According to a group of ICE watchers and residents of the Southwood Apartments, federal agents have become daily visitors at the complex, which is home to a significant chunk of Richmond's Latino population.
Residents at Southwood said they are witnessing the increase firsthand.
It's cheaper than the show in Richmond because our new amphitheater is ridiculous
I'm seeing them in June and wasn't given a choice not to (as if I'd say no)
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I AM THE THIRD REVELATION. I AM THE THIRD REVELATION. I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU. I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOUR UP.
I just got yelled at in Downtown Richmond for not waiting for the walk signal. Dude, I'm going when the cross street is clear because I don't trust you to yield to me when we both have the green.
“When my food and housing and those base level things aren’t being met, I can’t even begin to work on healing the trauma to move forward." https://bit.ly/3Q5MH3Z
As far as I'm concerned, this is our state song.
Cover of "Funk Beyond the Call of Duty" by The Johnny Guitar Watson
FUNK. BEYOND. THE. CALL. OF. DUTY.
A 1970s photo of Sgt. Elliott's Dad in a gold polyester shirt and a black apple cap with a photo of Mrs. Elliott's Mom in the background.
I'll forever love that my dad brought this gold shirt with him when he was stationed in Germany in the '70s. And that my mom's favorite photo of herself is in the background.
Elliott Robinson in a blue VPM shirt exclusive to Public Media Giving Days
Public Media Days is coming up May 1 & 2. Giving to @vpm.org on those days comes with the ability to snag a shirt like this! www.vpm.org/2023-04-04/w...
I got passed by a Street View car when I was walking to the post office. If I ever remember when it's updated, I'll share my likely blurred image.
@vpm.org’s @jahd.bsky.social is digging into the arguments for and against gerrymandering Virginia's Congressional districts. (That’s when political districts are drawn to favor one political group over another.) Check it out in the first part of our series, Amending Virginia!
A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment. n.pr/3PUBm6t
I need a new washer and dryer. The appliance people came today, took one look at our steep stairs, asked how someone managed to get our current unit up there and said they'd have to come back Monday with another guy or guys. The joys of a 115-year-old building.
About a decade after Zyahna Bryant, then a 15-year-old, led the push to remove Confederate imagery from Charlottesville, the JSAAHC presented 3 proposals for Swords into Plowshares, a project created to repurpose the bronze from the melted-down statue of Robert E. Lee.
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Before you pick a hill on which to die, ask yourself why. Our cultures abhor it, but give yourself time for self examination. Don't let others tell you what you need to do. Sit with yourself. It's hard, but you have to do it. If you are in a bad situation, do not stop hoping for freedom.
My commute from Hopewell to Richmond used to be exactly the length of Impossible Soul by Sufjan Stevens. This 7-Eleven would burst into view at a crescendo.
It's always insulting when something built in the '80s is called "aging" because I was built in the '80s.
You definitely should wear old clothes
Two albums: President Ronald Reagan Reads Stories from the Old Testament and Redemption by John Hinckley Jr.
I love this for me.
I took my car in for service, and my ride to work immediately followed Dirty Diana with Darling Nikki so it's gonna be a good day.
A fight over a tax break for data centers has pushed VA budget negotiations to the last possible minute, with a resolution by Saturday unlikely.
New from the @vpm.org Capitol Correspondents Gruesome Twosome (reporter extraordinaire @jahd.bsky.social & photo god/master of secrets @theshabomb.com):
I just hope that I'm still in a newsroom 20, 30 years from now (hopefully, some form of retirement is in the cards in my 70s), imperfectly aiming for and demanding better for you. And me. And for those who are yet to come.
It's not perfect. It never was. Our brains have a funny way of making a lot of the past seem rosy, innocent, pure. A place to which we should return. I don't know what the future holds. Perhaps we have passed a peak after all. But can't stop trying for something better. And demanding it.
I've seen many good journalists leave the industry due to low pay, job cuts and inane corporate changes to try to keep the money flowing. Newsrooms suffered, and flaws were exposed and amplified. And exploited. But some of us stayed in or joined in the fight for what was left with what was left.
On March 12, 2006, I moved to Petersburg and started my career the day after. Cracks were starting to show in the industry then. The internet somehow caught many owners off guard. The ad sales that nearly made what the newsrooms produced an afterthought were drying up.
I can say, from living in Virginia virtually my whole life, I've seen weirder.
