North Richmond
For more than a decade, one man has been the de facto elected representative of the nearly 3,000 residents of unincorporated North Richmond.
Police officers and county sheriffs are investigating a spate of four shootings Richmond and North Richmond Sunday night. The violence left three dead and three injured in just three hours.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the growth of public housing projects swept across urban America. North Richmond was no exception.
South African environmental activist Desmond D’Sa also took a “toxic tour” of Richmond’s challenges after Monday’s protest.
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 during World War II, but also other unique geographical and cultural heritages.
The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions.
City and county leaders joined with members of Richmond’s growing urban farming community to discuss ways to keep West County communities at the forefront of the movement toward locally-grown foods.
The “West County Urban Agriculture Summit” is set to run all day Saturday, June 4.
It’s a blend of hope and heartbreak, of promise and peril.