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Judge Daniel Partridge Jr. charges the grand jury to bring forward the white men concerned with a recent lynching, further criticizing “white people severely for their treatment of the colored people and declared that the lower class of whites were…

Dr. I. D. Burrell purchases “one of the finest private dwellings owned by any colored citizen in Virginia.”

In order to "create a favorable impression and lighten [their] burdens" and be accepted by the white community, some colored people that are "strangers to the ordinary rules of politeness" must become more like "the better class of colored people".

A freedman explains his solitude in the world much to the confusion of the white man who found him wandering the street, but the freedman insists that he is “nothin’ but Sam.”

A doctor discovers a link between alcoholism and loss of vision, stating that “imperfect eyesight and a craving for drink always go together.”

Doctors report on the dangers of ingesting large doses of ginger.

A white northerner applauds John Mitchell on his efforts to stand up for his race.

The Richmond Times discussed the “Old Time Negro” and the problems in the present day as it looks longingly back on the days during and immediately after slavery.

White union workers refuse to parade unless black workers can join, because it “is disrespectful to organized labor rather than to the colored people.”

Professor W. H. H. Hart argues that “all prevalent practice of designating people as ‘colored’ and ‘white’ should be stopped.”