Henry L. Marsh’s fight was for civil rights, but his values — justice, fairness, equality — extend far beyond any single ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was Richmond’s ...

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long ... Mr. Marsh rose to prominence as a young lawyer during the civil rights movement and helped mount the legal challenge to “Massive Resistance ...

Henry Marsh, D-Richmond, at an event hosted by the ... Before that, Marsh had taken up the causes of African Americans’ rights as a young attorney in the small Richmond firm established by ...

I AM watching my mum die. Slowly. Underneath the ghastly shroud of the last stages of Alzheimer’s disease, my frail, fierce ...

“Richmond would not be what it is today, had it not been for Henry Marsh,” Richmond’s first ... “He really wanted to focus on young leaders and he was never too busy to sit down and ...

Later in the day, Youngkin took to X to note the death of Henry Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, Richmond’s first Black mayor and a former state senator: “This morning, we celebrated Virginia’s ...

Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...