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The Richmond City Council on Tuesday took a step toward adopting new rules to curb hate speech and other disruptions at its contentious meetings.
Richard “Pedie” Perez III, 24, died after a Richmond Police officer shot him three times days ago.
Family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil in front of Uncle Sam’s Liquor Store in Richmond in memory of Richard Perez III, 24, who was shot and killed there during a confrontation with a Richmond police officer in the early morning hours of Sept. 14. Perez, or ‘Pedie,’ as he was known in the neighborhood, became the first person killed in an officer-involved shooting in Richmond since 2007. The vigil began at 8 p.m. Sunday and lasted into the…
Earlier this year, Richmond Fire Department probationary firefighter AJ Schindler, battled his first blaze at a two-story home in Richmond.
An art center in Richmond has been bridging artists with disabilities and the community for 32 years. The walls are colorful, and the people more so.
It was decades ago, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, when Richmond mayoral candidate Nat Bates received a call from his buddy, the late then Richmond Councilman George Livingston, to spur his interest in public service. He was then working for the Alameda County Probation Department, and a career in politics was the farthest thing from his mind. But he knew Richmond, and had spent the majority of his life here. Many remembered his run excelling in both…
West Contra Costa School Board President and mayoral candidate Charles Ramsey, age 52, believes that Richmond can be a vibrant community, a bustling hub where young people choose to settle down after their youthful stints in San Francisco – as Ramsey did himself. After growing up in Richmond – while his father was worked in the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office in the sixties – Ramsey went to U.C. Hastings School of Law. He then moved back to Point Richmond…
Jonny Perez is a community organizer and boxer in Richmond, who is working to inspire young people to change themselves and their city.
Young Richmond actors staged an innovative theatrical work about acceptance and redemption in “Po’Boys Kitchen.”