Richmond Independent Press

During the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s, even the sleepysouthern town of Richmond was not immune to the emergence of radicalcounterculturalism.

A change in the traditional ideas of objective journalismspurred an underground movement in the press.

The Sunflower, Richmond's first underground newspaper,appeared in 1967 and set the stage for a host of alternative Richmond medialasting into the 1990s and beyond.

Publications such as the Richmond Chronicle, the Richmond Mercury and the Commonwealth Times, as wellas those covering the African American community, such as Afro, haveserved the citizens of Richmond searching for a change in the status quo.

Joinauthor and former ThroTTle editor Dale Brumfield as he explores aforgotten history of a cultural revolution in the River City.