Michael Paul Williams

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.

For all its shiny new trappings and resurgent self esteem, Virginia's capital city will not realize its full potential as long as impoverished and neglected communities remain as sites of decay and suffering.

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

Richmond Isaiah Allen Jackson III, a renowned conductor and former music director at Dayton Philharmonic, died last month. He was 80. Mr. Jackson would go on to achieve national and international prominence as the music director of the Royal Ballet in London and the Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a popular guest conductor for his hometown symphony and others worldwide.

In Chicago, a stranger’s gift of two museum tickets became the doorway to a moving visit to the Obama Presidential Center — a reminder, amid America’s 250th birthday and a