Award-winning Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter William Matthew Ruberry, now retired to Heathsville, has released his first novel, “Harmony in Black and White.”
According to a press release, the book tells the story of rookie reporter Jack Sullivan, whose assignment to the local police beat leads him to uncover a network of crime in Richmond, amid the systemic racism enshrined in the city’s Confederate history.
As the young journalist pulls at the threads of a story that spans from a record high in city homicides to interstate arms running, he is forced to confront the prejudices that color his young life and career.
“Harmony in Black and White,” inspired by the author’s own reporting in the wake of the march by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the murder of George Floyd, “is an unflinching newsroom drama and an examination of the impact of race and implicit biases on our media, law enforcement, and the systems that govern them,” said the release.Ruberry said in the release tha...