Virginia State University News

Before the age of 20, more than half of all children in the United States will receive food stamps.

Monica Anderson and Stanley Edmonds go to different universities in Virginia. But at the opening of this past weekend's 22nd annual Virginia Film Festival, a unique documentary on their schools' bands and last year's presidential election brought the Fredericksburg-area youths together for a special night.

You'd think there'd be a limit to how much you could accomplish by concealing your identities behind the names of famous female artists and dressing like gorillas.

Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church is celebrating its 123rd anniversary Sunday. The Rev.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year's festival.

Clashing cymbals, twirling batons, synchronized marching... and political rhetoric? Only in French director Claude Miller's latest documentary, Marching Band , which follows the lives of UVA's marching band while last year's now-legendary campaign of Barack Obama fired up young voters across the nation.

West Virginia's community and technical colleges are benefiting from enrollment bumps as students seek shelter from a shaky economy.

The National Caucus and Center for Community Economic Development and Virginia Cooperative Extension are sponsoring a one-day only mortgage default clinic for homeowners at risk of foreclosure on Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Caroline County Community Center.

Four sets of nearly identical floor plans. Six hundred sixty square feet. All in the same building.

October 30, 2009 'True Blood' actor, GW grad Sam Trammell visits home Chip Ellis Amy and Chris Dent of Charleston got to meet one of their favorite actors, Sam Trammell of HBO's "True Blood," at the West Virginia Culture Center on Friday.

A French documentary that explores last fall's presidential election through the sounds of two Virginia marching bands will make its U.S. debut next week.

Education: Winfield High School, 1997; bachelor of science, communications, West Virginia State University, 2001; bachelor of arts, English: professional writing, West Virginia State, 2002; master of fine arts, film and media arts, Temple University, 2008.

A steady, raw drizzle descends on Petersburg as the Chevy Suburban carrying Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds pulls into the parking lot of Virginia State University.

For long, the ties have bound in a general way church and business for civil rights, a just society and a better world, which nonetheless wreaks in war in Afghanistan and other places.

Steaven E. Paige, the son of the late Junius and Lucy Paige, expired Monday, Oct.

Tomorrow, residents of the city and the surrounding area are invited to come out to the Petersburg Fall Family Festival.

The families of early 20th Century Malden played a distinct role in the life of Booker T. Washington and those families are now being honored.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Oct. 6 announced the selection of 15 historically African-American land-grant educational institutions in 14 states to receive $1.5 million in economic development and business promotion grants.

Manna Meal is seeking volunteers to work in the Manna Meal garden from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

On Saturday head on over to Historic Old Towne Petersburg for the Fall Family Festival .