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Richmond to install 16 markers on slave trail

Published Feb. 13, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

The Richmond Slave Trail will soon be more than a worn path and a series of dots and lines on a map. This fall, the city plans to install 16 markers on the trail, which chronicles the history of the trade of enslaved Africans who were transported to Virginia until 1775. The trail starts at the site of the Manchester Docks on the south side of the James River, and it ends at the Negro Burial Ground and the original site of First African Baptist Church, just north of East Broad Street near

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WBTK’s Festival Radio Poder 1380

Published July 23, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.

What: Festival Radio Poder 1380   When and where: Community fair, noon to 3 p.m. tomorrow at Ramsey Memorial United Methodist Church, 5900 Hull Street Road in Richmond   Cost: free ...

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Man accused of shooting car break-in thief indicted for second-degree murder

Published July 6, 2009 at 1:22 p.m.

A Richmond man was indicted today on a second-degree murder charge for shooting and killing someone who was breaking into his girlfriend’s car in the city’s Church Hill neighborhood. A grand jury indicted Eric G. Driver, 25, of the 500 block of North 22nd Street, in the shooting death of Jamall Holman, 24, on April 22. The grand jury issued indictments against Driver today for second-degree murder and felonious use of a firearm in the shooting of Holman, who lived in the 1700 block of Forest

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Richmonder indicted in death of car break-in suspect

Published July 6, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.

A Richmond man was indicted yesterday on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a man he suspected was breaking into his girlfriend’s car in the city’s Church Hill neighborhood. A grand jury indicted Eric G. Driver, 25, of the 500 block of North 22nd Street in the shooting death of Jamall Holman, 24, on April 22. The grand jury issued indictments against Driver yesterday on charges of second-degree murder and felonious use of a firearm in the shooting of Holman, who lived

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James River Singers to perform

Published April 30, 2009 at 4:01 a.m.
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The James River Singers will present a concert exploring musical examples of the sacred, the secular and in-between Saturday at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 4602 Cary Street Road, ...

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John Cephas tributes scheduled this weekend

Published March 27, 2009 at 7:48 p.m.

Page Wilson, on his “Out O’ the Blue Radio Revue” tomorrow night from 8 to 10 on WCVE (88.9 FM), will re-air two segments of a solo concert by John Cephas, the legendary Piedmont bluesman who died March 4. The JAMinc concert was recorded May 1, 2008, at Richmond’s In Your Ear Studios. Also, a memorial service and musical tribute to Cephas will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium in Washington. A House Party Jam

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Church Hill streets to be closed for Irish Festival

Published March 20, 2009 at 11:56 p.m.

For this weekend’s Church Hill Irish Festival, streets around St. Patrick Catholic Church will be closed through 9 p.m. tomorrow. East Broad Street between 24th and 26th streets and North 25th Street between Marshall and Franklin streets will be closed. The 24th annual festival will be held in front of St. Patrick’s Church, 213 N. 25th St., today from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m ...

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Celtic pride on display at Church Hill Irish Fest

Published March 21, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.

A sea of green is overrunning North 24th Street today as vendors sell T-shirts, Celtic trinkets and Irish coffee while throngs of people mill about listening to tunes from two stages during the Church Hill Irish Festival. If the first day of the Irish festival was any indication of what this summer’s festival season will bring, organizers have cause for optimism ...

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