I attended a breakfast meeting this morning sponsored by the non-profit group, Hope in the Cities. The keynote speaker was former Mississippi Governor William Winter, a champion of public education who succeeded in passing major education reform legislation for Mississippi while in office.
Considering the massive political upheaval surrounding everything related to the Richmond Public Schools, [...]
The city has compiled a page of information on the draft Downtown Master Plan, including wonderfully detailed maps that can keep you entertained for days- that is if you’re anything like me and often find yourself dreaming about what Richmond could become.
While scanning these fascinating maps, I discovered a whole slew of new parking lots [...]
The 1-way vs. 2-way streets debate is not the only controversy stirred up by the recent downtown design charrette. Perhaps the bigger controversy, the “elephant” in the discussion, if you will, is the divisive topic of race.
In a city that was home to the second largest slave-trading port in America 150 years ago, it [...]
The design for the civil rights memorial, which is to be placed on the grounds of the State Capitol, was unveiled yesterday. Here’s a link to some pictures - I wasn’t sure about posting them here without prior permission. The statue will be placed outside the gates of the executive mansion.
The statue commission [...]
People often use the poem engraved on the Statue of Liberty to reflect on the change in our immigration policies from encouraging desperate working (white) folks to immigrate to privileging skilled workers who already have financial stability. Of course, we all know our immigration policies have little bearing on who actually ends up in [...]
A number of people are ending up at my blog by searching for info about the Reconciliation Statue- and all I have posted is the press release from before the event. So I’ve rounded up all the info I can find about it on the web and I’m putting it all together.
First, my brief [...]
This should be a great event- ambassadors from all over West Africa will be here in little old Richmond, as well as a contingent from Liverpool. There’s already been interesting things happening around town as a result of this statue project, especially yesterday’s conversation between TJ students and students in Liverpool (technical problems prevented students [...]
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