A Powhatan County judge will be asked tomorrow to set aside guilty verdicts of involuntary manslaughter and assault against the younger of two men convicted in last summer’s shooting death of Tahliek Taliaferro. Attorney Craig S. Cooley, who represents 18-year-old Joseph L. Parrish Jr., says he will argue that there was insufficient evidence in the case to establish that Parrish aided or in any way abetted his cousin’s reckless, unpremeditated actions in Taliaferro’s death.

The FBI is working with the Powhatan County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the slaying of high school student Tahliek Taliaferro for possible civil-rights violations, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.

Hundreds of placard-carrying protesters circled the Powhatan County Courthouse lawn yesterday, decrying as unjust a trial this month that failed to produce murder verdicts in the shooting death of popular high school athlete Tahliek Taliaferro.

The General Assembly got a failing grade from the Virginia NAACP yesterday on the day the national organization commemorated the 100th anniversary of its founding.

The General Assembly got a failing grade from the Virginia NAACP on the day the national organization commemorated its 100th anniversary. Early voting, the gun show loophole and payday lending are areas where the General Assembly has fallen short, said King Salim Khalfani, executive director of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP.

Fresh from winning the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton ignited a political firestorm over who did the most to bring down the ignominious edifice of segregation. In that now infamous interview with FOX News, she compared the roles Dr. Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson played in this effort, concluding: “but it took a president to get it done.“

Although only about a dozen people showed for a Henrico County NAACP-hosted forum with the county’s School Board, they had plenty of questions about equality in the 48,000-student district. More than a year after a previous board voted to temporarily shift some funds from a Fairfield Middle School renovation to a project in the western part of the county, concerns still lingered. The board had answers.

The hot-button issues in Henrico County schools—redistricting, superintendent search, school construction and more—will be on the table this week when the Henrico NAACP and the School Board meet. “This is our first meeting with this [school] board,“ said Tyee Davenport, the Henrico NAACP’s new president. “We hope it will be an open and relaxed meeting.“

PETERSBURG Hal Miles still remembers the days when he and his friends watched black-and-white movies at the Gem Theater. It was the 1960s, and life in the city’s Halifax Triangle area was vibrant.

The Henrico County NAACP installed its newly elected officers Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, during its meeting and holiday social. The oath of office was administered by Del. Joe Morrissey. The 2009-2010 branch officers are: President: Tyee N. Davenport First vice president: Antione Green Second vice president: Drusilla Bridgeforth

A Richmond woman who accused Henrico County police of abusing her during an arrest was convicted yesterday of multiple charges linked to the incident. A Henrico judge, pointedly referring to a prior conviction in Richmond for resisting arrest, sentenced Deontra C. Johnson to one month in jail yesterday in connection with a traffic stop that ended with Johnson being repeatedly Tasered by a Henrico police officer.

The Goochland County NAACP and the local school system are scheduled Monday to hold the second in a series of public forums addressing racial disparities in the district. NAACP member Sekou Shabaka went before the School Board in July to ask school officials to address disproportionately high numbers of African-American students in special education and in discipline cases.

The Richmond NAACP nominating committee will interview general members who are interested in being considered for office or membership on the at-large executive committee. Interviews are scheduled for Monday and Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Richmond branch office at 416 N. 2nd St. For details, call the branch office at (804) 644-9337 or Ruth Thierry at (804) 525-5759.