Community members paint mural honoring Richmond neighborhood’s inclusive history

Nazerah Tesfazghi, 9, painstakingly dabbed light blue paint onto the mural taking shape on the soundwall just outside Richmond’s Parchester Village last weekend.

The Richmond resident was one of a group of volunteers working on the approximately quarter-mile-long, 7-foot-tall mural along Giant Road celebrating the neighborhood, described by many as the only place where African Americans could purchase homes in Richmond in the 1940s, if not for years after that.