Jahd Khalil
Radio IQ Richmond ReporterJahd Khalil is a reporter and producer in Richmond.
Originally from Nebraska, Khalil was previously based in Cairo where he helped co-found Madamasr.com. He was a reporting fellow with The GroundTruth Project and the University of California-Berkeley’s 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship.
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The Virginia Department of Health announced Thursday that a system of scannable barcodes linking to vaccination status was live. -
The Virginia Redistricting Commission will look at long-awaited new political maps on Monday. Wednesday the Commission gave map-drawers a few sets of instructions to draw the maps, but were at a partisan stalemate over directives around districting and race.
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A task force created to make recommendations on the form of a Civilian Review Board in Richmond will present its final report to city council Monday.
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The 12-ton bronze statue of Robert E Lee stood six stories tall over Richmond’s Monument avenue for 130 years, until it was removed in short order by work crews Wednesday.
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The pandemic’s disruptions to the census meant that a typically rich set of data has some issues, particularly in college towns.
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Officials with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation are expecting big numbers, like most holiday weekends, at state parks over the long weekend, although visits are down from the highs of the pandemic generally.
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Governor Ralph Northam pardoned seven Black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman in Martinsville Tuesday morning, citing a lack of due process and disproportionate, racially-based sentencing.
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As Virginia coordinates public health efforts with the federal agencies in the effort to resettle Afghans and repatriate Americans from Afghanistan, very few arrivals have tested positive for COVID-19, Northam Administration officials said in a press call Friday.
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During a short break during a three-hour meeting of the Virginia Redistricting Commission meeting, a hot-mic moment demonstrated the possibilities and limitations of community input on the process.
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Finding housing is an issue for many Virginians, but it’s also presenting an issue for the organizations trying to resettle some of the Afghans coming to the U.S. on special immigrant visas, Virginia refugee advocates say.
