Slave Trail Seeks to Free City’s History

By Stephanie Power and Anna Yates
Capital News Service
RICHMOND – Near the corner of 17th and Main streets downtown is the site of Lumpkin’s Jail, where African slaves arriving at the Manchester docks were held before being sold off.
Down the street, under a parking lot, is an old burial ground for slaves and poor free blacks. [...]

Nicholas Langhorne Talks General Assembly

By Brittany Allen
VCU InSight
VCU’s Capitol News Service students have a special assignment. They report on the goings-ons of the Virginia General Assembly. InSight’s Brittany Allen sat down to talk to CNS reporter Nicholas Langhorne about Crossover Day.

VCU Faculty Leader Talks About Rao Selection

By Jeremy Hirsch and Nurah Majeed
VCU InSight
VCU Insight’s Jeremy Hirsch interviews Faculty Senate president Dan Ream. Ream discusses the selection of VCU President-Elect Michael Rao.

VCU Community Members Witness Historic Inauguration

By Mark Coffman and Nurah Majeed
VCU InSight
RICHMOND, Va — While the rest of the country watched on TV, some members of the VCU community braved the crowds and chilly temperatures to attend the recent inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Shannon Williams, a graphic designer at Founders Hall, said she had been waiting for this day [...]

Donations, Like Votes, Favor Obama

By Alyssa W. Walden
VCU Multimedia Journalism
If dollars were votes, Virginia still would have swung blue in 2008 for Barack Obama.
Barack Obama received $17,031,854.04 from Virginians alone in the time before the Nov. 4 election. Virginians gave $15,404,295.78 to presidential hopeful John McCain.
According to a recent computer analysis of data from the Federal Elections Commission, Virginians [...]

Tough Job Listing Donors’ Occupations

By Alyssa W. Walden
VCU Multimedia Journalism

RICHMOND, Va.–Presidential incumbent Barack Obama’s campaign team may have been more diligent in following campaign finance laws, a recent computer analysis shows.
Based on data from the Federal Elections Commission, more dollars from Obama’s Virginia contributions were properly documented than those received by Republican John McCain.
According to federal campaign finance law, [...]

Virginia Goes Blue

By Bobby McBride, Jonathan White, and Leonard Spencer
VCU InSight
Barack Obama’s historic U.S. Presidential Election victory has resulted in Virginia doing something that they haven’t done in a while: for the first time since 1964, the state of Virginia supported the Democratic Party, anchored by new U.S. President Obama and new state senator Mark Warner.
Before this [...]