Philip Cobbs tells the story of his birthplace, and why we should all know its history.
Category: The big stories
These are the big reports you can’t miss. Let’s tell our stories together, for our own community and for the rest of the country that is watching what happens in the Charlottesville area.
2024 Voter Guide for Central Virginia
Help us build this year’s voter guide by taking a 2-question survey. What questions do you have for the candidates who want to represent you?
Fifeville residents got a say in a private developer’s plans by making an unusual agreement
The resulting project is designed to give low income residents jobs, services and affordable housing. And the developer will earn “much less” profit because of it.
Voters didn’t have a say in nearly 75% of local Central Virginia races this year — because there weren’t enough candidates
Folks on the ground say it’s hard to get people to volunteer for unpaid positions subject to long hours, political polarization, and public vitriol.
Charlottesville High students and teachers at their breaking point with fights, lockdowns and adults trespassing on campus
27 of 96 teachers called out because of fights, forcing the high school to close for three days.
Charlottesville had — and lost — a shelter that social workers say could have helped hundreds of unhoused people off the streets
Had the shelter continued, its homeless service workers are convinced they could move hundreds more people off the streets, including many of those now camped downtown.
Lynching victim John Henry James receives ‘one little drop of justice’ 125 years after his death
Judge called posthumous rape indictment a “mockery of the judicial system. Not as an instrument of justice, but as cause to lynch a man simply because he was Black.”
2023 Voter Guide for Central Virginia
This year, Charlottesville Tomorrow is expanding its voter guide to more of the counties in the region.
The great nephew of one of the Burnley-Moran Elementary School namesakes defends his aunt’s legacy
Sarepta Moran was a white elementary school principal during segregation and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, but her nephew says that doesn’t mean she was racist.
Democratic state senate candidates Hudson and Deeds debate the need for a new generation of legislators versus the value of seniority
In a forum hosted by Charlottesville Tomorrow and students at the UVA Center for Politics Monday evening, hundreds of community members submitted questions ahead of the June 20 primary election.