Photo Essay • Edgardo Cervano-Soto People call out to Juana Raquel as she pushes her green, wooden, home-built cart through the streets of central Richmond. Children pull back peach-colored curtains and wave from second story apartments for her to stop at their apartments. Regular customers greet her in a friendly manner...
Interview, RP Editors RP: What do homeowners facing foreclosure in Richmond need to know right now about the city's plan to invoke eminent domain? Mayor Gayle McLaughlin: We call it the Cares Program or the Local Sensible Reduction Program because, first and foremost, we would like to continue to call on the...
Commentary, Alicia Marie In this age of social media, it seems there is no limit to the types of extreme -- even violent -- acts people will videotape and post on the Internet. If there’s something happening and there are bystanders, chances are someone is catching it on video. Some people...
News Report, Anna Challet |New America Media While poverty remains at historically high levels, the percentage of people in the United States – especially children – who lack health insurance is declining, according to new data released by the Census Bureau. “The big changes are in health insurance,” said David S....
Read in English Reportaje, Anna Challet Richmond seguirá adelante con sus planes para apoderarse de hipotecas sobrevaloradas usando el derecho de expropiación, haciendo más crucial un caso que probará si una ciudad puede enfrentar a Wall Street y rescatar a los propietarios en problemas por su propia cuenta. "La Ciudad de Richmond y...
Commentary, Yrui Guan and Jimmie Fails • New America Media Ed. Note: Amid all the efforts to reform education, perhaps none promise as large of an impact as the growing use of technology in the classroom. From iPads in every student’s hand to computer adapted assessments and the rise of on-line...
News Feature, Edgardo Cervano-Soto There’s a 21st Century saying that goes, “if you don’t exist in social media...
Blog, Monet Boyd It was Sunday morning, September 15, 1963 and the roaring sound of dynamite rang through Birmingham, Alabama, coming from the 16th Street Baptist Church. A fourteen year old boy named William Bell heard it from 3 miles away. William’s father rushed into the car with his family and went...
Leer en Español News Report • Anna Challet Richmond will move forward with its plans to seize underwater mortgages using eminent domain, raising the stakes in a test case of whether a city can take on Wall Street and rescue troubled homeowners on its own. “The City of Richmond and our residents have...
Photo Essay, Luis Cubas It was a beautiful, sunny day, and the rhythm of the music was perfect, along with the scent of food being cooked. For the fourth consecutive August, the RYSE Center, a nonprofit youth center in Richmond, organized its own Summer Jam, an event that features live music,...
News Feature • April Suwalsky WriterCoach Connection (WCC) is an East Bay-based organization that trains and coordinates volunteers to work one-on-one with middle and high school students as “writing coaches” in their English classes. Coaches help students to hone their writing skills, as well as develop their own writing voices and...
Sabiduria de un Líder Comunitario, Khalid Elahi Nunca conocí el valor completo de la vida hasta que perdí a mi amigo más cercano a la brutalidad de una arma en 1991. Vi los efectos que su muerte tuvo en su familia entera y las metas que nunca cumpliría....
Read in English Reportaje, Malcolm Marshall La estudiante de último año en Richmond High School Maribel Navarro recuerda lo que se siente tener que ir a la sala de emergencia cada vez que tenía un ataque de asma, lo que solía ser seguido. “Cuando era pequeña, mi asma era muy fuerte. Iba...
Leer en Español News Report, Malcolm Marshall Richmond High School senior Maribel Navarro remembers what it felt like to have to go to the emergency room every time she had an asthma attack, which was often. “When I was little, I'd get my asthma really bad. I would go to the hospital...
Read in English Por April Suwalsky Un maestro afecta la eternidad; él nunca puede decir donde se detiene su influencia. –Henry Adams Un nuevo patio escolar verde esta creciendo en Richmond. Localizado en las escuelas Richmond College Prep (RCPS en inglés) en el 1014 Florida Avenue, el Jardín de Aprendizaje del Abuelo Allen...
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