The commission includes well-respected community and city leaders from a wide variety of perspectives and viewpoints, who will solicit public feedback and make official recommendations on how to add context to, rather than outright remove, the city’s Confederate statues.

Richmond favorites Future Prospect will kick the evening off, followed by New Orleans quintet Galactic, who seamlessly blend rock, jazz, hip-hop, and soul for a night of great music that will keep you on your feet.

CARITAS, a nonprofit that strives to end homelessness, plans to start a long-term recovery program for women in Richmond after the success of its program for men, The Healing Place. The women’s facility is tentatively scheduled to open in late 2017 or early 2018.

The program will provide free, nutritious meals to anyone under the age of 18 at 80 locations across the city all summer long.

“We’ve never spent a penny on advertisements,” owner Noelle Archibald said proudly. “It’s all been organic growth through word of mouth and personal relationships.”