Richmond Now: Coloring Activity Book

It was Community Care Night at and we learned how to administer Narcan in an opioid overdose. Thanks Revive DBHDS
We had a table set up of coloring pages and had guests write questions they pose to other Richmonders for our new edition of Richmond Now!

Send us questions you want answered by your community.

Happy 804 Day 😁
Today ONLY! Tickets to the music mixer & fundraiser are $15!!!

Raffle prizes, live-music, Photo Booth, Vendors and more!!!

Enjoy an evening in The Loft at The Hof Garden with surrounded by the Richmond music community. Come meet vendors who specialize in services that help to grow a musician's career AND see a concert jam packed with some of the 804's best talent. To put a cherry on top of this amazing event, ticket and raffle proceeds will benefit local community group Rise For Youth. 
Come ready to mingle, support locally and listen to some music! So get your tickets from www.HearRVA.com/event

Music by: DJ B-Rice, Jon Swaii, Kaay Ta**us, Kenneka Cook and Chance Fischer

When: Sunday, August 7, 2022
Where: The Loft (The Hof Garden) 2818 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23230
Time: 5-9PM
Tickets: Regular $20, Day of $25 (1 raffle ticket given with each purchase)

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Here is an illustration made to honor the Richmond 34. Happy Black History Month. ✊🏾

Feb. 22, 2022 marks 62 years since 34 Virginia Union University students were arrested at a sit-in protest in downtown Richmond. After listening to speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. and hearing about the sit-ins from Greensboro, NC in January 1960, more than 200 Virginia Union University (VUU) students decided to have their own sit-ins in segregated Richmond, VA department stores. Marches and sit-ins went peacefully until 34 VUU students were arrested and charged with trespassing as they sat down and studied at the famous all-white Richmond Room, the lunch counter at the then-segregated Thalhimers department store.

These students' actions were a key part of the movement leading to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The pressure from the Richmond 34 along with hundreds of other protestors forced many businesses to desegregate. The Thalhimers department store ended up being one of the first to allow Black customers the same services as white customers by the end of 1960.

What is community? Check out this excerpt from and finish reading his essay on our blog.

C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y By BlackLiq

“One of the most overused words is “Community.” So much that a community itself becomes overused. I used to roll my eyes everytime someone would say “Your community could really use you Black.” There was a time where I felt I wasn’t part of Richmond’s community, though I worked so hard to make Richmond part of everything I do. I was “Drawing crowds. Building a crowd of Hip Hop artists. Activists. Entrepreneurs. Movers and shakers. People who didn’t feel accepted. People like me.” That’s the thing about being a MC though, you move crowds. “

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Communicating to someone is more than talking. Everyone should be actively engaged while listening and talking without distractions around.

Richmond Now! has partnered up with A Better Day Than Yesterday] and created a workbook to better serve the families being reunified in our community after separation from incarceration, divorce and deployment.

Please check out the wonderful work A Better Day Than Yesterday] is doing and download this page in RN!: Vol. 5 to communicate with someone you know. www.RichmondNow.org

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Are you ready to vote this November 2nd?
Please check out all the information out there about our local candidates. These local elections matter because they directly affect you.
**Find more information at: www.elections.Virginia.gov

Next couple of slides show you the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General the race. Also included are early voting locations in Richmond and important dates.

-Registering to vote ends tomorrow 10/12

-Early voting is happening now until 10/30

-Deadline for a ballot to be mailed to you is 10/22

Mural:

If you haven’t gone to the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia today is your chance! There is free admission for all plus fun activities (Friday 10/1).

Freedom Fridays | Fri., Oct. 1 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, 122 W. Leigh St. | Free | Enjoy free admission to the museum’s exhibitions + special activities

Henry “Box” Brown (1815-unknown) was an enslaved man who shipped himself to freedom in a wooden box. Born on a plantation in Louisa, Virginia, Henry was sent to work in a to***co factory in Richmond at age 15. He had a wife and four children who were later sold to a plantation in North Carolina. This tragic, irrevocable loss of his family fueled his ambition for freedom. In 1849, Henry made a 27-hour journey from Richmond to Philadelphia tangled in a box labeled “dry goods.” Henry’s story of perseverance is one that is not widely known. Not only did he accomplish an unfathomable feat, but he then turned his freedom narrative into an anti-slavery stage show as Henry “Box” Brown. In remembrance of Henry “Box” Brown, a metal replication of the box he escaped in can be viewed on Richmond’s Canal Walk not far from the to***co factory in which he worked.

Find this coloring page illustration by in Richmond Now!: V5 “Boundaries”.
www.RichmondNow.org

It’s good to walk around town and learn about its history.

Have you been by the Emmett C. Burke Clock Tower in historic Jackson Ward?
Emmett C. Burke first started out as a cashier making $50 a month at St. Luke Penny Saving Bank. This bank was then turned into Consolidated Bank and Trust and is now Premiere Bank which still operates on 1st and Marshall Streets.

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This illustration is a direct response to the More Than Art inner city mural project taking place in Richmond, VA. The title, "Make Change", encourages the action to go beyond the standards of society to bring a new way of thinking into the world for a better place. How can we spark change in the areas that need it the most? Art has the power to bring people together from all walks of life to accomplish this mission. -Dkane

Learn more about community project and fundraising efforts.

Grab this coloring sheet in the newest issue of Richmond Now! V.5 “Boundaries”
www.RichmondNow.org