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Richmond icon recounts a past of trials and triumphs
George Livingston, the city's first elected black mayor.
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Part 2: North Richmond’s inauspicious beginnings
The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions.
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Part 3: North Richmond blues
The music scene that emerged in North Richmond featured a strong, bluesy, country twang that represented not only the influx of southerners to the area during World War II, but also other unique...
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Part 4: North Richmond’s moribund housing projects
In the 1940s and 1950s, the growth of public housing projects swept across urban America. North Richmond was no exception.
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Part 8: North Richmond, where the city’s boundaries end
Civic leaders who seriously grapple with the question of how North Richmond can break its ruinous cycle of crime, poverty and decline often come to the conclusion that its current political...
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A life: Former Richmond Mayor George Livingston
George Livingston liked looking back. His hindsight wasn’t marred by what-ifs or dubious intentions. He gave it all he had, and there’s no shame in that. “What I am proud of is I was able to help...
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