Amid cheering supporters on the courthouse steps, Nicole Pries and Lindsey Oliver become Richmond’s first same-sex married couple.
Half a century later, the editor and publisher of the Richmond Free Press still searches for justice.
In the search for a message, the "99 percent" find a purpose with Occupy Richmond.
The good news: When the dust clears from the recession, analysts expect that most newspapers will be poised for a recovery. The bad: It's largely because they've fired at least a quarter of their newsroom, and the business model is still badly broken.
Virginia state and federal laws don't prohibit discrimination against sexual minorities. But the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act evidently stands a far greater chance than in the previous decades.