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Award-winning Richmond church choir director Tina Bradford-Landry gives her take on the “How Sweet the Sound” tour stop in Oakland.
“I am not a high school dropout. I am not a drug dealer or a gang banger. I am not the negative of Richmond, California,” said Chanthanasak at the Sixth Annual Youth Stopping Violence Summit on Saturday.
A dozen students in the West Contra Costa County Unified School District presented general guidelines at the Oct. 7 Board of Education meeting for a group aimed at improving their schools. They comprise the Youth Commission, a group the board voted into existence last January.
The Richmond City Council approved a new ordinance at Tuesday’s meeting to protect renters living in foreclosed homes.
A few hundred yards off the Santa Fe Channel’s waters, beneath the moving silhouettes of the massive tankers that float to dock, lies the little stretch of railroad track that serves as a gathering point for Richmond’s men and women who scavenge for scrap.
The Richmond City Council took a cue from San Francisco and voted Tuesday to ban cigarette sales at pharmacies. The proposal is modeled after San Francisco’s landmark ordinance that made headlines and prompted lawsuits after the Board of Supervisors passed the same law last year.
It’s a sunny Labor Day afternoon at Nevin Park, and Hassan “Perkins” Muhammad is sitting at a picnic table, bouncing his young son on his lap. The rest of the family is busy tending the grill. It is, in many ways, a typical American barbecue. But at Nevin Park, leisurely family gatherings like this are quite novel. The park, which sits almost directly in the heart of Central Richmond, had for years been an ugly reminder of the decay and…
Richmond homeowners facing foreclosure have one more day to get help from a traveling network of financial counselors. Thousands of Bay Area residents have huddled into the seats at Daly City’s Cow Palace over the last four days, hoping the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) will help them negotiate a new mortgage. One of the homeowners was Robin Bill of Richmond. She lives near the city’s border with San Pablo. Bill spoke briefly at the NACA podium, one of…
The homicide data reveals some stark facts: Gun violence accounts for almost all deaths, less than a third of the crimes have been solved, over half of the homicides occurred over the summer and the victims are disproportionately under the age of 30.