MIKE KROPF

Dana Tarleton, center, walks down a backstage hallway, while Alvion Davenport, left, and Tiffany Fuller prepare for a drag performance at Godfrey’s in Richmond, Va., Sunday, May 7, 2023.

Devin Brink walks through Main Street Station after voting on Election Day in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and Virginia State Police officers clash in front of James Branch Cabell Library on VCU’s campus in Richmond, Va., Monday, April 29, 2024.

A Robert E. Lee monument is taken off of its plinth in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, September 8, 2021.

A child holds an American flag during a naturalization ceremony at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond, Va., Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.

Assaddique Abdul-Rahman, an organizer with New Virginia Majority, leads a chant during a demonstration in support of various bills on Lobby Day outside of the General Assembly Building at the state Capitol in Richmond Va., Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.

A truck is driven through a Lee Hy Paving facility in Goochland County, Va., Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

Anthony Clary gestures as he runs through confetti during the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k in Richmond Va., Saturday, April 22, 2023.

Kalen Anderson processes through the arena at an Upper Mattaponi Pow Wow in King William County, Va, Saturday, May 27, 2023.

A demonstrator holds up a sign in front of the Charlottesville Police Station during a Black Lives Matter march in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020.

From left, Curtis Elementary School students Jacqueline Aldana Gonzalez, Jordyn Barton and Andy Perez Luna wave goodbye to their teachers on the last day of the 2022-23 year for Chesterfield County Public Schools in Chesterfield, Va., Friday, June 2, 2023.

A group of students hugs during a walk out at Buford Middle School against gun violence following the shooting deaths of three students at UVa. Charlottesville, Va., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. 

Friends and family members of Sherrell Brown, who has been missing for over three months, attend a news conference outside of her home in Petersburg, Va., Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Brown vanished without explanation, an act that her family said was completely inconsistent with her character.

A local activist leads a chant during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, June 21, 2020.

An aerial view of RVA Pieces, a decade-old chess club, as they meet in Monroe Park in Richmond, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2024.

Alene Lawson opens a drawer in the kitchen of her house which caught on fire the day before in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, March 22, 2023.

Emergency responders fight a fire after lightning struck the house of Ola Slaughter in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023.

VCU student Ashc (sic) holds up a sign during a pro-Palestine demonstration on VCU’s campus in Richmond, Va., Monday, April 29, 2024.

Bill Gray experiences chamber music by Mozart in a six dimensional audio and visual virtual reality at the Center of Developing Entrepreneurs in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. A talk by Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival Co-Artistic Director Timothy Summers preceded the experience.

Mustafa, a seventh grader at Buford Middle School, has his hair cut in Charlottesville Va., Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Local barbers and hair braiders give free hair cuts and braids to students and staff thanks to a collaboration between Charlottesville Schools and 100 Black Men of Central Virginia. 

University of Virginia students yell during a pro-Palestine march  in Charlottesville Va., Thursday, May 20, 2021.