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The public has 30 days to comment on Youngkin’s new transgender student policies and Charlottesville teachers and parents are weighing in
“The instability is what’s really so difficult to navigate,” said a Charlottesville mother of a non-binary child. “How much danger are we going to be in? How much are our lives about to change?”
Race is at the center of Louisa County School Board special election
About 30% of the county’s students aren’t white, but the school board has been all white since 2014.
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After learning that Albemarle was struggling to stock period products, a local mom took matters into her own hands
Sarah Harris is raising money to donate period products to Albemarle County Public Schools.
In Charlottesville’s ‘summer of hate,’ a Chinese American pastor found his place in the struggle for civil rights
Michael Cheuk didn’t know how we would respond to the Unite the Right rally — until he reconsidered his own family history and his faith.
In the police department, it was a struggle to be Black, and at home, it was a struggle to be blue
What does it mean to be Black in the Charlottesville Police Department? A former detective remembers the KKK rally of 2017 — and what it means when law enforcement tries to recruit minority officers.
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An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down
Farmville earns $15,000 and the private company that operates the center earns $2 million per month from the federal government, even though they had a huge COVID-19 outbreak and detainees say that conditions there have been unbearable.
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While Charlottesville erected Confederate monuments, hundreds of African American residents were sitting for professional portraits
A new exhibition tells the story through nearly 200 portraits taken in the Holsinger photography studio at the turn of the 20th Century.
Wanna try an e-bike? Josh Carp will lend you his
As interest in e-biking grows in Charlottesville, Carp launched a lending library out of his laundry room.
Six monkeypox cases are confirmed in the Blue Ridge Health District, but there aren’t enough vaccines for everyone eligible
“It’s a very limited amount of vaccines we’ve received and administered,” said Kathryn Goodman, a spokesperson for the Blue Ridge Health District.
With just six bus drivers, more than 3,000 Charlottesville City Schools children are making their own ways to school this year
“A lot of parents are freaking out right now,” said Noelle Dwyer.
Our reporters are building community, in and out of the newsroom
Meet Tamica Jean-Charles, local journalist — and also a Charlottesville newcomer who is bringing local people together.
Eviction filings soar as rent relief program winds down
More than 100 people crammed into the Albemarle County courthouse Thursday for yet another marathon day of eviction hearings.
Public housing resident speaks about new youth program — ‘We have to show them that those dreams are possible’
“We’re so busy trying to tell them to be still, to be quiet and behave. How can they grow like that?” says Asia Green.
After struggling as a child, mother and grandmother in Charlottesville public housing, Mary Anderson wants to help a new generation thrive
Anderson grew up in Westhaven in the 1970s and now lives there in her grandmother’s old unit.
New pictures of Charlottesville in 2017 tell the story of a community that fought back
Photographer Ézé Amos says its time for #charlottesville to be about the people who live here.
Why Charlottesville? Geography, history, racism and local politics all collided in 2017
“It’s the birthplace of our democracy,” said Emily Gorcenski. “And if you want to assault the ideals of democracy, you go to where it started. It’s as simple as that.”
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