Camp Connects New Richmond Family to Community
By Kenyatta Loftis My family and I moved to Richmond almost two and a half years ago from Marin County. At the time, I was concerned about some of the...
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Jun
09
May
Bike To Work Day 2013
Photo Essay • Richmond Health and Environment On Thursday, May 9th, nearly 400 Richmond riders joined the entire East Bay for the 19th annual Bike To Work Day. The City of...
01
May
YMCA of the East Bay Encourages Kids to Play and Learn at Healthy Kids Day
Photo Essay, Gallen.Neilly & Associates On Saturday April 27, over 450 people attended Healthy Kids Day at the Hilltop YMCA. Healthy Kids Day, a national initiative of the YMCA to improve...
26
Apr
Richmond Tales Fest Promotes Literacy
News Report • Malcolm Marshall Civic Center Plaza provided a beautiful backdrop for the fourth annual Richmond Tales Fest on Saturday, April 20. The event is based on the book...
19
Apr
Rick Ross Lyric Shows Rape Isn’t Taken Seriously
By Karina Guadalupe Put Molly all in the champagne. She ain't even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that. She ain't even know it. - Lyics...
14
Apr
Young, Black and Addicted to Fast Food
Commentary • Sean Shavers Editor’s Note: A recent study from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) shows that American youth are still eating too much fast food, and that the...
15
Mar
Richmond Celebrates International Women’s Day, 2013
Photo Essay • David Meza In 2008 Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and her staff, in conjunction with numerous local organizations and community members, organized the city’s first annual International...
12
Feb
Love in the Time of Turf Wars
Play Review • Edgardo Cervano-Soto Walking into the theater at El Cerrito High School for RAW Talent’s new stage play, one automatically sensed there were two parallel stories taking place. One story...
07
Feb
As Beyoncé Endorses Soda, Youth Warn of the ‘Sugar Zombies’
Press Release • Anna Challet, New America Media Ed. Note: Organized in the fall of 2012, the Soda Sucks anti-advertising campaign, sponsored by New America Media, invited youth from across California...
01
Feb
Bringing Richmond’s Black History to Life
Profile, Malcolm Marshall Betty Reid Soskin is our country's oldest National Park Ranger and one of the most beautiful people I have met in Richmond. I had the pleasure of...
21
Jan
Urban Tilth’s MLK Day of Service Showcases Richmond’s Green Thumb
News Feature, Edgardo Cervano-Soto Teams of volunteers in white MLK t-shirts pushed wheelbarrows of compost and struck the ground with shovels for Urban Tilth’s 6th Annual MLK Day of National Service...
14
Jan
Q&A: Byron Hurt and the Dish on ‘Soul Food Junkies’
Question & Answer, Malcolm Marshall Ed. Note: Writer, activist, lecturer and filmmaker Byron Hurt takes on tough subjects for the right reasons. His previous film “Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” explored the...
06
Jan
‘Django Unchained’: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Commentary, Jazmyne Z. Young, Asani Shakur EDITOR'S NOTE: The following two film reviews offer competing perspectives on Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," a movie about a former slave who sets out to...
31
Dec
A Death Retold: Q&A with Filmmaker Ryan Coogler
Leer en Español Question & Answer, Lani Conway, New America Media Editor's Note: At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, 26-year-old filmmaker Ryan Coogler makes his feature debut with "Fruitvale," a drama inspired...
04
Nov
St. Mark’s Catholic Church Celebrates its Centennial
Leer en Español Q & A by Iraida Santillan EDITOR’S NOTE: In Richmond, few things have been around as long as St. Mark’s Catholic Church, which this year is celebrating its 100th...
