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Right, retired FBI executive Mike Mines stands outside the cabin that once housed enslaved people at The Meadows in Caroline County. Left, Kate Tweedy, an attorney and author, enters the cabin shrouded by trees and shrubs that still stands on the property once owned by her family.

‘Intertwined history’

Descendants of the enslaved and their owners on a noted Caroline County plantation are working together to preserve remnants of their shared history that remain on the land

By Aldore D. Collier

For years, Mike Mines has been fiercely determined to ensure that his two children know what he had not known much of his life — his family’s history.

Kate Chenery Tweedy wanted to know more about her Virginia family’s legacy, including the slaves they owned.

Mr. Mines is Black and Ms. Tweedy is white.

Her ancestors owned his.

Modern technology brought the two of them together in their quest to learn more about their families — both the enslaved and their owners who lived at The Meadow, the legendary Caroline

County farm that in modern times gave the world one of the most famous racehorses of all time, Secretariat.

“I want my kids to get a sense of their own history,” said Mr. Mines, 64, who retired after 30 years with the FBI. “I want to give them a sense of how really bad it was during and after slavery for Blacks.”

Through ancestry.com, Mr. Mines found that his great-greatgrandfather, Guy Mines, was enslaved at The Meadow, a 3,000acre plantation in Caroline County, which is now home to The Meadow Event Park and the State Fair of Virginia.

While doing research on the genealogy site, he unexpectedly met Ms. Tweedy.

“There’s a section on ancestry called ‘Owned by.’And there’s a feature that asked if I wanted to reach out to people doing similar history. And that’s how I met Kate Tweedy,” Mr. Mines said.

“She had done extensive research on The Meadow,” he said.

His first contact with her was in 2020. They emailed each other then met virtually on Zoom.

“I gave her my research and she gave me hers,” Mr. Mines said. “We compared notes and agreed to get together after COVID.” Ms. Tweedy, 70, a retired attorney living in Ashland, had done Please turn to A8

Abortion battle erupts with leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion Free Press wire, staff report

America’s decades-old battle over abortion rights exploded anew on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court authenticated a draft opinion leaked to the news outlet Politico that signaled the court will soon overturn the landmark 1973

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Abortion rights advocates demonstrate Tuesday outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. Advocates were met by anti-abortion advocates, who also gathered outside the building to show their support for Roe to be struck down.

Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

President Biden denounced the expected move as “radical” as Democrats in Washington and in statehouses scrambled to try to find a response to defend a right that women in the United States

have held for almost half a century.

Some moderate Republicans also were dismayed, but social conservatives were delighted even as they voiced anger that the opinion was leaked.

The court confirmed that the draft opinion, published late on Monday by Politico, was authentic but said it did not represent the final decision of the justices, which is due by the end of June.

Chief Justice John Roberts announced an investigation into how the draft — authored by Justice Samuel Alito of the court’s conservative 6-3 majority — was leaked, calling it a “betrayal” Please turn to A4

Former city worker and union advocate: ‘I had no one to go to bat for me’

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Andrew Thomas hoped to build a career in the Richmond Department of Public Utilities.

Instead, the 49-year-old Jamaica native has quit the department after seven years.

He said he was tired of the verbal abuse that he said supervisors meted out almost daily and that no one in authority would stop.

He was aggravated that, after he was

diagnosed with cancer, the city never assisted him to get disability payments that he had paid for through his paycheck.

And he is upset that the city never provided any accommodation, such as allowing him to drive a truck, after his physician authorized him to do “light duty” work.

“I had no one to go to bat for me,” said Mr. Thomas, who said he would only consider returning if there were a union in place to represent him.

The city does not comment on person-

nel matters, making it nearly impossible to get their side.

Mr. Thomas’ view of the abuse he faced, documented in an internal investigation by the city Department of Human Resources and obtained by the Free Press, is shared by others on the city payroll — fueling the movement for an employee union that could fight for improved working conditions and compensation.

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Free Press wins 15 awards in annual VPA contest

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Uplifting event Five-month-old Royal Smith giggles as his grandmother, Deanna Casey, lifts him high at Arts in the Park at The Carillon in Byrd Park. The infant enjoyed the stroll to look at artwork with his grandmother and mother, D’Asia Hill.

Thousands of people flocked to the festival that returned after a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. Please see more photos, B2.

The Richmond Free Press continues its 30-year tradition of award-winning excellence.

The newspaper was recognized with 15 awards, including five first place awards, in the annual Virginia Press Association competition in writing, photography, news presentation and advertising.

The contest for work published in 2021 was judged by members of the Pennsylvania Press Association. The winners were announced in a series of virtual presentations last week.

Multi-talented Free Press Sports writer Fred Jeter won first place in the Illustrations category for “The art of sport,” a page featuring several of his original drawings of national and local Black athletes, from Wilt Chamberlain and Arthur Ashe Jr. to basketball player Frank Mason III of Petersburg. The package of drawings ran in the Feb. 25-27, 2021, edition during Black History Month.

“Great original way to tell stories of Black athletes for Black History Month,” the judges noted in awarding first place to Mr. Jeter.

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Andrew Thomas, 49, quit his job with the City of Richmond after he says little to no accommodation was made after he was diagnosed with cancer or to help him receive disability.

Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations: • Thursday, May 5, 4 to 7 p.m. – Broad Rock Sports Complex, 4899 Old Warwick Road.

Walk-up testing is provided. Appointments, however, can be set by calling (804) 205-3501 or going to www.rchd.com.

Call the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at

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City offers amnesty for past-due parking ticket penalties Good news for people with old, unpaid Richmond parking tickets: City Hall will waive the penalties if the tickets are paid

by Monday, Sept. 12.

The amnesty is for tickets issued prior to Monday, May 2, the city Department of Public Works announced Monday.

The penalty forgiveness is being put in place “in light of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has on those who live and work in Richmond,” according to a news release from DPW, which oversees parking enforcement.

Unpaid tickets can double in cost over time. For example, a $25 ticket that is unpaid will cost $35 after 15 days when penalties are tacked on. The same ticket, unpaid, will cost $45 after two months and $50 after 75 days.

The new program will restore the price to $25 if paid within the five-month window.

New tickets going forward, though, will incur penalties, officials stated.

Also, the amnesty only applies to penalties imposed by the city and does not impact state Department of Motor Vehicle fees.

VCU receives formal designation as minorityserving institution Free Press staff report

Virginia Commonwealth University officially has joined the ranks of schools with a federal designation for serving minority students.

VCU was just received the U.S. Department of Education’s designation as a minority-serving institution, or MSI, largely because of its focus on serving students of Asian and Pacific Island heritage.

VCU’s designation means that at least 10 percent of the student body is Asian-American or Pacific Islander and that 50 percent of such students are eligible for Pell grants or other federal support programs.

“This designation is an affirmation of what we see every day – that our student body is beautifully diverse and inclusive,” said Dr. Michael Rao, president of VCU and VCU Health.

“Nearly one-third of our student body is Pell-eligible and a third are first-generation students,” Dr. Rao noted. “More than half of our students are from minority populations, while more than a third are from under-represented minorities.

“Becoming an MSI supports our commitment to putting the needs of students and patients first at VCU,” he stated.

VCU also qualified for the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program, which recognizes colleges and universities serving a high proportion of low-income students.

The MSI makes VCU eligible for grants that the U.S. Department of Education currently provides to 38 other schools, mostly located in California and other western states that serve large numbers of students with Asian and Pacific Island heritage.

The designation also provides VCU professors access to certain federal grant programs available to MSIs that could expand the ability to “serve and conduct research,” according to Dr. P. Srirama Rao, VCU’s vice president for research and innovation.

Dr. Aashir Nasim, VCU’s chief diversity officer, said the new designation could help in recruiting a more diverse faculty and make the school more attractive to graduate students.

The MSI program covers other categories, including historically Black colleges and universities or HBCUs, currently 108; Hispanic-serving institutions, currently 274; and Native American Tribal colleges and universities, currently 35.

Before VCU’s designation, Virginia Union University and Virginia State University were the only recognized MSIs in the RichmondPetersburg area through their designations as HBCUs.

School Board reverses course, approves River City Middle rezoning

By Ronald E. Carrington

The Richmond School Board approved a rezoning plan for River City Middle School that will alleviate the overcrowding that has occurred in the first year of the school’s opening for in-person learning.

The board’s 8-1 vote on Monday night came a week after a flood of emails from parents and educators who supported a rezoning plan that was rejected on a 5-4 vote of the board on April 25. The original plan also was endorsed by speakers during an hour and a half of public comments Monday night.

Under the plan, roughly 450 students would be rezoned from River City Middle School during the 2022-23 academic year to three other schools — Lucille Brown and Boushall middle schools, which also are located in South Side, and Binford Middle School, which is located north of the James River in The Fan. River City Middle, located at 6300 Hull Street Road, opened its doors in September to more than 1,500 students. It was built for 1,300 students. And officials projected that enrollment would grow to about 1,700 students by fall 2024.

“No matter how beautiful (River City Middle) is, it’s too close. It’s too packed,” board member Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District, a retired Richmond Public Schools principal, told her colleagues about what she saw on a recent visit.

“This is the year 2022. This is not a destitute island, a Third World country. How dare we treat our children that way,” she said.

Four members of the School Board reversed their opposition from last week and voted to approve the rezoning — Board Chairwoman Shonda Harris-Muhammed, 6th District; Vice Chair Kenya J. Gibson, 3rd District; Mariah L. White, 2nd District; and Stephanie M. Rizzi, 5th District.

They joined board members Mrs. Burke; Liz B. Doerr, 1st District; Dawn C. Page, 8th District; and Nicole Jones, 9th District, in supporting the rezoning plan that had been drafted by a committee composed of teachers, principals, parents, transportation personnel and community members.

Board member Jonathan M. Young, 4th District, maintained his opposition against the plan, saying he believes it irresponsible for the board to take away open enrollment opportunities for RPS students and parents.

Superintendent Jason Kamras told the Free Press on Tuesday that he was pleased with the board’s decision.

“I am thrilled the community rezoning plan has passed and grateful to the board for making that decision,” he said. “I am also grateful for all of the people who came out to the board meeting and spoke. It helps to have more voices at the table.”

With the rezoning, River City Middle will operate at 78 percent of capacity for the 2022-23 academic year; Binford at 74 percent; Boushall at 74 percent and Lucille Brown at 76 percent.

Binford, an open enrollment school, would be rezoned so that 50 River City students will be guaranteed seats.

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Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Jerry Wyatt, 64, of Mechanicsville proudly stands beside his shiny green 1969 Chevrolet Nova, just one of the classic cars that filled the parking lot Saturday at the Richmond Heritage Federal Credit Union, 50 W. Commerce Road in South Side. The show and sale of the restored cars celebrated the 86th birthday of the financial institution that Black Richmond teachers and Virginia Union University professors organized in 1936 during the Great Depression as a selfhelp organization. Long based in Jackson Ward, the member-owned credit union purchased this site in South Richmond in 2000 for its headquarters.

Proposed city budget includes help for aging mobile homes and examination of real estate taxes

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

For the first time, Richmond will help pay for fixing up aging trailers and mobile homes.

City Council included $300,000 in the pending 2022-23 budget for that purpose at the request of Councilwomen Katherine Jordan, 2nd District, and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District.

The appropriation is a response to a lobbying effort from the faith-based organization Richmonders Involved in Strengthening Our Communities, or RISC, which broached the idea of renovating trailers with significant defects during its spring meeting with City Council members.

The money is to Ms. Robertson be used to help cashstrapped residents in mobile home parks in the city cover the cost of critical repairs to avoid having their homes condemned, Ms. Trammell told her colleagues.

The funding is among the initiatives the council included in their version of the city’s spending plan for the budget year that will begin July 1. The council is poised to vote Monday, May 9, on the package of budget bills.

Other initiatives include possible changes in the taxation of real estate, a key component of city revenue. Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, secured support for her plan to pay $130,000 to Housing Opportunities Made Equal to examine the fairness of property valuations.

She told her colleagues she believes that

values in the majority-Black and Latino areas of the city have been kept artificially depressed even as values soared in other parts of the city. In her view, the values began increasing only after newcomers began buying up the depressed property and essentially displacing existing residents.

Ms. Robertson suggested the lower values in non-white areas exemplify the infusion of racial bias into real estate and led to displacement of Black and Brown residents. She wants HOME to take a fresh look at the process of valuing property to ensure it is equitable and to offer recommendations to ensure that racial bias is eliminated from the process.

Separately, Councilman Andreas D. Addison, 1st District, Mr. Addison gained backing for an $80,000 investment to look into Land Value Taxation, a 19th- century concept that shifts the focus of property taxation from the valuation of buildings to the valuation of the land.

Richmond would be the first locality in the state to consider this concept that the General Assembly authorized at least three years ago.

Currently, real estate, including the building and land, is taxed at $1.20 per $100 of assessed value, he said. Under LVT, buildings might be assessed at 10 cents per $100 of value, while the land might be assessed at $2.50 per $100 of assessed value.

Mr. Addison said that a shift to LVT would mean value increases in land would be greater in areas zoned for commercial,

retail or multi-family projects, with little or no increase in stable residential areas where prospects for new development are meager.

He said he started thinking about the idea given the current payment structure for property tax revenue.

“Sixty percent of our real estate revenues comes from homeowners,” Mr.Addison said.

“In most other cities, it is 40 percent. We are dependent on gentrification for our increasing revenues to pay for services.”

Growth in tax revenues comes from new owners paying higher prices for homes and other buildings, while land that is vacant or has a underused or abandoned building on it is assessed for less.

Under LVT, that would change, Mr. Addison said. Values and property taxes on land in residential areas would remain stable given the meager prospects for development, protecting homeowners from tax spikes. Meanwhile, land zoned for apartments or business development could see rising valuations.

In his view, LVT would push growth as “it would make vacant and empty lots and surface parking lots more attractive for development as their tax bill would increase significantly since there are no buildings on such properties. Density becomes a way to grow our revenues.”

City Assessor Richie McKeithen said the idea would represent a major shift in valuing property and require substantial study on the impact on assessed values and city revenues.

“That is what my budget amendment is for,” Mr. Addison said, “to create the analysis and provide the information to educate people on what LVT does and how it works.”

City officials tout efforts, framework to prevent gun violence

By George Copeland Jr.

Richmond officials have recommended investing more than $140 million in federal and local funds for a multi-pronged approach to intervening in the lives of those affected by gun violence, tackling the root causes behind the violence and preventing further injury and death.

That investment was recommended as part of a gun violence prevention and intervention framework released last Tuesday, following a panel discussion between two dozen representatives from groups that helped develop it.

The framework is the culmination of community research and programs tackling gun violence that began in 2018, with a “both/and” approach to the issue and its solutions, according to Mayor Levar M. Stoney.

“It’s critical to acknowledge that gun violence cannot and will not be solved overnight,” Mayor Stoney said. “It will take time, sustained resources and dedicated partners to curb violence.”

The framework is focused in large part on Richmond residents between the ages of 10 and 24, who accounted for a record number of victims and arrests in 2021, according to data from the Richmond Police Department.

The framework’s release comes as violence in Richmond has shifted from previous years. According to statistics released last week by Richmond Police Chief Gerald M. Smith, 12 homicides had occurred in Richmond at that point in 2022, a slight decline from the 13 homicides recorded within the first quarter of 2021. A total of 90 homicides were recorded in 2021.

Violent crime, meanwhile, has de-

creased from previous years, from 228 reports of sexual assault, homicides, aggravated assaults and robberies in the first quarter of 2021, to 219 in 2022, according to Chief Smith.

Property crimes, however, were cited as a major contributor to Richmond’s high crime rate so far this year, with a total of 2,188 reports of burglary, larceny and auto theft during the first quarter of 2022 compared to 1,636 reports during the same time in 2021.

Chief Smith touted the released framework as a step in the right direction for Richmond.

“The gun violence Chief Smith initiative that was released yesterday, that is the way you do it,” Chief Smith said. “We can go out there and do our job and lock as many people up who commit crimes as we can.

But the way you actually stop it and lower numbers and keep them down and sustain them is through a community effort.”

In terms of prevention, the framework includes $1 million for youth violence prevention programs, $200,000 to lay the groundwork for universal pre-school for 3- and 4-year-olds and $500,000 for the first City of Richmond Children’s Fund.

The framework also recommends expanding child care and pre-school access, and continuing the work of the Community Ambassador program and the city’s youthfocused workforce development programs.

These proposals would be supported in large part through more than $3 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding that was allocated to Richmond.

“It’s important to have a coordinated

framework to address this issue,” said Torey Edmunds, a community youth engagement coordinator with VCU Health. “You must understand the risk and protective factors at all levels—individual, relational, community and at the social level.”

According to Chief Smith, applications for prospective violence interrupters are being reviewed, with a focus on hiring and training three Richmond residents with deep, trusted relationships with the Richmond community and similar experiences to those who commit gun violence. Those selected will be directed at emerging points of community unrest through their supervisor, who will work with the Richmond Police Department’s major crimes and investigative units.

“I can’t speak on the others who’ve been doing this type of work,” said Chief Smith when asked about the concerns groups have raised about the city’s approach to community messengers. “I have no idea what their efforts were. I don’t know if they’ve ever reached out to us … but our violence interrupters will have the resources of the city behind them, as well as the organization of the police department.”

The framework also details current and future initiatives to address the root causes of gun violence, from increasing the Richmond Public Schools budget by $51 million, to expanding community center access and partnerships. Officials also are working to establish a community resource center in City Hall. And the city’s first Health Equity Trust Fund will be created through a partnership with the Richmond City Health District to address documented health inequities in the city ranging from COVID-19 to mental health, food insecurity and more.

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Abortion battle erupts with leaked high Court draft opinion Continued from A1

of the confidentiality of the judicial process.

“This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the court and the community of public servants who work here,” Chief Justice Roberts said, pledging that the disclosure will not undermine the integrity of the court’s operations.

The person who leaked the draft has not been identified.

Nonetheless, the leaked document is galvanizing people on both sides of the issue. Hundreds of people gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on Monday night and Tuesday to express their dismay with or support of the likely decision. Supporters of abortion rights chanted “Off our bodies” and “Abortion is health care,” while their opponents responded: “Pro-choice is a lie, babies never choose to die.”

In Virginia, abortion rights activists vowed to protect women’s health care and privacy rights, while anti-abortion activists said they will continue to push to outlaw abortion in the Commonwealth.

“Currently, beagles have more rights to humane treatment than the unborn,” said state Sen. Amanda Chase of Chesterfield, who sponsored legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

“Criminals have more due process than the unborn.”

She pledged to continue her efforts to curb abortions and said such laws should be left to state legislatures “whose representatives are elected by the people,” and not to “unelected judges.”

Republican Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin, who campaigned on limiting abortion access in Virginia, reiterated in an interview Tuesday that he is pro-life. “I’ve been very clear about that since the day I launched my campaign,” he told Virginia Scope, a political newsletter.

But he dodged questions about how far he would take any abortion prohibitions, saying “We are going to have to wait until the Supreme Court decision is final before we can really define where we’re going to go.”

He said, however, that “Virginians want fewer abortions.”

Democrats fired back.

“While Republicans will undoubtedly launch new attacks on a women’s right to choose, Virginia Democrats remain deeply committed to protecting Virginians’ right to an abortion,” Susan Swecker, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Virginia, said in a statement. “We will fight every single effort put forward by Gov. Youngkin and Republican leadership to criminalize abortion and will ensure that Virginians have access to health care and reproductive health care they need.”

Women’s health groups don’t expect any immediate change in Virginia should Roe v. Wade be reversed. Currently under state law, abortions can be performed by licensed medical staff in the first three months of pregnancy and at a state-licensed hospital during the second trimester.

However, in the final three months of pregnancy, abortions are allowed only if three physicians agree the pregnancy will lead to the woman’s death or “substantially and irremediably impair the mental or physical health of the woman.” Written consent is required and life support must be available for the fetus if it survives the procedure.

A ruling by the court striking down Roe would give many Republicans and religious conservatives a victory they have chased for decades.

“It’s a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence,” President Biden said Tuesday of Justice Alito’s draft ruling, arguing that such a decision would call into question other rights including same-sex marriage, which the court recognized in 2015.

“If it becomes the law, and if what is written is what remains, it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose,” President Biden added, referring to abortion rights.

Free COVID-19 vaccines Continued from A1 (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for more information on testing sites, or go online at vax.rchd.com.

The Virginia Department of Health also has a list of COVID-19 testing locations around the state at www.vdh. virginia.gov/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/covid-19-testingsites.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walk-up COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations: • Saturday, May 7, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Highland Springs Community Day, 305 E. Nine Mile Road, Pfizer and Moderna.

Children ages 5 to 17 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Vaccinations and booster shots are available for all eligible on a walk-in basis. People still may schedule an appointment online at vaccinate.virginia.gov or vax.rchd.com, or by calling (804) 205-3501 or (877) VAX-IN-VA (1-877-829-4682).

VaccineFinder.org and vaccines.gov also allow people to find nearby pharmacies and clinics that offer the COVID-19 vaccine and booster.

Those who are getting a booster shot should bring their vaccine card to confirm the date and type of vaccine received.

RHHD also offers at-home vaccinations by calling (804) 205-3501 to schedule an appointment.

A total of 3,187 new cases of COVID-19 were reported statewide Wednesday for the 24-hour period, contributing to an overall state total of 1,710,272 cases in Virginia since the pandemic’s outbreak. As of Wednesday, there have been 449,705 hospitalizations and 20,256 deaths statewide. The state’s seven-day positivity rate rose to 10.4 percent on Wednesday. Last week, the positivity rate was 8.5 percent.

State health officials reported on Wednesday that 73.3 percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 81.9 percent have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

State data also showed that nearly 3 million people in Virginia have received booster shots or third doses of the vaccine.

Among those ages 5 to 11 in Virginia, 314,354 have received their first shots, accounting for 43.4 percent of the age group in the state, while 268,356 children, or 37 percent, are fully vaccinated and 577 children have received a booster shot or third dose. As of Wednesday, fewer than 142,600 cases, 863 hospitalizations and nine deaths have been recorded among children in the state.

State data also shows that African-Americans comprised 22.2 percent of cases statewide and 23.2 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 11.9 percent of cases and 5.1 percent of deaths.

Reported COVID-19 data as of Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths Richmond 45,591 1,093 510 Henrico County 66,206 1,445 933 Chesterfield County 74,435 1,413 759 Hanover County 22,101 586 284

Vice President Kamala Harris blasted efforts to turn back the clock on a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion and to reverse Roe, which she said protects the fundamental right to privacy.

“What is clear is that opponents of Roe want to punish women and take away their rights to make decisions about their own bodies. Republican legislators in states across the country are weaponizing the use of the law against women,” she said in a statement.

“The rights of all Americans are at risk. If the right to privacy is weakened, every person could face a future in which the government can potentially interfere in the personal decisions you make about your life. This is the time to fight for women and for our country with everything we have.”

The Roe decision recognized that the right to personal privacy under the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s ability to terminate her pregnancy.

Biden vowed to work toward getting Congress to pass legislation codifying the Roe ruling and urged voters to back candidates in the Nov. 8 congressional elections who support abortion rights.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber will vote next week on such legislation even though a similar Democratic-backed bill already failed this year.

Amid Republican opposition, the razor-thin Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate is not enough to overcome Senate rules requiring a supermajority to advance most legislation.

Even if the new Senate vote fails, as is almost inevitable, Democrats could use it to bolster their chances in the midterm elections in which Republicans are hoping to regain control of Congress.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans said they are more likely to back candidates who support the right to abortion in the November vote, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Tuesday.

However, 13 states have passed so-called “trigger laws” that would immediately ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses Roe. On Tuesday, the governor of Oklahoma signed a ban outlawing abortions after six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.

At least three Democratic-led states have passed measures this year to protect abortion rights.

Planned Parenthood, a national organization that provides a range of health services to women including abortions, said it was horrified by the draft ruling, although its clinics remain open for now.

“While we have seen the writing on the wall for decades, it is no less devastating,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, the group’s president.

The case at issue involves a Republican-backed Mississippi ban on abortion starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy, a law blocked by lower courts.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Justice Alito wrote in the draft opinion.

Roe allowed abortions to be performed before a fetus would be viable outside the womb, between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. Based on Justice Alito’s opinion, the court would find that Roe was wrongly decided because the Constitution makes no specific mention of abortion rights.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” Justice Alito wrote.

Former city worker and union advocate: ‘I had no one to go to bat for me’ Continued from A1

this week, members of the governing body heard from social workers advocating for a union who said they are berated for not meeting reporting deadlines despite being swamped with cases. One social worker reported having 2,000 cases.

“There is no way to meet deadlines,” she said. “Everyone knows that,” she said, but the stress from managers continues.

The concerns employees voice over unfair treatment stretch from the city Department of Finance to the Department of Public Works. Currently, city employees do not have contracts, and employees have been forced to sue the city to gain overtime pay.

Mr. Thomas’ case exemplifies what city employees can face.

He joined the city in 2014 and worked in the warehouse. His problems began after he was assigned to work with on corrosion issues with a supervisor, according to statements Mr. Thomas provided to investigators from the Human Resources department.

Mr. Thomas said he felt compelled to seek a reassignment after discovering that the supervisor, identified in the report as Alonzo White, allegedly was operating a side business during the workday. He brought the situation to supervisors, and two months later was reassigned to work on the pipefitting team under a different supervisor in February 2020.

He recounted one incident in which a pipefitting supervisor, Valonta Thompson, cursed and abused him when he showed up for an assignment.

Mr. Thomas also alleged to investigators that Mr. Thompson daily called him “rat and a snitch” for reporting Mr. White’s activities.

“It was ongoing every day,” Mr. Thomas stated in the report. “Mr. Thompson did this in front of … other co-workers.”

According to Mr. Thomas, another supervisor he was later assigned to, Sebastian A. Pryor, often berated him and “timed his lunch breaks.” According to the report, Mr. Pryor also required Mr. Thomas to carry all the equipment.

But despite Mr. Pryor’s claim that he was “training” Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thomas

City Council expected to take up unionization plan for all city workers City of Richmond employees could soon have the opportunity to organize and bargain on wages, benefits and working conditions.

City Council appears close to advancing a plan allowing all local government workers to unionize, spurning Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s proposal that would allow only labor and trade employees to do so.

On Monday, May 9, the council will review an updated proposal advanced by City Councilwomen Kristen Nye, 4th District, and Reva M. Trammell, 8th District.

Under the proposal, the council would have the final say on approving expenditures required to cover the cost of wages and benefits and other items agreed to between the city administration and bargaining units. Strikes also would be banned.

In preparation, the council included $330,000 in its 2022-23 spending plan to cover initial administrative expenses after July 1, an amount recommended by the Stoney administration.

The modified plan Ms. Nye and Ms. Trammell are advancing would authorize three bargaining units, one for police officers, one for firefighters and one for general employees, if employees vote to create them.

The amended plan also would protect workers from discipline for receiving or sending communications on union matters during the workday, Ms. Nye said.

The amended plan also would allow employee unions to bargain on virtually all issues, except for matters of police misconduct that could be taken up by a proposed civilian review board, she said.

All nine members of City Council appear supportive of the concept, and expectations are that five or more members will embrace the amended plan. The approval vote could take place by the end of May. If the plan is approved, Richmond would join Arlington County and Alexandria in embracing the authority the General Assembly provided last year to allow public service unions in local government entities. Richmond Public Schools earlier this year became the first school district in the state to allow teachers and staff to unionize.

— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

stated that Mr. Pryor never did anything else to ensure he was occupationally qualified.

Mr. Thomas stated that Mr. Pryor, before he left the city, also gave him a negative performance evaluation because he had reported Mr. Pryor’s mistreatment.

Mr. White did not respond to Free Press request for comment, and Mr. Thompson and Mr. Pryor could not be reached for comment.

Mr. Thomas also stated that after starting cancer treatment, he kept getting harassing phone calls and emails from the city demanding to know why he was not coming to work and threatening to fire him. He said the harassment continued even though he and his doctor sent notices to appropriate officials informing that the treatment he was undergoing would not allow him to return to work.

“It was so frustrating,” Mr. Thomas said.

“I would send them the information, and they would keep calling,” he said, noting

it took repeated effort to get the calls and emails to stop.

He said he had paid for an Aflac disability policy through payroll deduction, and it was supposed to go into force after he used up his city sick leave. But it never happened, he said, and he said the city’s HR staff did not intervene to ensure he was paid under the policy.

Mr. Thomas, who has a commercial driver’s license, said he finally quit his job when Human Resources refused to consider his application for a truck driver and, instead, told him to return to his pipefitting post, which requires the kind of heavy lifting his doctor had barred him from doing.

“It has all been very stressful,” Mr. Thomas said. “I had hoped to stay with the city, but it has turned out to be a bad place for me. All I wanted was to do my job. Instead, I was treated miserably. And no one seemed to care.”

Free Press wins 15 awards in annual VPA contest Sept. 8, 2021, of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Monument s tion, won first place in the g Avenue. n i pen advertising design category “Just three images, but they tell the Hap rea’s a for education, churches and e story,” the judges wrote. “The raised fists th s hit s oyebell . Moore organizations. Her ad was for Joye B et spot with J to Pies with the statue being lifted in the backswe Sweet Pota the St. Peter Baptist Church ground is visually compelling, emotional homecoming. and storytelling. The other two images Free Press photographer Sanround a short but powerful story.” dra Sellars received a first place Second place honors went to: award in the pictorial photo cat• Ms. Coleman for small space egory for “Wildcat Spirit,” a photo ads, and of a 4-year-old girl exuberantly • Ms. Boone for two categories— jumping along the path of Wildbreaking news photography and cat paws on the sidewalk outside picture story or essay. counts Armstrong High School in the East Third place honors went to: teen ac s e h c laun End. “Such joy and happiness. Thank Fidelity • Jeremy M. Lazarus, Free Press you,” the judges wrote. vice president for news enhancement, Free Press photographer Regina for two categories—public safety writing H. Boone received a first place award and feature profile writing; in the personality or portrait category • Free Press Managing Editor Bonnie for a photograph of sixth-generation V. Winston for editorial writing; baker Joye B. Moore showing off one • Free Press writer George Copeland Jr., of her Joyebells Sweet Potato Pies at Ms. Coleman, Ms. Sellars and Ms. Boone groove e th Back in r series io her production facility in South Side. n for combination picture and story; u J Disney give kid’s-eye “The color, the joy, the pride …. spot aims to w of race • Ms. Boone and Ms. Sellars for picture vie on!” the judges wrote. story or essay; And Ms. Boone and Ms. Sellars were • Ms. Coleman for advertising design recognized jointly with a first place award in the picture story in the entertainment category; and or essay category for three photos taken during the removal • Ms. Sellars for breaking news photography.

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A Mother’s Day gift Each year at this time, all good children — no matter their age — pause and figure out the perfect gift to give mom.

It can be anything from a bouquet of flowers and a lavish brunch to something as simple as a drawing or a heart-felt note handwritten on a card or piece of paper.

But this Mother’s Day, let us as a community give Richmond mothers the greatest gift possible — and that is to stop the gun violence.

Each day, news arrives from the Richmond Police Department that another person has been shot and killed, or has been transported to a local hospital with life-threatening or nonlife-threatening injuries after being wounded by gunfire.

Last year in Richmond alone, there were 101 slayings, the highest number since 2004. Most involved guns. Richmond Police classified 90 of those killings as homicides.

So far this year, there have been 18 homicides in the city, 16 by firearms. Another 64 people have been shot.

But these police statistics don’t tell the full story of mothers left grieving and heartbroken over the loss of a son or daughter. At any age, a parent should not have to bury their child — or grandchild — or pray that the skills and caring of the doctors and nurses at VCU Medical Center can help their child pull through.

The trauma of each violent episode in this city extends well beyond the victim, impacting mothers and families for a lifetime. No mother should have to hear that her son or daughter is gone.

We applaud the efforts of so many individuals and organizations who are working to change this dangerous and destructive path some of our residents are traveling. Mayor Levar M. Stoney, the City Council and School Board, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU Health and numerous people and organizations, including RISC, Richmonders Involved to Strengthen Our Communities, are stepping up to help identify and address the causes of the violence and why guns and killing are viewed as a response.

We are grateful that new federal and city funds are being applied to the problem, but we know that dollars alone are not the answer. Sense — street sense — also is needed. That’s why we back the use of “violence interrupters,” or people with street cred who are known and are a part of a community, to step in and help break the cycle of violence.

We have major concerns, however, that putting these violence interrupters under the aegis of the Police Department may hamper their effectiveness from the start. While training by the police and other agencies will be crucial to their success, we believe they should be seen by the community as independent and not an arm of law enforcement.

We urge Mayor Stoney and members of City Council to look at the many studies that document the effectiveness of similar programs in Baltimore, Oakland, Calif., and New Haven, Conn., to name a few. There is no need for Richmond to reinvent the wheel. Other cities are farther along in their broad community focus on gun violence prevention, and we, as a city, can learn from their experiences, which have been both positive and negative. Three violence interrupters with Baltimore’s Safe Streets program were shot to death within 13 months, the last being earlier this year. So this is a program Richmond needs to enter into without blinders and with as much knowledge as possible.

Every December, Linda S. Jordan and the Coalition Against Violence, which she founded, hold a somber memorial to homicide victims and their family members. While it comforts families, it also brings tears.

Ms. Jordan buried her teenage son in 1990. He was only 19 when he was murdered.

The loss is hard for mothers to bear. We hear their anguish at the community vigils and balloon releases led almost weekly

by Charles D. Willis and United Communities Against Crime.

But mothers need more than vigils and candles and stuffed animals. They want an end to the violence.

We hope Richmonders will dedicate this Mother’s Day to all the mothers who have lost sons and daughters to gun violence and join together to end it.

A woman’s right Since the beginning of our species, it has been the responsibility of the female to care for the unborn, the newborn and the young. After millions of years, women have gotten us this far.

Now is not the time for men — or a U.S. Supreme Court or state legislatures stacked largely with white men — to wrest control from women and direct the propagation of the species.

As Vice President Kamala Harris stated on Tuesday night, “How dare they!”

They cannot tell women what to do with their bodies.

If you haven’t joined the fight before, now is the time.

Abortions will continue no matter what ultimate ruling is handed down from the U.S. Supreme Court. We need to protect the health of women and their right to privacy, regardless of the circumstance.

We already know the patchwork of laws that have sprung up in various states banning abortion have disparately impacted low-income women, including those in the Black and Brown communities, who don’t have the means of wealthy women to travel elsewhere to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy.

We urge Congress to codify abortion rights into federal law by passing the Women’s Health Protection Act. The Democratic-controlled House already has passed it, but it has been blocked in the U.S. Senate.

In Virginia, Republicans will continue their legislative assault on women’s rights and try to ban abortions. So we must work to elect people to Congress and the Virginia General Assembly who believe in the rights of women and their ability to make responsible choices.

We have come too far for the clock to be turned back.

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New ‘Dream Team’ of federal judges Something amazing just happened in the U.S. Capitol.

On one day, April 27, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for five extraordinary women of color who have been nominated to federal judgeships by President Biden.

This judicial “Dream Te a m ” w i l l make our courts more representative of the American people. As judges, they will make our system more just. And they are building on an already exceptional record by the Biden White House and the Senate’s Democratic leadership to nominate and confirm what is by far the most diverse set of federal judges ever.

What a difference an election makes. Two-thirds of former President Trump’s judges were white men. In contrast, two-thirds of Biden’s judicial nominees, and more than threequarters of his nominees to the important circuit courts of appeal — the level just below the U.S. Supreme Court — have been people of color. And that’s in addition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who soon will be sworn in as the first Black

woman ever to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

The far right did everything they could to try to smear Judge Jackson and derail her confirmation. Her qualifications and character were unquestionable, so they resorted to utterly shameful distortions about her record.

They failed to block Judge

Ben Jealous Jackson’s confirmation, but that hasn’t stopped them from running the same unprincipled playbook against civil rights lawyer Nancy Abudu, who has been nominated to serve on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The same groups that attacked Judge Jackson tried to smear Ms. Abudu. But I am convinced they will fail for the same reasons.

Here, very briefly, are the latest members of the judicial Dream Team made possible by voters who elected President Biden and took control of the Senate away from obstructionistin-chief U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky: Nancy Abudu is a civil rights advocate who spent years defending voting rights, freedom of speech, religious liberty, equality under law and other core constitutional principles.

She helped defend a 6-year-old Black student turned away from school on the first day of first grade because of his hairstyle.

She will be the first Black woman to serve on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Michelle Childs is a federal district judge who was nominated by President Obama in 2010. President Biden has nominated her to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He strongly considered her for the U.S. Supreme Court this year. In her years on the bench, Judge Childs has earned bipartisan respect for fairness while protecting voting rights and equal treatment in the courtroom.

Natasha Merle has been nominated as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. In her public-interest legal career, she has served as a public defender in death penalty cases and as a civil rights attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she is deputy director of litigation, working to make real the promises of justice and equality.

Nusrat Jahan Choudhury also has been nominated as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. Her legal work at the American Civil Liberties Union has addressed racial disparities in law enforcement and unfair treatment of low-income people in the legal

What happens after graduation?

Graduations are an exciting time for most families who will throng to auditoriums, gymnasiums, churches and outdoor settings bearing flowers, balloons and other goodies. They’ll likely go to lunch or dinner and share smiles and memories, congratulating the graduate on her achievement.

Then what?

About 4 million people will receive degrees, from associate to doctorate. Too many of them, though, will walk away from the graduation stage into a debt trap. Those who have student loans must start paying them six months after graduation or if their enrollment status falls below half-time.

Though student loan repayment was suspended—but not forgiven—during COVID-19, payments must resume by Sept.

1. Borrowers must repay whether or not they are employed, although loan servicers sometimes will adjust loan terms with modified repayment plans.

Twenty-seven million Americans have student loan debt totaling more than $1.7 billion. One in four Black women carries such obligation, the highest proportion of any population subgroup. Black women owe more than others. And collegeeducated Black women earn less than other college-educated people. Black women with a bachelor’s degree earn just

$60,000 a year, compared to $75,000 for Black men, $67,000 for white women and $91,000 for white men.

The Education Trust, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, produced a report, “How Black Women Experience Student Debt,” attributes the heavy debt burden Black women carry to unequal pay, the wealth gap and flawed public policy. When we look at the debt through the lens of recent college graduates, it is essential to note that

Julianne Malveaux Black women’s unemployment rates may make loan repayment difficult.

If repayment is difficult, failure to pay will adversely affect a credit score, limiting the ability to rent an apartment or purchase a home. In some cases, a low credit score may even limit employment possibilities.

Twelve years after leaving college, Black women owe 13 percent more on their loans than when they graduated, while white men have paid back 44 percent of their loans. Black women end up owing more because interest piles up when they haven’t made their loan payments on time, and the unpaid interest adds to the already high debt.

And because education is so highly valued among many Black women, a disproportionate number of Black women who earn doctorates earn them from costly for-profit colleges that offer little financial aid and often have few student support

services. Some Black women graduate with six-figure debt to earn a doctorate that may result in only low-paid adjunct faculty employment when they compete against others with more traditional credentials.

President Biden promised to alleviate student debt, but he hasn’t done it yet. Postponing the repayment date only delays the inevitable. Repayments resume just two months before the mid-term elections.

Has the president considered the fact that his failure to act may impact the composition of Congress in 2022? On the other hand, loan forgiveness might encourage some younger people to get out and vote because they’ve seen a return on their 2020 vote.

The wealth gap always has been with us, and public policy sometimes makes the gap even wider than it needs to be. Why can’t students have the same low-interest loans as banks? Why can’t students have the same loan forgiveness as some businesses during COVID-19?

If we value an educated workforce, we must rethink how we both fund higher education and pay for it. By necessity, COVID-19 has provided us with different options.

Meanwhile, Black women, passionate believers in the power of higher education, pay a very high price to pursue their passion. Something to consider as we celebrate graduations.

The writer is an economist, author and dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State University, Los Angeles.

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system. She will be the first Muslim woman to serve as a lifetime federal judge.

Ana Isabel de Alba has been nominated as a federal judge in the Eastern District of California, where she will be the first Latina judge. As a lawyer, she fought against barriers to justice facing mistreated farmworkers like her mother and advocated for immigrants’ rights. Since 2018, she has been a California superior court judge in Fresno County.

We need more judges who will be a voice for justice. Having five such women appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the same day was a remarkable sign of the progress that can be made when we elect leaders who are committed to making progress and serving justice.

The writer serves as president of People for the American Way. He also teaches leadership at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Readers and officials react to the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion concerning the overturning of Roe v. Wade People everywhere have silenced, discounted, disparaged and cursed women long enough. We are the ones who engender children. We are the ones who are so connected to those children that we suffer with them.

If men were so benevolent, they would listen to what women say, and help to make our world better, rather than make it harder to care for our children. Governments and companies would encourage women to share the burden of work and to divulge their thoughts on ways to work smarter. Men in government would not be forbidding doctors to treat women or our children. They would not consign them to poverty and ill health. They would honor the right of women to decide if they want to propagate the species or not. Otherwise, why make rape a crime if forced pregnancy isn’t?

Forcing a woman to remain pregnant for any reason while not providing for the cost of her health, her child and their welfare is, at best, a hypocritical advocacy for “life.”

Dictating women’s health care — overruling medical experts — is a dangerous and foolish choice. Doing so for children even more so. Is it not bad enough that thousands died of COVID-19 for the “freedom” of not wearing masks and accepting the vaccine?

I see that politicians are just emboldened by their mistakes. They fail to learn. They fail us and our future.

DIANE M. STARKEY Rochester, N.H.

u The United States of America should not be a country where women are dying from back-alley abortions. This is a profoundly personal issue with real consequences for the lives of American women. Green-lighting states to ban abortion in all cases — including rape or incest — would only endanger the lives of those grappling with the hardest decision of their lives. These harrowing decisions should remain between a woman, her family and her doctor.

This leaked draft Supreme Court opinion is poised to erase a woman’s right to privacy and reproductive health care that has been settled law for nearly a half century. The U.S.House of Representatives has voted to codify Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Senate needs to follow suit and pass this bill.

7th DISTRICT CONGRESSWOMAN ABIGAIL SPANBERGER Henrico County u I’m outraged by the reported leaked SCOTUS decision overturning Roe. I believe abortion care is health care, and I’ll keep fighting for that in the Senate.

U.S. SEN. MARK R. WARNER Virginia u Every woman, regardless of her background or socioeconomic status, deserves the right to make her own medical decisions. That is why I was proud to vote for the Women’s Health Protection Act last fall to protect reproductive rights at the federal level. These reports make it abundantly clear why the Senate must immediately pass that bill and send it to President Biden’s desk.

3rd DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN ROBERT C. “BOBBY” SCOTT Newport News u Our country is experiencing a full partisan assault on women’s rights and freedom to control our own bodies. As Black women, we stand at the intersection of voting rights and reproductive justice, with the full understanding that the struggle for our right to vote is inextricably tied to our reproductive rights as women.

Historically, when state laws have failed to protect Black people, we have relied on the federal courts to protect our rights and access to opportunity as Americans.

However, as we are already experiencing a U.S. Supreme Court that is unwilling to protect our voting rights, it appears this court is also averse to protecting our constitutionally protected reproductive

rights and freedoms. And when the courts will no longer deliver justice, we must point our activism and energy to the lawmakers and to the Congress that can codify that justice into the law … … We cannot wait any longer and allow states to limit our autonomy and place further controls over our reproductive health.

Therefore, the NCBCP and Black Women’s Roundtable is committed to ensuring that we mobilize and leverage our voting power in the 2022 midterm election and beyond, to hold elected officials accountable to our interests, including protecting our civil rights, voting rights and reproductive rights.

MELANIE L. CAMPBELL President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Convener, Black Women’s Roundtable u This leaked opinion is horrifying and unprecedented. It confirms our worst fears: That the court is prepared to end the constitutional right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade. We’re angry and ready to take action. We have been preparing for this, and we’re ready for this fight.

Abortion is still legal and will remain legal in Virginia when this decision becomes final. We are prepared to continue to fight across the country. This will not stop us. It is essential that pregnant women have access to medically accurate information and compassionate health care throughout their pregnancy, without political interference.

Politicians and Supreme Court justices are throwing up barriers to abortion access not because it is necessary, but because they want to control women’s bodies. They do not care about the harm they will inflict on families in Virginia, especially rural, low-income, young, queer, trans and people of color who already have a hard time accessing the health care they need.

Our fight is not over. We will continue to do the work to ensure that women in our community and across America have affordable access to an abortion when they need it.

VIRGINIA REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY ALLIANCE • Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia • Progress Virginia • Whole Woman’s Health Alliance • Pro-Choice Virginia • Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice Virginia • ACLU of Virginia • Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project • Blue Ridge Abortion Fund • Virginia Chapter, NOW (National Organization for Women) • Hampton Roads Reproductive Justice League • National Council of Jewish Women, Virginia u Make no mistake: The draft opinion by SCOTUS would not end abortions. It will only serve to ban safe abortions and would send women’s reproductive rights back to a terrifying time in history and we must fight back.

Elections have consequences and we must work to increase our margin in the U.S. Senate and hold our majority in the House this fall.

But first, we must immediately call upon Congress and demand they codify Roe into law immediately. Now is not the time to be silent.

MAYOR LEVAR M. STONEY City of Richmond u Let’s be clear – should this draft opinion become final, people will die. Those people will be predominantly women of color and low-income women, women who cannot afford to skirt the law by traveling to another state. Ending the right to legal abortion doesn’t stop abortions from happening. It just makes them less safe by returning them to the back alleys of our past.

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Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, May 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances:

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so by following the instructions referenced in the May 9, 2022 Richmond City Council Formal meeting agenda. Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at https:// www.rva.gov/office-cityclerk, and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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u State legislatures whose representatives are elected by the people should be making these types of decisions, not unelected judges.

As a pro-life state senator elected by the people of Chesterfield, Colonial Heights and Amelia, who sponsored the Pain Capable bill that recognizes babies unborn experience pain at 20 weeks, I will continue to sponsor and support legislation that is consistent with the Constitution that prohibits the deprivation of life without due process … … Currently, beagles have more rights to humane treatment than the unborn. Criminals have more due process than the unborn.

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The book was made into a popular movie in 2010 featuring John Malkovich, Diane Lane and Scott Glenn. Ms. Lane played Ms. Tweedy’s mother, Penny Chenery, who bred and owned Secretariat. The famous thoroughbred in 1973 won horseracing’s coveted Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. Some of the records established by Secretariat still stand 49 years later.

“When I was doing research, I found out about the plantation and slavery,” Ms. Tweedy said in a recent Free Press interview. “It was a plantation long before it was a horse farm.”

Although tied to the land by ancestry, Ms. Tweedy grew up in Denver and earned a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

“I was not part of that world,” she said. “I was a Yankee and a westerner. I’m also a member of the Richmond chapter of Coming to the Table.”

That national organization attempts to heal the wounds of racism rooted in America’s history of slavery. She said she has been every bit as compelled as Mr. Mines to find out about those enslaved on the plantation of her ancestors.

“I wanted to find out how many were enslaved on the plantation. It turns out there were 82 people enslaved on The Meadow. They had a policy of not separating families, so no one was sold downriver,” she said.

She was in the middle of her research when she received the surprising message on ancestry. com from Mr. Mines that said, “Hey, I want to know more.”

“So, I sent him my book,” Ms. Tweedy said.

“Then we spoke on the phone.”

Both enjoy plowing into research and now make sure they speak at least once a week as they strategize on how to find more details about that part of The Meadow’s history and get special designation for the place where Mr. Mines believes many of his ancestors are buried.

There is an unmarked burial ground on the land, where Ms. Tweedy said she learned the enslaved were interred. A slave cabin also is on the property.

“The Meadow is already a historic site, thanks to Secretariat,” Ms. Tweedy explained.

“We’re hoping to get the same designation for the horse groomsmen, the enslaved and the slave cemetery” on the site.

Last fall, Mr. Mines, who lives with his wife in Loudoun County, and Ms. Tweedy decided it was time to move from phone calls and Zoom to a face-to-face meeting.

Several people, Mr. Mines said, questioned his decision to unearth a painful episode and to team up with an offspring of his family’s owners. But Mr. Mines was determined and credits his FBI training with keeping him laser focused.

“For me, it was just the facts,” he explained.

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‘Intertwined history’ Above, Kate Tweedy leads Mike Mines, right, and his brother, William Mines Jr., through the area where people who were enslaved at The Meadows are believed to be buried, including members of the Mines family who were horse groomers and worked on the plantation. Left, the Mines family pauses to take a selfie with Kate Tweedy during their first meeting last September. They are, from left, Adrian Mines, Kate Tweedy, Lauren Mines, Beatrice Mines and Mike Mines.

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where so many of my ancestors toiled from sunup until sundown would be anger and frustration,” he said. “My mission was to identify the place and go back as far as I could and connect those people with my kids. Meeting Kate was a plus.

I wasn’t trying to assign blame.”

Mr. Mines, his wife, Beatrice, and their two adult children, Adrian, 32, and daughter, Lauren, 27, drove the hour and a half from his home in Northern Virginia to Ashland to have dinner with Ms. Tweedy and visit The Meadow, located roughly 20 minutes north of Ashland.

“My wife and son were onboard, but my daughter had misgivings,” he said.

Misgivings might be a somewhat mild description of Lauren Mines’ reaction.

“Sitting down and having dinner with a descendant of the family who owned my family didn’t sit right with me,” she said. “It felt wrong to befriend someone who was related to those who treated my ancestors so wrongly. Her family made a lot of money off the work my

family put in, and I felt I was owed something from her. But, ultimately, I am glad I went and visited The Meadow. It was surreal.”

Adrian Mines was moved by the visit every bit as much as his sister.

“I was nervous at first, but once I got there and met Kate, it all felt right,” he said. “Kate was phenomenal. She gave us papers that showed lineage and more. She was the vessel that allowed us to put the pieces together. And she wasn’t afraid to talk about the true history of the place and have tough conversations with us.”

In addition to meeting Ms. Tweedy, the highlight was seeing the slave cabin and the burial ground, Mr. Mines said. Much of the area was heavily wooded and both were difficult to find.

“We had to go through six-foot shrubs to get to it,” he said.

But Ms. Tweedy knew the terrain, Mr. Mines said, and guided them through.

Walking around the grounds that bear the unmarked graves of so many of the enslaved

at The Meadow, including, possibly, his ancestors, provoked a response in him that he said he never expected.

“When we were standing there, I was almost moved to tears thinking about what they went through,” Mr. Mines said. “It’s one thing reading about your history and another seeing it.”

Visiting the site together, he said, affected both him and Ms. Tweedy.

“We have an acknowledgment of a shared history. A friendship has developed.”

Mr. Mines and Ms. Tweedy now are committed to ensuring that at least a marker or plaque is erected on the road that bisects The Meadow to show that slaves were buried on the land.

The two also are brainstorming about how to preserve the slave cabin.

“If we get that (historic) designation, then the cabin can never be torn down,” Mr. Mines said, pointing out that his mission is far from accomplished.

“We can’t restore the cabin; that takes money.

But we can try to get it designated as a historical site and then it cannot be torn down.”

The Meadow dates back to 1805 when it was purchased by Ms. Tweedy’s ancestors. Guy Mines, Mr. Mines’ great-great-grandfather who was born in the early 1800s, was enslaved there along with other relatives.

The plantation changed hands numerous times through the years. Ms. Tweedy’s grandfather, Christopher Chenery, purchased it in 1936 to make it a horse farm. Ms. Tweedy’s mother, Penny Chenery, took over in 1968, consolidated many aspects of the enterprise and eventually gave the world Riva Ridge, the phenomenal horse that won the Kentucky Derby 50 years ago this month in 1972, followed by the Belmont Stakes, and Secretariat, who wowed the world the following year.

After Christopher Chenery’s death in 1973, the land was divided and sold to settle the estate’s debts, Ms. Tweedy said.

“There were other siblings and heirs,” Ms. Tweedy said. “My mother kept the horses but sold the land.”

The experience, Mr. Mines said, has given him a deeper understanding of his roots that his parents never discussed because of the pain of slavery. And it has helped him forge a relationship with someone based on a shared history.

The question, he said, is “how do we move forward with an intertwined history, particularly now when history is being diminished?”

Working together to preserve that history is the answer, he said.

Seeing the reaction of his children has made the effort to uncover the past worth it, Mr. Mines said.

“To see where we came from and the work that our ancestors did … my father put it in perspective,” Adrian Mines said. “And now it’s our job to find out more and then share the story.

It’s our turn to share the family legacy to ensure (our ancestors) are never forgotten.”

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If Jahan Dotson does in the NFL what he did in college, the Washington Commanders’ first season could have fans dancing in the aisles at FedEx Field.

The smallish (by NFL standards) Dotson, a wide receiver from Penn State University, becomes the newly named Commanders’ first ever draft pick, coming in the first round and 16th overall.

The draft was held in Las Vegas from April 28 through 30.

Unlike many other first round picks, Dotson did not attend the draft. Instead, he was home watching NBA game on television when he got a call from Washington Coach Ron Rivera.

After wearing No. 5 at Penn State, Dotson will don Washington jersey No. 1, underscoring the fact he is the Commanders’ first draft selection.

He arrives in D.C. with sparkling credentials.

As a Penn State senior, Dotson caught 91 passes for 1,182 yards and 12 touchdowns, earning AllBig 10 honors.

“I approach the ball as if it’s a million dollars,” he said in his post-draft interview. “It’s a million dollars in the air. If you want it, you go get it.”

The Commanders are hopeful Dotson will join wide receiver Terry McLaurin to give newly

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Juan Soto

Players’ fortunes rise with the NFL draft; others seeking free agent contract acquired quarterback Carson Wentz a pair of exciting deep threats.

At the NFL Combine, Dotson was measured at 5-foot-10 ⅝ and 178 pounds. That stirs memories of Washington’s beloved “Smurfs” from the 1980s.

In 1982, the Washington “Smurfs” — undersized Alvin Garrett, Virgil Seay and Charlie Brown — created havoc for defenders with their speed and elusiveness and delighted fans with their flair.

Dotson’s other Combine measurements were 4.43 seconds for the 40-yard dash, a 36-inch vertical leap, 10-1 in the standing long jump and 15 bench press reps at 225 pounds.

Dotson is the first wide receiver to be drafted by Washington in the first round since Rod Gardner out of Clemson University in 2001.

Other wideouts taken by Washington in round one have been Michael Westbrook (1995), Desmond Howard (1992), Art Monk (1980) and Charley Taylor (1964).

WhatchutalkinboutWillis? Many fans were shocked that Liberty University quarterback Malik Willis fell all the way to the third round in last week’s draft. He was finally taken with the 86th pick by the Tennessee Titans.

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Josh Bell

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Most mock drafts had Willis going in the first round, even as high as second overall by Detroit. Willis was in attendance for the opening round, but watched the remainder from a Vegas bowling alley. In Tennessee, Willis will battle Ryan Tannehill for the position.

Willis can take heart in the fact that Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round (1999), Russell Wilson in the third (2012), Johnny Unitas in the ninth (1955) and Bart Starr in the 17th (1956).

You never know.

Calling the HBCUs: Virginia State University safety Will Adams did not hear his name called, despite putting on a head-turning show at the HBCU Combine in Mobile, Ala. Adams is still seeking to sign a free agent contract. In the meantime, he has accepted an invitation to attend the Miami Dolphins’ rookie mini-camp.

He also had an invitation to attend the Atlanta Falcons’ rookie mini-camp. The Dolphins’ rookie mini-camp will be May 14 through 16 in South Florida.

Already, Norfolk State University defensive tackle De’Shaan Dixon has signed a free agent contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Dixon was All-MEAC this past season for the Spartans

Keibert Ruiz

Maikel Franco

De’Shaan Dixon

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while racking up 54 tackles, including 12.5 for losses.

Two HBCU players that were drafted were Fayetteville State University cornerback Joshua Williams and South Carolina State University cornerback Decobie Durant.

Williams went to the Kansas City Chiefs and Durant to the Los Angeles Rams, both in the fourth round. No HBCU players were selected last year.

Georgia on NFL’s mind: Incredibly, five defensive players with the University of Georgia Bulldogs were taken in the first round, led by the No. 1 overall selection, lineman Travon Walker, who was picked by Jacksonville. Four more Georgia players were called in the second and third rounds.

Close to home: University of Virginia tight end Jelani Woods was taken in the third round by the Indianapolis Colts. Woods caught 44 passes for 598 yards and eight touchdowns this past season for the Wahoos.

Woods became a Combine celebrity, measuring 6-7 ⅛, weighing 253 pounds, running the 40-yard dash in 4.61 and pushing 24 bench press reps at 225 pounds. In Indianapolis, Woods could rival former Virginia Commonwealth University basketball player Mo Alie-Cox for playing time.

Alcides Escobar

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Washington Nationals may be out front in diversity in MLB

The Washington Nationals may be last in the National League East standings, but they’re likely first in diversity.

On April 26, the Nats started an all non-white lineup, including the pitcher, that was comprised of ball players of color.

This is extraordinarily rare. Less than 10 percent of MLB players are African-American and about 20 percent are Latino.

Here was Nats manager Dave Martinez’s lineup against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park: • César Hernández, second base, from Venezuela • Juan Soto, right field, Dominican Republic • Nelson Cruz, designated hitter, Dominican Republic • Josh Bell, first base, Irving, Texas • Yadiel Hernandez, left field, Cuba • Keibert Ruiz, catcher, Venezuela • Maikel Franco, third base, Dominican Republic • Alcides Escobar, shortstop, Venezuela • Victor Robles, center field, Dominican Republic • Josiah Gray, pitcher, New Rochelle, N.Y. (The pitcher does not hit.)

George Beale

Spartans snag George Beale, Region 4A Player of the Year

Norfolk State University will lose some key players from last season’s championship basketball team, but help is on the way.

The Spartans’ newest commit is 6-foot-4 George Beale from King’s Fork High in Suffolk.

Beale averaged 23 points, eight rebounds and four assists while earning Region 4A Player of the Year honors and selection to the All-State first-team. Beale had a high game.

King’s Fork went 24-1, with the only loss to Varina High School of Henrico County in the state semifinals at the Siegel Center.

NSU is coming off a 24-7 season in which it won a second straight MEAC title. Star seniors included Jalen Hawkins, Kris Bankston and MEAC Player of the Year Joe Bryant Jr.

NSU’s Kai Cole named to VSID Division I All-State indoor track team Kai Cole can pick ‘em up and lay ‘em down and his exceptional speed has been recognized all over Virginia.

The Norfolk State University sprinter is the lone HBCU athlete on this year’s Virginia Sports Information Directors Division I All-State indoor track team.

A 5-foot-5 junior from Alexandria, Cole won the MEAC 60- and 200-meter sprints with times of 6.66 seconds and 20.77 seconds Kai Cole this past winter.

Before coming to NSU, Cole was a 6A State champion in the 200 meters at T.C. Williams High School and was an NCAA Division III champ at 60-meters at Wesley College in Delaware.

The Nationals lost that game 5-3. The lineup varies game to game.

On April 27, Lucius Fox started at shortstop for the Nats.

Fox is among a handful of players to reach the big leagues from The Bahamas. Also on April 27, Lane Thomas, who is white, started in center field.

The battery of Gray and Ruiz came in a trade with Los Angeles last season that saw Max Scherzer and Trea Turner going

to the Dodgers.

Records on such things are hard to find, but the first MLB team believed to start an all non-white lineup of African-Americans and Latinos was the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sept. 1, 1971.

Pittsburgh’s lineup that day at Three Rivers Stadium read Rennie Stennett, Gene Clines, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguillén, Dave Cash, Al Oliver, Jackie Hernández and Dock Ellis Jr. pitching.

Ashton Pratt signs to join the VUU Panthers next season; JV basketball team also in the works Virginia Union University has received a commitment from one of the best players from arguably the state’s best high school basketball team.

Ashton Pratt, a dynamic 6-foot-1 guard who helped Hayfield High School of Alexandria to a 32-0 record and the State Class 6 title, is headed to VUU, Panthers Coach Jay Butler confirmed.

Pratt averaged 12 points per game while hitting nearly 40 percent of his 3-point tries this past winter. He also excels defensively and as a primary ball handler.

Coming off a 23-7 season, VUU must replace All-CIAA forward Jordan Peebles, standout guard Tyriek Railey and back up big man Kelvin Calhoun.

There is some talk of the 6-foot-8, 300-pound Calhoun pursuing a spot on

the VUU football squad.

Peebles, who starred in the classroom as well as on the court, is about to receive a master’s degree in education during commencement ceremonies this weekend.

Ashton Pratt Recruiting remains active at VUU for incoming freshmen and transfers.

Among those high school seniors being recruited by VUU is 6-foot-6 Kendrick Warren Jr. from Monacan High School in Chesterfield County.

After the Panthers sat out this past season at VUU, Coach Butler hopes to add 6-foot-9 Davion Coleman and 6-foot-6 Brian Ayafor to his 2022-23 roster. Coleman is from Alaska; Ayafor from the Washington, D.C., area.

Coach Butler has announced that VUU will be starting a “JV program” next season, mostly for incoming freshmen. The idea is to play about a 20-game schedule against prep schools, junior colleges and other CIAA affiliates.

Coach Butler said that a JV player would be eligible to step up to the varsity if all goes well. VUU’s assistant coaches will coach the team on nights when the varsity team is not competing.

Tryouts for the team will be at noon Saturday, May 14, at Barco-Stevens Hall.

Chris Cheeks, former VCU standout and Boston College coach, dies at 54 Chris Cheeks, among the most prolific scorers in Virginia Commonwealth University basketball history, died Wednesday, April 20, 2022. He was 54 and living in the Boston area where he was an assistant basketball coach at Boston College.

The cause of death was listed as an apparent heart attack.

A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Cheeks played at VCU from 1987 to 1989 under Coach Mike Pollio. The 6-foot-4 guard scored 1,273 points in two seasons and still holds the VCU Rams’ record for most points in a Division I game — 42 points against Old Dominion University in 1989.

Mr. Cheeks’ career scoring average of 20.2 points is second only among VCU players to Charles “Jabo” Wilkins’ 23.8 points average from 1968 to 1971. Len Creech averaged 21.9 points in three seasons with the RPI Rams and one with the VCU Rams.

As a senior, Mr. Cheeks averaged 24 points and led the Sun Belt Conference in scoring.

Before arriving at VCU, Mr. Cheeks scored more than 1,000 points in two seasons at Lon Morris Junior College in Jacksonville, Texas. He’s among the few college players to accumulate more than 1,000 points at two different schools.

He was recruited to VCU by Coach Pollio and Assistant Coach Eddie Webb.

Mr. Cheeks was so smooth and so efficient, he earned the nickname “Money” from his teammates.

Following graduation, Mr. Cheeks played briefly for a pro team in Portugal and on a traveling exhibition squad called Court Authority that defeated numerous Division I schools.

His career soon turned to coaching. Mr. Cheeks served as an assistant coach at VCU under Coach Sonny Smith, then at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, University of Delaware, Georgia State University, Western Kentucky University and University of West Virginia and most recently Boston College of the ACC. Mr. Cheeks and his wife, Mona, have three children,

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Chris Jr., Brandon and Lauren. Brandon Cheeks became a standout basketball player at Meadowbrook High School in Chesterfield County.

Among Mr. Cheeks’ VCU teammates were Vince Wilson, Lionel Bacon, Derek Thompkins and Phil Stinnie.

A highlight came in 1987 when Mr. Cheeks helped the Rams upset the University of Virginia 75-66 in the TimesDispatch Tournament at the Richmond Coliseum.

Final tributes were paid to Mr. Cheeks during a memorial service held last Saturday at Faith and Family Church in Chesterfield County and at a funeral held Tuesday, May 3, in Washington.

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Happenings Personality: LeTeisha Gordon

Spotlight on founder and program director of A Better Day Than Yesterday Initiative Program “Ms. Gordon, how would you rebuild a relationship with someone that was released from prison?”

This question, directed at LeTeisha Gordon in 2016 during a Father’s Day panel at Deep Meadow Correctional Center, caught her off guard.

At the time, she was not speaking to her own father, who had been incarcerated since she was 14. He was released after she became an adult.

Because of the state of their relationship, she had no answer when she was asked the question.

But that moment inspired her to take greater action against the disconnect created by incarceration, divorce or military deployment for at-risk families. Soon after that panel, the A Better Day Than Yesterday Initiative Program was launched, with Ms. Gordon leading the effort as founder and program director.

“My No. 1 goal is to help families rebuild their relationship after the separation has occurred by helping them to work as a team and communicate effectively,” Ms. Gordon says. “We are starting at the root.”

Employing a variety of programs aimed at youths and families, A Better Day seeks to provide needed support to those dealing with long-term separation from loved ones.

Available services range from child advocacy and mentorship, to bike-building workshops, reading classes and events offering free haircuts, COVID-19 testing and vaccines and other resources for those returning from incarceration.

The organization also has a re-entry program that works to help the formerly incarcerated re-adapt to the world outside

prison and reconnect with their families through workshops and other resources. The program requires participants to have been released two years or less.

Ms. Gordon attests to the joy of seeing bonds renewed.

She talked about a recent kayaking event that brought together a man who had been incarcerated for 15 years with his grown son and nephew.

“Just listening to them enjoy the peace out on the water and watching them laugh was a great joy to me,” Ms. Gordon says.

The program has several events planned for this month and into June that are aimed at reconnecting families.

For, Ms. Gordon, A Better Day has provided a space to find answers to questions and ideas that have been germinating for a long time, and put a name to an organization she feels the community needs.

“It gives me hope that I will have A Better Day Than Yesterday,” says Ms. Gordon, explaining the name.

Meet a connector for disconnected families and this week’s Personality, LaTeisha Gordon: No. 1 volunteer position: Founder and program director of A Better Day Than Yesterday Initiative Program.

Occupation: Program developer.

Date of birth: Oct. 16.

Where I live now: South of the James.

Education: Some college.

Family: Two young men ages 27 and 20 and a granddaughter, 5.

Mission of A Better Day Than

How I came up with the name: I had the name A Better Day Than Yesterday more than 10 years ago and did not know what the purpose was for, so I used it for a travel agency. Fast forward, it was for this moment right here. It gives me hope that I will have A Better Day Than Yesterday and others who are going through what I have been through will get to a place of holistic healing.

Yesterday: A charitable organization that aims to educate, empower and equip at-risk families with the skills to overcome adversities caused by incarceration, divorce or military deployment.

When, where and why I founded A Better Day: After being invited to speak on a panel at the State Farm, now Deep Meadow Correctional Center, for Father’s Day, the moderator asked, “Ms. Gordon, how would you rebuild a relationship with someone that was released from prison?” I couldn’t answer it. Prior to that event, I asked God, “What is my purpose? I know I am here to be an entrepreneur and to help people, but how?” At that Father’s Day event, I couldn’t answer because my Dad and I were not speaking due to the disconnection from him being away from me during the time I needed him the most when he was incarcerated. When he was incarcerated in 1989, I was 14 years old.

On average, how many Virginia children are impacted by incarcerated parents during their youth: About 6 percent of Virginia children have to grow up with a parent behind bars at some point. According to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, that can hurt them for life. The report, called “A Shared Sentence,” states 103,000 Virginia children will have had a parent behind bars during their youth Describe support system/ programs offered to participants by A Better Day: Family programs: Family Bonding pilot program, approved through VCU Institutional Review Board, is a 12-week intervention program. Our combined programs are Build-A-Dad Workshop, Build-A-Mom Workshop and Child Advocacy Mentoring Program. We also have a support group for mothers impacted by gun violence and Operations Freedom PackageRe-entry. Youth programs: Straight Talk 4Teen Girls; after-school program that focuses on youth obesity/gun violence prevention/interven-

tion; a reading program; A Better Day 2 Climb and BuildA-Bike Workshop.

Why various forms of support are important: To help the family rebuild or to build a solid, healthy relationship.

Who is eligible to participate: Children ages 5 to 17 and adults ages 18 to 65; for our Family Bonding program, ages 10 to 17 for our first pilot and nonviolent offenders. For our re-entry program to receive resources and workshops, all ex-offenders are welcome as long as they have been released two years or less.

How A Better Day addresses intergenerational pain and trauma: Trauma-informed care trainings, support groups and mindfulness activities.

Ways the pandemic continues to impact A Better Day: Limiting the number of participants we can empower in groups.

No. 1 goal or project as the founder: To help families rebuild their relationship after the separation has occurred by helping them to work as a team and communicate effectively with our Family Bonding program. We are starting at the root.

Strategy for achieving goals: Listening to God’s instructions and connecting with divine connections to partner with that which has proven success in what I want to accomplish.

A hurdle A Better Day hopes to surmount: To receive enough funding to implement the pilot and eliminate barriers for families to fully focus on rebuilding their family.

Ways to become involved with A Better Day: Volunteer,

become a sponsor or facilitate a workshop.

A perfect day for me is: Relaxing with my son and granddaughter.

One suggestion for A Better Day: Continue to meet the people where they are while inspiring them to elevate.

What I am learning about myself during the pandemic: To have patience and trust God more.

Something I love to do that most people would never imagine: I wake up surprised and dance because I woke up ... Lol! Quote that inspires me: If you know better, do better.

Friends describe me as: Determined.

At the top of my “to-do” list: To go on a vacation with my family.

Best late-night snack: Grapes.

Best thing my parents ever taught me: Be mindful of the company you keep.

Book that influenced me the most: “Business by the Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”

by Larry Burkett.

What I’m reading now: “Tribulations of a Ghetto Kid” by Larry Johnson aka The Ghost.

Next goal: Housing for individuals returning home so they can have single living quarters to themselves. To start rebuilding their families in their own place to call their own after staying with someone (a cellmate) for however long they were incarcerated, and provide them with employment and training.

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Happenings Arts in the Park

After a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic, Arts in the Park returned last weekend to The Carillon neighborhood in Byrd Park. This was the 51st event and thousands of people attended last Saturday and Sunday. Artists and craftspersons from around the country displayed and sold their works.

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Activist, therapist, author, designer and prosecutor among this year’s commencement speakers Area colleges and universities are returning to in-person commencements this year after two years of relying on virtual ceremonies because of COVID-19.

Here is a roundup of commencement ceremonies and speakers for area colleges and universities: Virginia Union University: Saturday, May 7, at 10 a.m. at Hovey Stadium, 1500 N. Lombardy St. Individual school celebrations will take place at 1 p.m. on campus.

Speaker for the 123rd commencement is social justice activist Tamika Mallory, copresident of the 2017 Women’s March that took place the day after former President Trump took office. Women gathered on the National Mall in Washington and in cities across the nation and around the world to protest the inauguration of a man who had been accused of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen women, an allegation he denied. The march also advocated for women’s rights, racial justice, health care and immigration reform and the rights of people in the LGBTQ community. Drawing more than 500,000 to Washington alone, the march has been called one of the largest, single-day

demonstrations in the nation’s history.

Ms. Mallory will also receive an honorary degree from VUU during the ceremony, along with 4th District Congressman A. Donald McEachin of Richmond; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Paul Williams of Richmond, a VUU alumnus; and the Rev. Gina Marcia Stewart, pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis and the first woman president of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention.

Rev. Stewart also is a visiting professor of practical theology at VUU’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology.

University of Richmond: Sunday, May 8, at 2 p.m. in the Robins Center Arena, 365 College Road on the campus.

Best-selling author Kelly Corrigan, a 1989 UR graduate whose podcast “Kelly Corrigan Wonders” has more than 4 million downloads, will be the commencement speaker.

She became well known in 2009 after a series of public appearances, including on “The Today Show” with her father after they both recovered from chemotherapy.

Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette W. McEachin will deliver the commencement

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University and a doctor of ministry degree, is a therapist, entrepreneur and mental health advocate. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Khaalida Forbes Enterprises, a company offering opportunities for mental, emotional, relational and spiritual transformation.

Virginia Commonwealth University: Saturday, May 14, 10 a.m. to noon at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

Charlotte Moss, an internationally recognized interior designer and author and VCU alumna, is delivering the commencement address.

Ms. Moss has 37 years of experience in the business of design and is the author of 11 books, including her most recent work, “Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of Home,” which benefits the nonprofit “No Kid Hungry.”

Reynolds Community College: Sunday, May 15, at 2 p.m. at the Virginia Commonwealth University Siegel Center, 1200 W. Broad St. Speakers include former Richmond City Council President Kathy Graziano, chair of the Reynolds Community College board; student Kanika Morris of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; and Reynolds engineering instructor and program head Sylvia Clay, who is president of the Faculty Senate.

Terry and Donna Moore, who have attended the event many of the 30 years they have lived in Richmond, browse the paintings of artist Jennifer Ardolins of Homosassa, Fla. Spotted among the throngs of people are Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney and his fiancée, Brandy Washington, who paused to talk and laugh with James Mercante, the assistant director for public affairs with the Richmond Police Department.

Surgical tech-turned-artist Melanie Taliaferro of Chesterfield County shows off her handmade necklaces, earrings and other jewelry as customers weave in and out of her tent. She said she hung up one set of tools 15 years ago and opted for those of a metalsmith and jewelrymaker.

Judith Hopkins, left, and Grace Parker, both of Richmond, look at the variety of animals painted by artist Deborah Butts of Gettysburg, Penn. The friends chatted and meandered through the tents, stopping to browse when something caught their fancy.

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Seeking to spread a message of unity and peace, a Richmond foundation plans to host a community cookout each month that will be open to all featuring free food, music, games and other fun activities.

The opening event will be 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Broad Rock Community Center, 4615 Ferguson Lane in South Side, the Help Me Help You Foundation has announced.

DJ Vonn will provide music at this event and the others planned for the first Saturday of each month in a bid to promote community togetherness and reduce violence, according to Michelle Mosby, the foundation’s executive director.

“We’re hoping other organizations will collaborate with us to help ‘rebuild the village,’” Ms. Mosby stated.

Similar community events are planned for the same hours Saturday, June 4, at Jefferson Park; Saturday, July 2, at Hotchkiss Field; and Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Randolph Community Center.

Details: Ms. Mosby or Thomas Mundy, (804)714-9730.

address at the UR Law School ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Robins Center Arena.

In November 2019, Mrs. McEachin became the first woman and the first AfricanAmerican woman ever elected Richmond commonwealth’s attorney. She served previously as deputy commonweath’s attorney, responsible for supervising prosecutors in Richmond General District Court.

Brightpoint Community College (formally John Tyler Community College): Friday, May 13, at the Virginia State University Multi-Purpose Center, 20809 2nd Ave., in Petersburg.

The community college is holding two ceremonies that day. The first one is at 1:30 p.m. to celebrate the 2020 and 2021 graduates. Speaker: Alicia Alvarez, Class of 2020, and past president of the Student Government Association.

The second ceremony celebrating 2022 graduates will be held at 4:30 p.m. Speaker: Jada Fernandez, Class of 2022, the communications coordinator for Brightpoint’s Student Government Association.

Virginia State University: Saturday, May 14, at 9 a.m. in the VSU Multi-Purpose Center.

VSU alumna and motivational speaker Dr. Khaalida Forbes will deliver the commencement address. Dr. Forbes, who earned her bachelor’s degree from VSU and a master’s in divinity from Howard

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May 5-7, 2022 B3

Faith News/Directory Rev. Wilbert D. Talley reaches 50th anniversary milestone at King William church

Rev. Marlene E. Forrest to be installed as rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church The Rev. Marlene E. Forrest will be installed as the 23rd rector of historic St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in North Side on Saturday, May 14.

The ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the church, 2900 Hanes Ave. Rev. Forrest’s installation comes nearly two years after she was named priest-in-charge of the 300-member congregation, the largest Black Episcopal congregation in Virginia. She will succeed Bishop Phoebe A. Roaf, who led the church for eight years until she was installed as bishop of West Tennessee in May 2019.

Rev. Forrest will take over the South’s oldest Black Episcopal church, which began operations in 1861, the same year the Civil War began.

Born into the faith, she earned her master’s of divinity in 2018 from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, where before graduation she organized and served as president of Seminarians of Color Union. At graduation, she was honored with an award for reading and scripture

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Ministry is the second career for the former special education teacher who retired after 30 years of working with students with emotional, mental and physical disabilities in Northern Virginia.

Before entering the seminary, she was active in Meade Memorial Episcopal Church in Alexandria, where she served as a lay preacher, Eucharistic minister, worship leader and youth minister and also sang in the choir.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Virginia State University and earned a master’s in education at George Mason University.

Rev. Forrest previously served as assistant rector for youth and family services at St. Peter’s in the Woods Church in Fairfax Station. She also served on various Diocese of Virginia committees and is the chaplain for youths and young adults for the National Union of Black Episcopalians.

“I never expected to reach this kind of milestone.”

The Rev. Wilbert David Talley, 78, made this statement after he became the newest member of the informal 50-year club for ministers.

Known as a leader in promoting the adoption of Black children and as a sociology professor and administrator at Virginia Union University, Rev. Talley has held the pulpit at Third Union Baptist Church in King William County since 1972.

That’s nearly five times the national average for pastors, an increasingly aging corps, whose stay with one congregation is now around 11 years, up from four years in 1992.

Rev. Talley’s long tenure at the church and his contributions to education and bettering the lives of foster children was recognized and celebrated at a banquet April 23 at VUU, his alma mater.

“I’m amazed that I’ve been doing this work so long. It wasn’t my intent or my goal. I’ve been so busy and committed to the congregation, the time has just passed,” said Rev. Talley, the sixth pastor of the 200-member church that was founded more than 150 years ago near the community of Central Garage.

He has no plans to step down.

“I enjoy what I’m doing. I find meaning in it,” Rev. Talley said. “I am committed to continuing to do it if the congregation is not ready for me to sit down or move on. I haven’t felt the urge to retire. I’m planning to continue as long as I am able.”

In addition to leading the church, Rev. Talley was the first president and is still board chairman of the 37-year-old Virginia One Church One Child, a program that his wife, Jane Crittenden Talley, helped begin as a city social worker.

Since 1985, Rev. Talley has campaigned through the nonprofit organization to get Black churches across the state engaged in recruiting families willing to adopt a child. At one time, more than 300 churches were involved in a program that has been credited with helping to provide stable homes for children who have been removed from their parents.

Rev. Talley eagerly joined the board and became influential in spreading the adoption gospel, traveling across the state to get churches involved. The Talleys, who had three of their own children, also adopted a fourth child.

The Talleys have a long connection to VUU. As a student, Rev. Talley was the quarterback of the VUU Panthers football team and acted in school productions, which is where he met his future wife, who also was in the drama club.

After earning his master’s of divinity degree at Howard University, Rev. Talley returned to VUU to serve as dean of students in 1969.

Along with teaching sociology courses during a 35-year career at VUU, Rev. Talley also served in a variety of other posts, including vice president of student affairs, university pastor, assistant dean of the School of Theology and even athletic director.

Rev. Talley is grateful for the opportunities he has had to make a difference.

“I have always been of the opinion that if we do our best to serve,” he said, “the best will come back to us in whatever form.”

Artist William R. ‘Junie Red’ Johnson Jr. succumbs at 70

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

“Junie Red” cut steel for a living.

But in his free time, the Richmond native let his creative juices flow in transforming metal pieces into abstract sculptures and painting a variety of subjects, most notably imagined landscapes of other worlds.

Born William Roger Johnson Jr., he never sought a public show, but his sculptures and paintings can be found in private collections, in Richmond yards and in murals on a few South Side homes.

The folk artist’s creative side is being remembered following his death from cancer Sunday, April 24, 2022, according to his family. He was 70.

Family and friends celebrated his life Tuesday, May 3, at the Scott’s Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Joseph Coleman

officiated.

Mr. Johnson took up painting in his youth and was always engaged in creating art, said his mother, Gladys M. Johnson.

“It was a God-given talent,” said Mrs. Johnson, a retired city schoolteacher Mr. Johnson and the well-known ticket-taker at the Henrico Theatre in Henrico County.

“He had a gravelly voice and an infectious laugh, and he was truly talented,” said Emmett J. Jafari, a journalist and paralegal who had been friends with Mr. Johnson since their time at Maggie L. Walker High School in the Class of 1972.

He was “known for his welded sculptures and canvass and full wall paintings that evoked reflection and views of the struggles to break through life’s harshness and obstacles,” Mr. Jafari said.

Mr. Johnson worked for decades at the now defunct Bristol Steel & Iron Works in South Side before he retired. He often proudly told his mother, “I cut some of the steel” that supported them as they drove across city bridges.

He was a member of First Union Baptist Church on Dill Road.

Mr. Johnson was predeceased by his wife, Shirley S. Johnson.

In addition to his mother, survivors include his two daughters, Sharnika Snider and Tammy Snider; two sons, William R. Snider and Kadeem Grooms; and his sister, Julie Johnson.

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Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO HUDA MOHAMMED ALI, Plaintiff v.

HAMID JAMAL HAMID, Defendant.

Case No.: CL21-7642 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony on the ground of that the parties have lived separate without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period of more than one (1) year.

It appearing by affidavit filed according to law that diligence has been used by or on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant is, without effect, and that his last known adress is 9016 Patterson Avenue, #10, Henrico, VA 23229, located in the County of Henrico, Virginia, it is therefore ORDERED, that the said defendant, Hamid Jamal Hamid, appear before this Court on or before June 20th 2022, and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit.

A Copy, Teste: HEIDI BARSHINGER, Clerk I ask for this: Richard M. Bing (VSB #18457) RICHARD M. BING, P.C. 7400 Beaufont Springs Drive, Suite 300 Richmond, Virginia 23225 Telephone (804) 272-7900 Facsimile (804) 747-1921 rbing@binglawoffice.com VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ASTRID CHEVEZGONZALEZ, Plaintiff v.

JOSE GONZALEZ-MIXCO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001197-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown appear here on or before the 15th day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ADELAIDA LANZO, Plaintiff v.

JOEL CASTRO-ROMERO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001208-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown appear here on or before the 15th day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER DAWUD NUBIAN, Plaintiff v.

DIANE SIMMONS-BROWN, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001198-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown appear here on or before the 15th day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER AMEERA DELANDRO, Plaintiff Continued on next column

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DORIAN DELANDRO, Defendant.

Case No.: CL20004189-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 3rd day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is, without effect.

It is therefore ORDERED that the said Ronald Cawaling Canete do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, 4301 East Parham Road, Richmond, Virginia 23273, on or before May 23, 2022 and do whatever necessary to protect their interest in this suit.

A Copy, Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk I ask for this: Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr. VSB #32825 P.O. Box 4595 Richmond, Virginia 23220 Phone (804) 523-3900 Fax (804) 523-3901

COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

RONALD K. CHARITY, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-121 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 401 Mitchell Street, Tax Map Number N000-0222/014, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Ronald K. Charity, Hezekiah C. Charity and Donald R. Ford, all upon information and belief deceased, and Solon B. Mitchell and Clarence H. Mitchell.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, RONALD K. CHARITY, upon information and belief deceased, DONALD R. FORD, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HEZEKIAH C. CHARITY, upon information and belief deceased, and DONALD R. FORD, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, CLARENCE H. MITCHELL, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that RONALD K. CHARITY, upon information and belief deceased, DONALD R. FORD, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, HEZEKIAH C. CHARITY, upon information and belief deceased, DONALD R. FORD, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CLARENCE H. MITCHELL, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ANGELA SIDELL, Plaintiff v.

JOSE CORTEZ, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001139-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown appear here on or before the 3rd day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER ANDREA HARRIS, Plaintiff v.

RASHON FRENCH, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000674-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, who has been served with the Complaint by posted service appear here on or before the 3rd day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SHIRLENE JEAN, Plaintiff v.

JOHNNY ACHIL, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001138-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 22nd day of June, 2022 at 9:00 AM, and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Counsel VSB# 27724 The Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 Virginia: In the Circuit Court of the COUNty of HENRICO TAMARA HOPE REESE, Plaintiff, v.

RONALD CAWALING CANETE, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL22-1371 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart without interruption and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since May 15, 2012.

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER SUSAN HAWN, Plaintiff v.

GEORGE HAWN, II, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22000944-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 31st day of May, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure, Esquire Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER IRVIN DAVIS, SR., Plaintiff v.

DEANNA BASSETT, Defendant.

Case No.: CL22001062-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 31st day of May, 2022 at 9:00 AM and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Law Office of Dorothy M. Eure, P.C. Dorothy M. Eure, Plaintiff’s Attorney VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

JERRY LEWIS, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1625 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 901 North 36th Street, Tax Map Number E000-1279/001, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jerry Lewis, Jr., Edward L. Boisseau, Jr., Charlie Jones, all upon information and belief deceased, and Evelyn Lewis.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JERRY LEWIS, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EDWARD L. BOISSEAU, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and CHARLIE JONES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that said owner, EVELYN LEWIS, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JERRY LEWIS, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EDWARD L. BOISSEAU, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, CHARLIE JONES, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EVELYN LEWIS, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street

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property Abandoned boat for registration VA 5201BC Last titled 2005 For More Information Contact (804) 928-2886 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MICHAEL BARRETT, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1024 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 205 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Tax Map Number W0001204/017, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Michael Barrett.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MICHAEL BARRETT, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MICHAEL BARRETT, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

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Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

JERRY LEWIS, JR, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1626 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 909 North 36th Street, Tax Map Number E000-1279/008, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Jerry Lewis, Jr. and Everlenia Jones, both upon information and belief deceased.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, JERRY LEWIS, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and EVERLENIA JONES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that JERRY LEWIS, JR, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, EVERLENIA JONES, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

D. DAVIS, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1628 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1422 Carlisle Avenue, Tax Map Number E000-2812/010, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Dorothy D. Davis.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, DOROTHY D. DAVIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action; that GREENWOOD TRUST, INC, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, as servicing agent for Discover Card, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that DOROTHY D. DAVIS, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, GREENWOOD TRUST, INC, an entity not appearing in the records of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, as servicing agent for Discover Card, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

KM REALTY, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-307 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1812 Rose Avenue, Tax Map Number N000-0329/025, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, KM Realty, LLC. An Affidavit having Continued on next page

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been filed that that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/ or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

RUSSELL S. LUNNING, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1623 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1905 North 22nd Street, Tax Map Number E000-1239/003, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Russell S. Lunning,.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, RUSSELL S. LUNNING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that RUSSELL S. LUNNING, upon information and belief deceased, or his heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

COLETTE L. WALLACEBEARD, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-547 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 2100 Harwood Street, Tax Map Number S007-1180/006, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Colette L. Wallace-Beard, Arnita Wallace, Carnetta Scott and Tiffany Wallace.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owners, COLETTE L. WALLACEBEARD, ARNITA WALLACE, CARNETTA SCOTT, and TIFFANY WALLACE, who have been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, have not been personally located and has/ have not filed a response to this action, that FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND, an entity not appearing in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 440 page 201 on March 28, 1974, which may be a creditor with an interest in said property, has not been located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that COLETTE L. WALLACEBEARD, ARNITA WALLACE, C A R N E T T A S C O T T, TIFFANY WALLACE, FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND, an entity not appearing in the records o f t h e Vi r g i n i a S t a t e Corporation Commission, BENEFICIARY of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Deed Book 440 page 201 on March 28, 1974, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

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City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

MILES H. JOYNER, III, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-299 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 3405 Hull Street, Tax Map Number S000-2454/010, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owners of record, Miles H. Joyner, III. An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, MILES H. JOYNER, III, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; that NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-3980 on February 13, 2008, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that MILES H. JOYNER, III, NANCY ANN ROGERS, TRUSTEE of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 08-3980 on February 13, 2008, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 17, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

SHIRLEY A. ROANE, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL22-1627 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1216 East Brookland Park Boulevard, Tax Map Number N0000987/013, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, Shirley A. Roane.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, SHIRLEY A. ROANE, upon information and belief deceased, or her heirs, devisees, assignees or successors in interest, have not been located and have not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that SHIRLEY A. ROANE, upon information and belief deceased, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JULY 14, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

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Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5048 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1315 North 31st Street, Tax Map Number E000-0720/021, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner/s of record, Charles C. Hartridge.

An Affidavit having been filed that said owner, CHARLES C. HARTRIDGE, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to his last known address, has not been personally located and has/ have not filed a response to this action; that 39 FOREVER, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 15-14305 on August 3, 2015, Nancy Ann Rogers, Registered Agent. Ms. Rogers, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to her last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action; and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that CHARLES C. HARTRIDGE, 39 FOREVER, LLC, Beneficiary of a Deed of Trust filed in the records of the Richmond Circuit Court at Instrument Number 15-14305 on August 3, 2015, Nancy Ann Rogers, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 17, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING CITY OF RICHMOND, Plaintiff, v.

ONTHEMOVE1, LLC, et al, Defendants.

Case No.: CL21-5386 ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to subject the property briefly described as 1424 North 19th Street, Tax Map Number E000-0771/016, Richmond, Virginia, to sale in order to collect delinquent real estate taxes assessed thereon in the name of the owner of record, ONTHEMOVE1, LLC. An Affidavit having been filed that ONTHEMOVE1, LLC ENTITY, the owner of record, FELICIA CRAWLEY, Registered Agent, who has been served by posting and by mailing a copy of the complaint to their last known address, has not been personally located and has not filed a response to this action, and that any heirs, devisees, assignees, successors in interest, successors in title and/or any creditors with a current or future interest in said property, have not been identified and/or served despite diligent efforts to do so and are defendants to this suit by the general description of “Parties Unknown.”

IT IS ORDERED that ONTHEMOVE1, LLC ENTITY, FELICIA CRAWLEY, Registered Agent, and Parties Unknown, come forward to appear on or before JUNE 16, 2022 and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this matter.

An Extract, Teste: Edward F. Jewett, Clerk Gregory A. Lukanuski, Esq. City of Richmond, Office of the City Attorney 900 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-646-7949

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