CraigBelcher

Managing Editor, Richmond Free Press, former Arts & Entertainment Editor @Richmondmag, Afrocentric Anglophile, @sixers fan.

[Richmond Free Press @FreePressRVA]

Richmond Free Press managing editor, @CraigBelcher sits down with Mayor @LevarStoney as he reflects on his time in office during his final days as mayor.
Photo by Julianne Tripp Hillian / Richmond Free Press.

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Diddy Taken Into Federal Custody in New York https://t.co/5XXQ7w6Ybs via @TMZ

[Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast @RTRSPodcast]

Joel Embiid has never lost in the Olympics.

[RNPA @RNPA_union]

Destination unknown?

@RTDNEWS publisher Kelly Till said today paper is leaving downtown #Rva HQ April ‘25.

No word - yet - where news, mrkting folks will go. Maybe Hanover plant?

Quitting #Rva after generations there would cut literal, figurative bond w/ our core audience.

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@iamslickrick_ One R&B singer made a career off of this sound.

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@blacklionking73 @AAMBCAwards Well deserved!

[Acyn @Acyn]

“She doesn't have to go out and sell sneakers or bibles, you know? All she did was announce she is running and they said where do we sign up?”

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This week, we present a portion of Frederick Douglass’ powerful speech “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” Delivered on July 5, 1852, this address remains a poignant and searing critique of our nation’s founding principles versus its practices. https://t.co/k6CFjViCb4

[Jeff Kolb @JeffKolbFOX4]

Chilling stories of enduring racism from the legendary Reggie Jackson in response to @AROD's question about returning to Rickwood Field.

"I wouldn't wish it on anybody."

Tells how people threatened to burn down the apartment he was staying at.

@FOX4 @MLBONFOX

[12 On Your Side WWBT Richmond @12OnYourSide]

Baseball legend Willie Mays dies at 93 https://t.co/yBEk6yZokj

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

New champion loading …

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

NEWS

Sean “Diddy” Combs has just posted this video in reaction to the video of him beating up his then girlfriend Cassie.

A reminder as you watch this that Diddy has been credibly accused of many years of abuse, trafficking, rape, and much much more.

He also spent months denying that he ever committed any acts of domestic violence.

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A “Liberated Zone for Gaza” is growing outside of Virginia Commonwealth University’s James Branch Cabell Library in Richmond, Virginia. A rally is set for 5 p.m. #richmondva #rva #StudentsForGaza

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Karl Wallinger, frontman of World Party, the Waterboys, dies at 66 https://t.co/P8iWRJcyJZ

[Tyler Layne @TylerLayneMusic]

Connie Clay says she was fired after blowing the whistle about Richmond’s ongoing violations of government transparency laws.

She says her boss, who allegedly suppressed the release of certain public info, “didn’t want the city to look stupid.”

Story: https://t.co/VPVBVY5QGB

[The Phifth Quarter @The_PhifthQ]

Dear Joel Embiid,

We miss you.

Best,

Philadelphia

[CraigBelcher @CraigBelcher]

@georgia_geen Mine too!

[Philadelphia 76ers @sixers]

STATEMENT WIN.

🪙 @cryptocom

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@stephenhicks if you're feelin lucky duck then ...

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How long it will take the press to find one of Nikki Haley's black friends?