OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

THIRTY-FIRST STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
823 N. 31ST STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23223
(804) 226-0150
December 2, 2011
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
I hope this correspondence finds you in the best of health and spirits. I am writing to ask for your consideration in a matter of great urgency to my community and our country.
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Letter to the editor

On behalf of Karen Legato, Executive Director of FAN FREE CLINIC (FFC), the FFC staff and board, I am writing to thank you for the Urban Views Weekly cover story on November 30: “(9 min. 30 sec.) World AIDS Day.”
Camisha Jones did a wonderful and thorough job writing a thought-provoking piece about RVA Remembers 2011and [...]

Out In The Open: Family Violence in Richmond

by Judith Bailey,
Past Chair, Family and Children’s Trust Fund of Virginia Board of Trustees
 

 
It may happen behind closed doors, but the toll that it’s taking on the City of Richmond is no secret. Family violence costs us, in human suffering at every age, rising costs for mental health and medical care, strained resources for law [...]