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'Removing obstacles to growth' | Richmond Free Press | Serving the African American Community in Richmond, VA

President Hakim J. Lucas used Virginia Union University’s Founders Day celebrations to announce a partnership with a New York-based development and investment firm to build affordable housing along Brook and Overbrook roads. The Steinbridge Group has committed $42 million to build 130 to 200 residences on the northern edge of VUU’s campus. During the Feb. 2 press conference, the group’s founder and CEO, Tawan Davis, said his firm had worked with business- man and philanthropist Robert F. Smith’s Student Freedom Initiative (SFI) to select VUU as the first HBCU to receive an investment as part of its $100 million initiative announced in November 2023. Its aim is to help HBCUs and other minority-serving institu- tions make underutilized assets economically productive, thereby diversifying their revenue streams and improving their financial situations and endowments. Mr. Davis estimated that Steinbridge’s investment in VUU will increase the university’s endowme

VUU partnership will build up to 200 residences along campus

VUU will contribute about 2 acres of land to be redeveloped, and a New York-based investment firm will commit $40 million.

Rev. Barber works with Faiths United to Save Democracy and fight poverty in the US

Bishop William J. Barber II, president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of Poor People’s Campaign, was scheduled to speak on Wednesday at SIU-Edwardsville but snow and frigid weather

Religious leaders mark MLK Day with voter mobilization

Religious leaders to mark MLK Day with early start for 2024 voter mobilization

(RNS) 'We're starting early because we need to spend a lot more time educating people about how to vote, how to vote against the rising tide of misinformation,' said the Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner.