On the night before his death, Marcus Russell’s nerves were uneasy, and a red minivan was lurking curbside a few blocks from his grandmother’s house,...
In the days before he was shot and killed while driving his grandmother’s Nissan Maxima on I-580, Marcus Russell was nervous about simmering neighborhood tensions...
When the red van pulled alongside their driver’s side door, the long barrel of an assault rifle was jutting out the window – but it...
North Richmond knows the blues of economic and social decay, but a brighter day will come – the real question may be when.
The kids walked east on Silver Avenue, tossing back and forth a frayed, half-deflated football. It was the afternoon of March 30, 2011.
Civic leaders who seriously grapple with the question of how North Richmond can break its ruinous cycle of crime, poverty and decline often come to...
From the corner of Filbert Street and Chesley Avenue, the unofficial center of North Richmond, a person gets the full sensory onslaught that the community...
From 2005 to 2010, at least 28 homicides occurred in the county area of North Richmond alone, an area with a population that has averaged...
For more than a decade, one man has been the de facto elected representative of the nearly 3,000 residents of unincorporated North Richmond.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the growth of public housing projects swept across urban America. North Richmond was no exception.
The music scene that emerged in North Richmond featured a strong, bluesy, country twang that represented not only the influx of southerners to the area...
