New Barbershop with Vintage Look Opens in Point Richmond
Five questions for Daniel Webster, owner of Cuts 1st Class in Richmond. The new barbershop with a vintage look and feel opened in October in the Point Richmond neighborhood....
29 Nov
24 Sep
Tenants Face Eviction Before City Votes on Measure L
Over 100 tenants of the Creekview condominium complex have 60 days to find a new home. ...
19 Aug
Music on the Main Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Nearly 900 people made their way to downtown Richmond for an evening of live music, dancing, food trucks, vendors and good times at Richmond Main Street’s annual Music on the...
24 Jul
Khalid’s Corner: The Community Has Failed Betty Reid Soskin
I was shocked to hear that someone broke into 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin’s house and savagely beat and robbed her....
09 Jul
How I Went From a Drug Dealer to a Straight-A Student
On Feb. 27, 2012, I was released from prison. In June 2016, just four years later, I graduated at the top of my class from UCLA with the highest honors,...
05 Apr
A Speggtacular Easter Event Leaves Kids Eggstatic
The Iron Triangle's annual Easter egg hunt on Saturday, March 26 -- sponsored by the City of Richmond’s Crime Prevention Department and the Richmond Police, among others -- has become...
18 Mar
Explaining Where I Live – The Good and Bad of Richmond
Violence is often portrayed on the local news. But I feel a sense of safety when I’m at the Marina Bay. The Marina reminds me of the beauty of Richmond...
15 Mar
Where Do You Feel Safe in Richmond?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The shooting deaths of a 14, 15 and 21--year-old in Richmond this month have rocked the community and have youth advocates and community leaders looking for answers. In...
12 Feb
Black-Owned Salon Brings Touch of Hollywood to Point Richmond
Wyvonne Brown still remembers watching her grandmother style hair in her Richmond home. Twenty-five years later, Brown is now the owner and head stylist at Beauty By Nature Hair Studio,...
10 Feb
Residents, Officials Unveil Yellow Brick Road Play Street
Richmond nonprofit Pogo Park, Iron Triangle residents and city officials celebrated the grand opening of the Yellow Brick Road Play Street last week, which includes a series of parks, walking...
16 Jan
Plant a Tree, Help Richmond Go Green
On Jan. 9, volunteers huddled together in the much-needed rain for the area's second street-tree planting event of winter. ...
09 Dec
How Would You Love Your Block?
Richmond, CA is one of seven cities nationwide to plan and implement Love Your Block, a three-year initiative to engage community members in revitalizing their neighborhoods one block at...
08 Sep
Nature Walk Draws Out Hundreds
By Luis CubasClouds couldn’t stop the annual Walk to Nature, hosted by local nonprofit YES Nature to Neighborhoods, on August 29. Nearly four hundred people came out to attend...
24 Jul
The Night My View of Richmond Changed
By Ronvel Sharper, age 16 On July 17, 2015, I joined about a hundred other people taking to Richmond’s streets for a Ceasefire night walk through neighborhoods impacted by gun...
23 Jul
Walking Against Oil and Coal Trains
By Alison Ehara-BrownIn the early morning of July 11th, I joined a group walk along the “blast zones” – the mile-wide sacrifice zones along the rail lines that would...
