RICHMOND, Va. — Catie Beck sits down for an extensive interview with Levar Stoney, the former Richmond mayor who is now running for lieutenant governor of Virginia, on the latest episode of ” Untold – A WTVR Podcast .”
Stoney spoke openly about his childhood and how his life changed forever when his mother agreed to let his grandmother move him from New York to Virginia.
“I was born to a couple of unwed teenagers. My mother was 16, my father was 18. And I always remind people that it was my grandmother who intervened in my life,” said Stoney. “She’s my superhero. She’s my guardian angel to this day, and she raised me. She treated me as if I were one of her own. In 1988, my family moved to Virginia. My uncle, who still resides to this day in Newport News, told my grandmother that she should move the boys, me and my brother, down to Virginia because there would be more opportunity for us. We were on Long Island, and let’s just say it was not a situation where he saw us being successful. And my grandmother had to go to my mother and say, ‘Hey, I’d like to take the boys.’”…