When Yorgelys Vazquez heard about the U.S. government’s middle-of-the-night bombing of her hometown of Caracas, Venezuela last month, the barista was wide awake, filled with a mix of feelings about the events 2,000 miles from Henrico County.
“I was scared,” Vazquez said during a lull in a
In honor of February as Black History Month, the Henrico Citizen will spotlight (on each weekday during the month) an important current or former Black resident of Henrico whose life has helped shape the county.
Born Jan. 29, 1937, in Henrico County, Dr. Benjamin Joseph Lambert III would go on
Henrico’s long-running literary event All Henrico Reads will return on Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m. with Walter Mosley. The event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Henrico Sports & Events Center, at 1 All Star Boulevard in Glen Allen.
Mosley
For nearly six weeks, the classroom of Rebecca Brown’s son, a fifth-grader at Maybeury Elementary School, has been without heat.
With the classroom temperature at only 36 degrees, teachers were forced to combine classes and place close to 50 students in one classroom. Then, about a week later, the