawn, an expanded parking lot and an improved connector to the neighboring Virginia Museum of Fine Arts campus.

“What we have teed up is a fundamental change to this old institution,” Jamie Bosket, VMHC president and chief executive officer, told the Free Press in an interview this week.

“The museum will be open in some capacity—very limited capacity—during the renovations and we will continue our new digital programming.”

Left, the main entrance of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture will be redesigned to include a new green space and event plaza. Above, the new Great Hall will house large objects from the museum’s collection and lead to an updated grand staircase.

Asked about the museum’s plans for new exhibits reflecting the complete history of Richmond and Virginia, including the roles African-Americans, Native Americans and other people of color, Mr. Bosket was direct.

“In 2019, when VMHC opened ‘Determined: The 400Year Struggle for Black Equality,’ it was a bit of a turning point for us to really meaningfully expand the narrative to share all stories, particularly Black people’s experience locally and beyond in Virginia,” Mr. Bosket said. “There will be much more of that.”

That exhibit, which was done in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia, opened the day the museum hosted on its front lawn the ceremony renaming the street on which it is located Arthur Ashe Boulevard in honor of the late Richmond native, tennis great, human rights advocate and philanthropist.

Thousands of people, in-

cluding elected officials and members of Mr. Ashe’s family, attended for the ceremony that featured the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia as the keynote speaker.

Following the ceremony, hundreds of people toured the exhibit that traced the many ways Black people have shaped American history through their fight for freedom, equality and justice.

According to Mr. Bosket, VMHC is planning to install longterm exhibitions, including one entitled, “Our Commonwealth,” which will have stronger representations of all Virginians.

In a news release, Gov. Ralph S. Northam voiced support for the museum’s renovation and future exhibition plans.

“Virginia history is American history, and that history is complex, contradictory and too often untold,” the governor stated. “We must keep working to lift up the voices and stories of all those who have shaped it.”

Also in a statement, Mayor

Benefit fundraiser for Larry Bland Sept. 27 Friends and admirers of legendary of volunteers in the effort.

Richmond choir director Larry Bland Donations also can be mailed to will hold a drive-thru fundraiser this Mr. Bland at 1207 Idlewood Ave., weekend in an effort to aid the seriRichmond, Va. 23220, or to St. Peter ously ill musician cover the cost of Baptist Church, 2040 Mountain Road, care, it has been announced.

Glen Allen, Va., 23060, organizers The donation drop-off will take stated. place between 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday, All of the money received will go Sept. 27, at Fifth Baptist Church, 1415 toward Mr. Bland’s day-to-day care, Mr. Bland W. Cary St., to aid Mr. Bland, who according to the announcement. Mr. is best known for leading the Volunteer Choir Bland previously stated he is suffering from for about 45 years. stage four cancer.

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Traffic Signal Replacements in Chesterfield and Henrico Counties VDOT Richmond District Willingness to hold a public hearing Find out about proposed plans to replace traffic signals at eight intersections in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. Proposed replacements include the following intersections: Chesterfield County Jefferson Davis Highway (Route 1) at Dwight Avenue/Defense Supply Jefferson Davis Highway (Route 1) at Reymet Road (Route 608) Jefferson Davis Highway (Route 1) at Osborne Road Midlothian Turnpike (Route 60) at Huguenot Road (Route 147)/Courthouse Road Hull Street Road (Route 360) at Chippenham Parkway (Route 150) Henrico County Brook Road (Route 1) at Lakeside Avenue Brook Road (Route 1) at Wilmer Avenue Chamberlayne Road (Route 301) at Wilmer Avenue

Levar M. Stoney said, “The VMHC has taken an active role in our Richmond community and has committed to telling a more inclusive and complete history of our Commonwealth, where all Virginians can see themselves in the triumphs and tragedies, the glory and the

pain, of our collective story. As America reckons with its past, present and future, I can’t think of a more consequential time for the reinvention of this vital institution.”

Construction will begin in early October and is expected to be completed in early 2022.

A grand reopening is scheduled for the spring of 2022.

While portions of the museum will remain open to the public throughout the renovation, the museum’s extensive digital outreach effects and select programming will continue without interruption, officials said.

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James Cooper Jr., RPS computer pro, dies at 85

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

James Cooper Jr., who trained Richmond Public Schools teachers and staff to use computers as they came into common use in the 1980s, has died.

The Kingstree, S.C., native died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, his family said. The Glen Allen resident was 85.

During his 32-year career with RPS, Mr. Cooper served in a variety of roles, ranging from a classroom teacher to a curriculum specialist and fiscal planner. But his most important role was serving as coordinator of computer training and user support to enable RPS employees to adapt to the new machines and also for being the go-to guy when something went wrong.

He received awards in 1990 for his service in training the RPS

clerical staff and for spreading computer knowledge and use throughout the school system in replacing typewriters.

Mr. Cooper began his education career after graduating with a math degree from South Carolina State University. He started as a math teacher in North Charleston, S.C., and moved to Virginia after earning a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in applied mathematics from Clark-Atlanta University. He first worked in public schools in Staunton and also served as an adjunct instructor in Virginia State Mr. Cooper Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Field Services Division.

Mr. Cooper moved to Richmond in 1963 to become a teacher

Black Jesus version of Michelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PietĂ divides Catholics on race and politics

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Life, an official Vatican think portrayed a 22-year-old NiAnswering those who said tank, tweeted out a photo of the gerian who fled his country that it misrepresented the hisreimagined statue on Sept. 12. to avoid persecution due to torical Jesus, the archbishop The tweet, posted by the his Christian faith. said Christians canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;pretend academy with the caption, â&#x20AC;&#x153;An At the time, the artwork that the real body of Christ, his Twitter image @PontAcadLife image that is worth a speech,â&#x20AC;? Jesus is a Black man in this was praised for its support human flesh, like Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, are was liked more than 1,000 times depiction of the PietĂ sculpture of immigrants and con- exactly the same as the white and received numerous retweets, by Michelangelo. demnation of the ongoing of the marble from Carrara,â&#x20AC;? with many commenters praising persecution of Christians referring to the quarry where In an email to Religion News its message against racism. But Service, Archbishop Paglia all over the world.

Michaelangelo is likely to have others on Twitter criticized the explained that the image the The archbishop said that sourced his marble. photo for politicizing the figure of Jesus.

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at Maggie L. Walker High School. He also taught at John Marshall and George Wythe high schools before being tapped as a curriculum specialist in math instruction for the school division and then rising in the administration ranks and making computers his specialty.

Outside the school system, Mr. Cooper worked part time for 20 years as a tax preparer for companies such as H&R Block and Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Income Tax. Mr. Cooper also served as comptroller for his church, Providence Park Baptist Church, and in recent years, was one of the musicians at church services.

He was a 50-year member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and a life member of the Virginia PTAs. He also belonged to the YMCA, was a former member of Club 533 and a member of the first class of graduates from the Henrico County Senior Citizens Police Academy.

His wife, Janet Allen Cooper, predeceased him.

Survivors include sons Eric Cooper of Cary, N.C., and James Cooper III of Greensboro, N.C.; and four grandchildren.

Family and friends celebrated Mr. Cooperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life during a graveside service Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

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City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, October 12, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2020-203 To amend Ord. No. 9015-31, adopted Feb. 26, 1990, as previously amended by Ord. No. 96-169163, adopted Jun. 24, 1996, Ord. No. 99428-2000-16, adopted Jan. 24, 2000, Ord. No. 2003-246253, adopted Sept. 8, 2003, and Ord. No. 2014-75-54, adopted Apr. 28, 2014, which authorized a special use of the property known as 428 North Boulevard, to permit exterior and interior modifications for museum and library purposes, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in a R‑6 Single Family Attached District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for institutional land use.

Primary uses include institutional uses such as places of worship, private schools, universities, museums, hospitals, and other care facilities.

Ordinance No. 2020-204 To amend and reordain Ord. No. 83-67-66, adopted Apr. 25, 1983, as amended by Ord. No. 95- 244-274, adopted Nov. 13, 1995, which authorized the use of the property known as 5607 Grove Avenue, for the purpose of a dance studio and the use of the existing building for office purposes, to allow exterior façade modifications, upon certain terms and conditions. The property is situated in an R‑4 Single‑Family Residential District.

The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Transitional Office uses. Primary uses are low‑to‑medium intensity professional, business and administrative offices, and medical and dental clinics that are compatible with adjacent residential uses and serve as separation between residential areas and nearby commercial or other higher intensity land uses or features.

Ordinance No. 2020-205 To authorize the special use of the properties known as 1041 North Lombardy Street, 1480 Moore Street, and 1500 Moore Street for the purpose of multifamily dwellings containing a total of up to 90 dwelling units, with off-street parking, upon certain terms and conditions. The properties are situated in an M-1 Light Industrial District and an R-6 Single-Family Attached Residential District. The City of Richmond’s Pulse Corridor Plan designates the subject property for Neighborhood Mixed‑Use (NMU) land use. Neighborhood Mixed‑use areas are cohesive districts that provide a mix of uses, but with a larger amount of residential uses than other mixed‑use districts. They are an urban, walkable environment with limited neighborhood‑oriented uses incorporated along key commercial corridors and at corner sites. The building size, density, and zoning districts for these areas will vary depending on historic densities and neighborhood characteristics. The density of the proposed project is approximately 26 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2020-206 To authorize the special use of the property known as 1429 Mechanicsville Turnpike for the purpose of a two-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions.

The property is situated in a R‑6 Single Family Attached District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Medium Density.

Primary uses are singlefamily and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 dwelling units per acre. The density of the proposed project is approximately 34 units per acre.

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The property is situated in a R‑6 Single Family Attached District. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates a future land use category for the subject property as Single Family Medium Density.

Primary uses are singlefamily and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 dwelling units per acre. The density of the proposed project is approximately 17 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2020-208 To close, to public use and travel, a portion of Moore Street located between North Lombardy Street and Bowe Street consisting of 9,843± square feet, but retaining portions as utility easements and access easements, upon certain terms and conditions, and to authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to accept the dedication of a public utility easement and a public access easement, consisting of 1,159± square feet and a public utility easement and a public access easement consisting of 11,723± square feet, over certain parcels adjacent to the closed portion of Moore Street, in connection with vehicular and pedestrian access to a proposed mixed-use development in the area.

Ordinance No. 2020-209 To amend City Code §§ 30-438.1, concerning permitted principal and accessory uses, 30438.3:1, concerning floor area and usable open space, 30-438.4, concerning screening, 30-452.1, concerning permitted principal uses, and 30-515, concerning sign regulations, to amend ch. 30, art. IV, div. 21 of the City Code by adding therein new §§ 30-438, concerning the intent of the B-3 zoning district, and 30-438.6, concerning parking and circulation of vehicles, and to amend ch. 30, art. XII of the City Code by adding therein new §§ 30-1220.15:1 and 30-1220.84:1, concerning certain definitions.

The meetings will be held through electronic communication means pursuant to and in compliance with Ordinance No. 2020-093, adopted April 9, 2020, as amended by Ordinance No. 2020-183, adopted August 20, 2020. The meetings will be open to participation through electronic communication means by the public and closed to in-person participation by the public.

Less than a quorum of Richmond City Planning Commission members and Richmond City Council will assemble in City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, and most members and other staff will participate by teleconference/ videoconference via Microsoft Teams.

The meetings will be streamed live online at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. a s p x . To w a t c h a meeting’s live stream at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “In Progress” in the farthest right hand column entitled, “Video”.

The agenda for the Richmond City Council meeting is accessible through the City’s legislative website at the following web address: https://richmondva. legistar.com/Calendar. aspx. To view the agenda at the web address provided, find and click the link that reads, “Agenda” associated with the October 12, 2020 Richmond City Council Formal meeting listed in the calendar.

Interested citizens who wish to speak at the Richmond City Council meeting will be given an opportunity to do so by following the “Formal Meeting Access and Public Participation Instructions” attached to the October 12, 2020 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda.

Citizens are encouraged to provide their comments in writing to CityClerksOffice@ richmondgov.com in lieu of calling in. The person responsible for receiving comments in writing is Candice D. Reid, City Clerk. All comments received prior to 10:00 a.m. on Monday, October 12, 2020, will be provided to Council members prior to the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at http:// www.richmondgov.com/ CityClerk/index.aspx.

Candice D. Reid City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD MELISSA TONITA WINKLER, Plaintiff v.

VINCENT SQUIRE, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20-2448 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii or from the bonds of matrimony.

It appearing from an affidavit that the defendant is: that diligence has been used without effect, by or on the behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city defendant is. And the last known address of the Defendant is as follows L/K/A 1700 Winbury Dr., Midlothian, Va23114.

It is ORDERED that Vincent Squire appear at the above-named court and protect his/her interests on or before October 28, 2020, at 8:30 a.m.

An Extract Teste: WENDY S. HUGHES, Clerk VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER BRITTANY RIDENHOUR, Plaintiff v.

ROBERT EDWARDS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL2001655-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 4th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER BETHANY DEUTSCH, Plaintiff v.

CHARLES DEUTSCH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20003603-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that

the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 27th day of October, 2020 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER DEMETRICE MITCHELL, Plaintiff v.

SHAWN BROWN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20002490-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 27th day of October, 2020 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER GERMANE DERRICOTT, Plaintiff v.

STACIE DERRICOTT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20001689-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

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on or before the 27th day of October, 2020 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 21st day of September 2020.

Deborah Lane Rice, Administrator

to her last known address, has not been personally located and has/have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ALTHEA V. HENRY, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

said deed of trust per its terms maturing on August 31, 2008, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 07-27848 on August 15, 2007, and TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-12068 on May 2, 2009, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that BEACH RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0727846 on August 15, 2007 per a certificate of transfer filed at Instrument Number 09-2101 on February 3, 2009, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/ or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that LIS LUIS FRANCISCO HUERTA, F I D E L F R A N CI S CO CRUZ ESTRADA, ROSA Y E S E N I A E S CO B A R , TEODOSIA SAUCEDO, JOSE M OR A Z A N MIRANDA, RAFAEL ANGEL MALDONADO VARGAS, RO B ER T O M ORE N O CI S N ERO S , M A N U E L MALDONADO, GONZALES A G U I L A R , J OR G E C .

MARTINEZ HERNANDEZ, MARIO ALVAREZ, SERGIO A R T U RO C A S T RO SOLIS, DAVID EUGENIO G A M ERO A N D ORO , RO S A D E L C A R M E N S A N D O B A L COR T E Z , IVON MODESTA GOMEZ, VICTOR M. ESPINO, JOSE ALEJANDRO JUAREZ, P A S T OR A N T O N IO E S CO B A R M U N O Z , M AY N OR M A U RICIO MUNOZ BONILLA, JOSE FRANCISCO RUIZ, JOSE ATLLANO ARIOS JAIME, S A N T O S E D U RI G E S ESCOBAR, JUAN VARGAS CO, DAVID VALENCIA A R T E A G A , G ER A R D O HERNANDEZ FACUNDO, CESAR HUERTA DIAZ, LUIS MICHEL GOMEZ, ALEX ABIMAEL HERRERA GONZALES, IMELDO DEL CARMEN MUNOZ, KARLA ESPINOZA, RE N E M A L D O N A D O AND JUAN CARLOS ALVARADO MORALES, L. V. LAWRENCE, upon information and belief deceased, Trustee of THE LMT LAND TRUST, or her successor/s in title, DEBORAH K. FOURNESS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0727846 on August 15, 2007 per a certificate of transfer filed at Instrument Number 09-2101 on February 3, 2009, said deed of trust per its terms maturing on August 31, 2008, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 07-27848 on August 15, 2007, and TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 09-12068 on May 2, 2009, that BEACH RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC, an entity listed as inactive in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0727846 on August 15, 2007 per a certificate of transfer filed at Instrument Number 09-2101 on February 3, 2009, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

upon information and belief deceased, or her/his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/ or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MARTHA GAINES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ELVIRA GAINES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, STERLING GAINES, upon information and belief deceased, or her/his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER HEATHER HOLMSLEY, Plaintiff v.

LAUREN HOLMSLEY, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20003403-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 19th day of October, 2020 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

Custody VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF CHARLES CITY Commonwealth of Virginia, in re RA’MEL T WASHINGTON SIERRA A WASHINGTON v.

UNKNOWN FATHER Case No. JJ002566-01-00, JJ002566-02-00, ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Establish sole parental custody of Ra’mel T. Washington and determine visitation.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before December 9, 2020, at 10:30 AM. VIRGINIA: IN THE JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Commonwealth of Virginia, in re MARLAYSIA TARSHAI SMITH v.

UNKNOWN FATHER Case No. JJ097343-05-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) for Unknown (Father), of Marlaysia Tarshai Smith, child, DOB 9/01/2007, “TPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Unknown Father, to appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before November 16, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Courtroom #4.

VIRGINA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO IN THE MATTER OF: The proposed adoption of Ava Nicole Townes and Steven Jeremiah Townes By Latesha Alexis Peay and Henry Earl Peay, Jr. CASE NO: CA20-21-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to: 1. Terminate the parental rights of the birth father, Steven Alan Townes, Jr., the biological birth father of Ava Nicole Townes and Steven Jeremiah Townes; 2. To grant leave to Henry Earl Peay, Jr to adopt, Ava Nicole Townes date of birth July 14, 2014; and Steven Jeremiah Townes date of birth is December 28, 2010; and 3. To have the name of said children names changed to Ava Nicole Peay and Jeremiah Lamont Peay.

It is ORDERED that Steven Alan Townes, Jr., appear at the above-named Court and protect her interests on or before October 26, 2020.

An Extract Teste: Heidi S. Barshinger, Clerk I ask for this: Lynn L. Robinson, Esquire (VSB #43143) 8 West Leigh Stre t Richmond, Virginia 23220 TEL: (804) 225-9027 FAX: (804) 225-9076

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

T. C. HOULIARES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-2163 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 4001 Rear McKay Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C009-0424/022, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, T. C. Houliares, Frances M. Houliares, Matthew J. Jacobs and Ester H. Jacobs.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, T. C. HOULIARES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owners, FRANCES M. HOULIARES and MATTHEW J. JACOBS, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, ESTER H. JACOBS, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that T. C. HOULIARES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, FRANCES M. HOULIARES, MATTHEW J. JACOBS, ESTER H. JACOBS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND MERRICK U. COX 4225 Martha Lane Richmond, VA 23234, Plaintiff, vs.

GLORIA A. KENNY UNKNOWN, Defendant.

Civil No. 760CL2000415000-5 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

Comes now Plaintiff, Merrick U. Cox, by counsel, to be heard on Plaintiff’s complaint to quiet title to the subject property described as 2210 Keswick Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map ID: S007-1081/004, that Plaintiff purchased by Deed, dated September 30, 2005, from the Defendant, Plaintiff having secured the purchase by a certain Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 050034089, at Page 1435 on October 3 2005; and

Plaintiff having made all installments payments to Defendant timely, and did, in fact, make additional payments erroneously;

Plaintiff and John G. Chaplin, Jr., Trustee, for the above-referenced Deed of Trust securing the Plaintiff’s debt, have made diligent efforts to contact Defendant, to no avail, to have Defendant execute a Certification of Satisfaction releasing the lien on Plaintiff’s property.

On information, not officially substantiated, it is Plaintiff’s belief that Defendant has passed away; she was elderly at the time of the property’s purchase and sale in 2005, and no longer can be found at her usual residence.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk

File/Case No. 760CWF200000498

All persons, firms or corporations having claims against, Alvin Roy Barrett, Deceased, late of 2614 Lamb Avenue, Richmond City, Virginia, are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before October 24th or this notice

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ALTHEA V. HENRY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-2372 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 5101 Walmsley Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number C008-0857/032, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Althea V. Henry.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ALTHEA V. HENRY, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

DEBORAH D. ROSS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-2374 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1533 Rogers Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000930/040, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Deborah D. Ross.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DEBORAH D. ROSS, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has/have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DEBORAH D. ROSS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

THE LMT LAND TRUST, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-1681 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3402 P Street, Tax Map Number E000-0964/025, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, The LMT Land Trust.

An Affidavit having been

filed that said creditors, LIS LUIS FRANCISCO HUERTA, F I D E L F R A N CI S CO CRUZ ESTRADA, ROSA Y E S E N I A E S CO B A R , TEODOSIA SAUCEDO, JOSE M OR A Z A N MIRANDA, RAFAEL ANGEL MALDONADO VARGAS, RO B ER T O M ORE N O CI S N ERO S , M A N U E L MALDONADO, GONZALES A G U I L A R , J OR G E C .

MARTINEZ HERNANDEZ, MARIO ALVAREZ, SERGIO A R T U RO C A S T RO SOLIS, DAVID EUGENIO G A M ERO A N D ORO , RO S A D E L C A R M E N S A N D O B A L COR T E Z , IVON MODESTA GOMEZ, VICTOR M. ESPINO, JOSE ALEJANDRO JUAREZ, P A S T OR A N T O N IO E S CO B A R M U N O Z , M AY N OR M A U RICIO MUNOZ BONILLA, JOSE FRANCISCO RUIZ, JOSE ATLLANO ARIOS JAIME, S A N T O S E D U RI G E S ESCOBAR, JUAN VARGAS CO, DAVID VALENCIA A R T E A G A , G ER A R D O HERNANDEZ FACUNDO, CESAR HUERTA DIAZ, LUIS MICHEL GOMEZ, ALEX ABIMAEL HERRERA GONZALES, IMELDO DEL CARMEN MUNOZ, KARLA ESPINOZA, RENE MALDONADO AND JUAN C A R L O S A LVA R A D O M OR A L E S , a r e t o b e proceed against by Order of Publication pursuant to Section 8.01-316(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia, that L. V. LAWRENCE, upon information and belief deceased, Trustee of THE LMT LAND TRUST, or her successor/s in title, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that DEBORAH K. FOURNESS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 0727846 on August 15, 2007 per a certificate of transfer filed at Instrument Number 09-2101 on February 3, 2009, Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MARTHA GAINES, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-2945 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2410 Old Dominion Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S000-0567/007, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Martha Gaines, Elvira Gaines and Sterling Gaines.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, MARTHA GAINES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, ELVIRA GAINES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and STERLING GAINES, Continued on next column

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ANTOINETTE L. BLAND, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-2370 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1706 South Meadow Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number W000-0875/013, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Antoinette L. Bland.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ANTOINETTE L. BLAND, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that CITIBANK NA, an entity not listed in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ANTOINETTE L. BLAND, CITIBANK NA, an entity not listed in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

GILBERT F. HOWARD, SR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-1775 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1503 Bowen Street, Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number S0071231/005, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Gilbert F. Howard, Sr, and Frechena B. Howard.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, GILBERT F. HOWARD, SR, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, FRECHENA B. HOWARD, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has/have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

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to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ROBYN MOORE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-1774 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 905 North 31st Street Richmond, Virginia, Tax Map Number E0000724/058 to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Robyn Moore.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, ROBYN MOORE, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has/have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parties Unknown.â&#x20AC;?

IT IS ORDERED that ROBYN MOORE, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before NOVEMBER 12, 2020 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND John Marshall Courts Building QUALITY LIFE OF VIRGINIA, LLC, and LARRY C. MILES, SR., as Trustee of Word for Living Ministries Plaintiffs, v.

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RIYAN MILES, JAMES MILES, YOLANDA MILES, HEIKO MOESSNER, and any unknown heirs, beneficiaries, devisees, assigns, creditors, successors-in-interest, and any other unknown persons claiming by, through and under Lucille B. Miles, deceased, and any unknown persons claiming an interest in City of Richmond Tax Parcel No. E0001086010, if any there be (â&#x20AC;&#x153;UNKNOWN PARTIESâ&#x20AC;?), Defendants.

Case No.: CL20-3965-2 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

In this proceeding, plaintiffs Quality Life of Virginia, LLC (â&#x20AC;&#x153;QLOVâ&#x20AC;?) and Larry C. Miles, Sr., as Trustee of Word for Living Ministries (collectively, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plaintiffsâ&#x20AC;?), seek inter alia the entry of an Order declaring that QLOV is the rightful owner of the property located at 1738 North 28th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23223 (Tax Parcel Identification No. E0001086010) (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Subject Propertyâ&#x20AC;?) and vesting QLOV with fee simple title to the Subject Property.

And it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the following persons may have an interest in the Subject Property and that they are not residents of the Commonwealth and/or their

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names and/or addresses are not known and that diligence has been used by and on behalf of Plaintiffs to ascertain such names and addresses without effect: Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RIYAN MILES JAMES MILES YOLANDA MILES HEIKO MOESSNER THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OF LUCILLE B. MILES and PARTIES UNKNOWN

It is ORDERED that the aforesaid parties appear on or before October 14, 2020, in the Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

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One Way Market LLC Trading as: One Way Market 404 N 1st Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-1702 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer Off Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Denise Johnson, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

ABC License SP Broad Street LLC Trading as: Sorora 11 W Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23220 The above establishment is applying to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine and Beer on premise, Mixed Beverages restaurant license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

Neal Patel, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

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The Dessert Diva RVA LLC Trading as: The Dessert Diva RVA 1726 Altamont Ave Ste C Richmond, Virginia 23230-4532 The above establishment is applying to the V irginia A lcoholic B everage C ontrol (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Confectionery license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages.

NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-5523200.

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B8 September 24-26, 2020

Richmond Free Press

A cleaner energy future is on the horizon.

As a leader in wind and solar, we take our responsibility to the planet very seriously.

That is why we are developing the country’s largest offshore wind project—one which will produce enough energy to power 660,000 homes by 2026. We have also added more than 2.5 million solar panels throughout Virginia since 2015, helping to make us America’s third largest in solar. While our commitment to cleaner energy has made us a national leader in sustainability, it is our commitment to future generations that inspires us every day. For more information, visit DominionEnergy.com.

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