RVA 5x5 - Deep Dive - Edition #101

EnRichmond and the City's Radio Silence - The Clock Is Ticking

No algorithms. No content filters. Honest and insightful analysis.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first installment of the RVA 5x5 Deep Dive series - a bi-monthly, in-depth look at topics of import in our City and our region (some months, like December, may have more than two editions when the news is slower). The goal is to provide a better understanding of the sometimes complex issues we all face and what possible solutions and/or discussions are needed to address them and make our region better.

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Enrichmond and the City's Radio Silence - The Clock Is Ticking

I won’t do a “Top Stories of 2022” list for this newsletter, but if I did, one of them would surely be the collapse of the Enrichmond Foundation and the radio silence on all fronts concerning its finances, the groups that depended on it, their assets, and the two historic black cemeteries in its portfolio, Evergreen and East End Cemetery.

The important question is not so much what happened in 2022 (even though it is important…