On Friday night, Connor’s Heroes, a non-profit organization based in Richmond, raised a record-breaking $641,000 at their annual Heroes Art Ball to benefit Central Virginia families.
Kennedy’s death had profound impacts on the city, the state and the nation, as a whole. His political legacy helped push Virginia forward and while slow, helped usher in change. Today, Richmond has a school named for the late president.
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the