Michael Paul Williams

Confronting our changing climate and creating an infrastructure to meet its demands requires the sort of consensus nonexistent in a polarized political environment mired in the culture wars. In a

The life story of Dr. William Ferguson Reid — politician, civil rights activist and a former regional medical director for the U.S. State Department — is a vivid rebuttal of the racist fictions being promoted by a MAGA movement that slanders diversity, equity and inclusion and demeans nonwhite achievement.

Jason Kamras has weathered the shutdown of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, a devastating February 2022 fire at Fox Elementary School and a June 2023 mass shooting outside Altria Theater following Huguenot High School's graduation ceremony. Then came a Trump administration intent on slashing funds to public education and dismantling the Department of Education.

There is no triumph in history if we refuse to let it inform us in a journey toward a more just, equitable and inclusive society. Which makes the recent 71st anniversary celebration of Brown v. Education at Virginia Commonwealth University a hollow exercise in hypocrisy.

In an accident of history and Virginia's arcane jurisdictional structure, Henrico captured a tiny piece of Richmond's heart.

Hosting a newsmaker has its place. But Black journalists, in the current environment, are under no obligation to normalize Trump at a time when he is carrying out an unambiguously hostile agenda against Black and Latino people.

Indeed, the DOJ has become so fixated on stoking white grievance and attacking antiracism that it increasingly looks like a Department of Injustice.

On a sunny afternoon in Windsor Farms, on the grounds of a 15th-century Tudor manor house, Morgan Kinne and Corinne Vranas were just a couple of princesses with cone-shaped headdresses,

The school district is playing catch-up amid a school population that — at least on the South Side — is growing along with the city's Latino population. And many aging, substandard buildings remain.

Williams: Our culture wars hit the bottom of the (Cracker) barrel