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As word spread through Richmond, Oakland and other East Bay cities with large immigrant populations of the President’s executive orders easing some restrictions of federal immigration policy, families and support groups affected by the new orders reacted with a mix of relief and disappointment. “It’s not enough,” said Claudia Jimenez, a former member of the Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO) “because a lot of people have already been deported and a lot of families have already been separated.”…
Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program plan to counsel at least 50 people about Medicare benefits. Don’t miss out, swing by 5625 Sutter Ave. in Richmond for help.
The Davis Chapel community garden in North Richmond didn’t always look like this: twenty members of the community planting and digging in the angled November sunlight.
In one of her photo essays, City of Pride and Purpose, artist Mindy Pines, captures Richmond on election day.
On Monday evening, the Bayside Council PTA hosted a celebration of student art. The theme for this year’s Reflections Showcase was, “The World Would Be a Better Place If…”
Alex Knox, 26, is wearing a blue shirt, grey suit and smiling into his ice water. His mouth becomes a cartoon shape when he smiles, a bright crescent. It is a week after the election, and Knox looks relaxed – very different from when we first met on the eve of the election.
A Richmond metal plating company was shut down by a court order last week, granting a request by California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).
Let’s Grow Richmond, a brand new non-profit organization, has already managed to collect about 1500 pounds of foods through its’ new initiative, The Cool Green Bag, dispersing it to hungry families across Richmond.
“Two months ago we were celebrating a low and all of a sudden, it just reoccurred. So now we are all just baffled at what’s going on.”