Now part of the “Monuments” exhibition on the West Coast, the remnants of Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue will come back east to be transformed into new public art.
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Posted inOur neighborhoods
From Lee to ‘Land Forge’: Charlottesville envisions new public art rooted in Black history and resilience
Three design firms compete to recast the two tons of bronze ingots rendered from melting Charlottesville’s monument of Robert E. Lee.
Posted inCulture
In his new book, ‘Being Dope,’ A.D. Carson raps about racial reckoning in Charlottesville and Clemson, South Carolina
Carson, a UVA professor of hip-hop and the Global South, uses prose, poetry and rap rhythms to explain race and culture. “Dope” is a term that he traces to stereotypes of Black people to rappers reclaiming it as “anything praiseworthy.”
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Louisa’s Bright Hope Baptist Church earns historic recognition after community members pitched in with research
Several church and community members credit the late Gloria Gibson, a community leader in central Virginia, for helping Bright Hope earn the historic landmark designation.
Posted inHealth and safety
Despite federal funding cuts for justice programs, the Uhuru Foundation continues to disrupt cycles of incarceration
The nonprofit helps people like Alphonso Washington, who lost his mother at 13, and lost hope — until Uhuru stepped in to help.
Posted inNewsletter
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflects on education amid upheaval at UVA
Justice Jackson recently visited UVA Law’s Education Rights Institute to discuss her memoir published last year.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Historic Rosenwald school in Albemarle County gets new life as a community center while preserving its past
Rebecca Kinney left St. John Elementary School as a student 71 years ago. Years later she led an effort to restore it.
Posted inCulture
Virginia Humanities details how $1.7 million in federal funding cuts will impact the 50-year-old nonprofit
An “immediate loss this large is impossible to manage without making difficult and painful decisions,” said Executive Director Matthew Gibson.
Posted inCulture
Virginia Humanities will move forward despite federal funding cuts, but ‘there’s going to be a lot of pain’
A 20% budget loss means the nonprofit will fund fewer fellowships, grants and programming in the coming fiscal year, said Executive Director Matthew Gibson.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Charlottesville’s only all-accessible playground hosts free ‘Party in the Park’ on April 27 to celebrate the life of the little boy who inspired it
Bennett’s Village, at Pen Park, honors Bennett McClurken-Gibney, a Charlottesville boy whose genetic disorder never dimmed his love for play.
