History
Three hundred people gathered to celebrate the SS Red Oak Victory’s 70th birthday today, including 89-year-old Robert DiChiara, one of the ship’s original crew members. “I never thought I would see it in such great shape,” he said.
GUEST OPINION: Inegalitarianism, defined as the exclusion of large segments of the population from participation in the socioeconomic and political system despite the language of equality, liberty and freedom, has permeated the U.S. since its inception. Veterans Day provides the opportunity to reflect on the hundreds of thousands who have perished in battle, suffered wounds or are permanently disabled, which, from my perspective, can only be described as an obscenity of injustice. Lest we forget, African Americans fought in the…
The troubles at the Hacienda housing project were made public in February. The Richmond Housing Authority promised a tenant relocation in April. The initial application was sent in May. It’s now October—and mice still crawl at residents’ feet and cracks still spider up the walls. “I thought this place was coming down on my head during that Napa quake,” said Clarence Malbrough, a 16-year resident of the notorious Iron Triangle apartment complex on Roosevelt Ave. Residents and city council have…
Dancers and musicians from local middle and high schools spiced up Wednesday’s WCCUSD school board meeting. The students’ performances were in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
“Could you stay until my birthday?” the passenger kept asking her driver. The rider, an elderly woman with short gray hair and a faint voice, didn’t want Robert Rodgers to leave the driver’s seat of her daily van. But Rodgers had his future planned: he would retire from the van service when he turned 62. “Born and raised in Oakland,” Rodgers had been in the driver’s seat for a long time. Even when he enlisted to the army for six…
The restaurant on Nevin Street continues to serve tacos and enchiladas, but will soon re-open with a new name: the ‘Vege & Soul International Cuisine’.
Currently there are hundreds of young people in Richmond who need to be provided with effective youth development opportunities and purposeful engagement with healthy adults on a consistent basis.
Richmond residents donned red, white and blue and showed their support for military veterans at two separate events in the city on Monday.
Richmond City Council member Tom Butt, a strong proponent of historic preservation, recently took Richmond Confidential reporter Mark Andrew Boyer on a tour of some of the city’s most important old buildings.