The death of former president Jimmy Carter in late December compelled Willie Dell to reach out to her old friend Henry L. Marsh III. She’d met Marsh in 1973, when he and fellow Richmond City ...

Marsh, who died last week at the age of 91, wasn’t flashy or given to florid oratory. He had long ago tilted at his share of windmills in a consequential career as a civil rights lawyer and political ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a state senator for 22 years, who died Jan. 23 at 91, will lie in state Thursday at the Virginia state Capitol from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m ...

Funeral arrangements made for Henry L. Marsh Funeral arrangements have been made to honor the death of Richmond mayor and senator Henry L. Marsh. Funeral arrangements have been made to honor the death ...

Courtesy of Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School. Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated in Richmond in August 2020. Marsh, a civil rights attorney, longtime Virginia Senator and the ...

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long-serving Virginia state senator who in 1977 became the first Black mayor of Richmond, ushering in an era of African American leadership in the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The funeral arrangements for Henry L. Marsh, III — the first Black mayor of Richmond — have been announced. Marsh died at the age of 91 on Friday, Jan. 24. A political ...

‘He became the voice for so many’: Delegate remembers Senator Henry L. Marsh III He is known as the first Black Richmond Mayor, a Virginia State Senator and a civil rights attorney. He is known as the ...