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Ashley Williams, founder of BareSOUL Yoga and Wellness in Shockoe Slip (Photo by Adam Ewing)
When Vicki Wise heard the news on Sept. 23 that the two police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, would not face criminal charges, she was angry. After a summer steeped in racial tension, it felt like yet another reminder that the lives of Black people â and especially Black women like her â arenât valued in this country. Â
She wanted to do something to honor Taylor, so she put on a Black Lives Matter T-shirt, grabbed her yoga mat and joined dozens of other Richmonders for community yoga at the 17th Street Market in Shockoe Bottom. Now a public square laced with colorful string lights and lined with restaurants, the 17th Street Market was once at the center of the busiest slave trading post north of New Orleans.
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Foundation House mothers
Three mothers have graduated from the Foundation House Ministries program, giving them the tools to become effective, stable parents, said officials. The nonprofit provides financial, emotional, and physical support to mothers or pregnant women who struggle with addiction, homelessness, and joblessness. The women must complete a checklist before graduating, and more than 100 women have graduated since the ministry opened in 2014.
The mothers graduated in December and were required to pass the program’s curriculum, find stable housing, find reliable childcare and transportation, and enroll in school or find employment. Graduate Angel T. and her son, Lakino, will be moving out of Foundation House Ministries and into their own place. “I m both nervous and excited to be graduating and moving into my own apartment, said Ang
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To Ireland’s €6bn tourism industry, however, they are the glue that binds itineraries together, the meeters-and-greeters, storytellers, fixers and friendly faces of a country so many visit for its céad míle fáilte.
They work mostly with overseas visitors (members of ATGI, the Approved Tourist Guides of Ireland, speak 21 languages from Arabic to Slovak). But in spring of this year, the whole sector went up in smoke. “I was like a barometer in a way,” says Suzanne Burns of Kinsale Food Tours (
kinsalefoodtours.ie). “I link into so many businesses in the town; if I get cancelled it affects others too. I had something like 200 bookings by the time February rolled in, but then I started getting mass cancellations.”