Kelli Lemon and Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams retrace Richmond, Virginia’s history with Confederate monuments from the monuments being erected, starting in 1890, to their removal in 2022. Lemon and Williams talk about progress made by Black Americans in Richmond in t…
Virginia Union University, in its treatment of the old Richmond Community Hospital building, reveals its preservation of Black history to be a mere façade.
Virginia Union University plans to build a 123-unit residential building while preserving some of the old Richmond Community Hospital, which can be seen on the left side.
06-21-1969 (cutline): Summer's arrival at 9:55 a.m. today found Elmore Tucker and Arthur Hermann at the 17th Street Market, displaying produce from Hermann's farm at Quinton, New Kent County.
Mike O'Neil
08-11-1987 (cutline): Luceal Allen arranges produce in her stand at the Farmer's Market Festival.
P. Kevin Morley
08-16-1980 (cutline): Leonard and Kathy Wheeler (center) sell her handcrafted work on table set up for Farmer's Market festival.
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06-26-1953 (cutline): Wilbur Smith puts a polish on the First Market marker.
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06-25-1986 (cutline): One of two antique terra cotta bulls' heads is prepared for mounting by Ron Kingery yesterday at the 17th Street Market. The heads, originally in place at a public market at Sixth and Marshall streets, were discovered in the Richmond Surplus Property warehouse. They have been restored by the virginia Commonwealth University art history professor Laurence Pace and a student, Linda Blackwell.
Don Pennell
08-01-1986 (cutline): The hoedown celebrating the reopening of the Farmers' Market at 17th and Main streets gets under way at noon Saturday with arts, crafts, music by six bands--and farmers, of course.
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07-09-1981 (cutline): Country delicacies of all sorts, from cantaloupes to green beans, are on sale at the 17th Street Market in Richmond.
Bruce Parker
12-28-1975 (cutline): Local vegetables are beginning to come in a serious way. The 17th Street market stalls are filling up.
The rules reflect a national trend to silence or stifle dissent amid an outbreak of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
Virginia Union University plans to build a 123-unit residential building while preserving some of the old Richmond Community Hospital, which can be seen on the left side.
