Michael Paul Williams

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This story is the latest installment of RVA100, our series that highlights the people, places and objects that define the Richmond region.

This story is the latest installment of RVA100, our series that highlights the people, places and objects that define the Richmond region.

In a Fourth of July marked by the haunting image of a Black commuter encircled by masked Patriot Front extremists, America’s hard-won civil rights progress is being reversed by resurgent

As Norfolk's MacArthur Center, pictured, and Richmond's Coliseum fade into history, their decline serves as a cautionary tale about the limits of splashy economic-development projects, the costs of regional fragmentation, and the inevitability of civic landmarks becoming monuments to obsolescence, writes Michael Paul Williams.

As Norfolk’s MacArthur Center and Richmond’s Coliseum fade into history, their decline serves as a cautionary tale about the limits of splashy economic-development projects, the costs of regional fragmentation, and

A decade but seemingly a lifetime ago, concerns over the overpolicing and over-surveillance of African American communities were front and center at a Georgetown University Law Center conference

For years, officials have justified expanding surveillance technologies in the name of public safety, but Richmond’s growing network of cameras raises urgent questions about privacy, accountability and whether the communities

Shaun Byrnes and his wife drove from their home in Northern Virginia last week to visit the graves of friends buried in Arlington National Cemetery , as they do periodically.

For years, officials have justified expanding surveillance technologies in the name of public safety, but Richmond’s growing network of cameras raises urgent questions about privacy, accountability and whether the communities