A Richmond volunteer works to help Hurricane Sandy victims recover their homes
A middle-aged Laotian-American man walked up to the doorstep of a Russian business in a wealthy suburb in New York’s Rockaway Peninsula a few days...
Tawanda Kanhema
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Stories by Tawanda
Richmond city council fails to announce Bell vacancy as meeting ends in stalemate
By Jennifer Baires and Tawanda Kanhema Posted
A meeting that began with warm sentiments as the city council praised Salute restaurant owner Menbre Akililu for her Thanksgiving Day meal giveaway for the...
Rift emerges in Richmond as Bell seat falls vacant
By Tawanda Kanhema and Jennifer Baires Posted
An empty chair sat on the dais of Richmond City Hall Tuesday night during the inauguration of re-elected councilmembers Tom Butt and Nat Bates. Outpourings...
Backed by new law, homeowners in Richmond, Oakland, fight to protect homes from foreclosure
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
When Oakland resident Debi Mason set out to prevent mortgage associates from the Bank of America from foreclosing on her sister Patricia’s Maxwell Park home...
2012 Year in Review
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
From Richmond’s triumphant bid to host the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's second campus to worrying phases of gun violence earlier in the year and the...
What now, Jeff Ritterman?
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
A month after the election, the departing Councilmember Jeff Ritterman can see the end of his term on the council, if not an end to...
Richmond-built solar car ’Impulse’ gets ready for Formula Sun Grand Prix
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
A shiny bean-shaped rolling contraption, barely three feet high, struggled up a steep gradient on a recent Saturday morning as it entered the streets of...
Election recap: Voters seek familiar faces
By Stephen Hobbs, Rachel Witte, Rachel de Leon and Tawanda Kanhema Posted
When the official returns came in on Wednesday morning, Richmond voters had decided that after the most expensive campaign in city history, what they wanted...
Citizens Outspent: Inside Richmond’s $4m Election Campaign
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
Take your pick: naïve anarchists, or corporate puppets. This is the face of Richmond’s hotly contested race for three council seats in the November 2012...
Protests mar Walmart Supercenter’s re-opening in Richmond
By Jennifer Baires and Tawanda Kanhema Posted
As managers at Richmond’s Walmart Supercenter prepared to launch a grand re-opening this morning, a handful of workers who have spent the last four months...
Richmond’s sugar-sweetened beverage town hall draws tears, personal testimonies
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
Families from Richmond’s African American community testified Monday night to the fight against the health effects of poor diets at a town hall meeting to...
Richmond doctors square off on sugar-sweetened beverage Measure N
By Tawanda Kanhema and Rachel de Leon Posted
The debate surrounding Richmond’s proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages intensified this week, with a prominent Richmond doctor, Brazell Carter, speaking out against the measure in...
Full Coverage of the 2012 Election in Richmond
By Tawanda Kanhema Posted
From the presidential election to the City Council, from the school board to Measure N, we're covering it all: the money, the measures, the personalities....
