Twenty-three years since it was first released, a documentary about Charlottesville’s West Main Street sold out a screening at the 2018 Virginia Film Festival. “West Main Street,” directed by local filmmakers Chris Farina and Reid Oechslin, portrays the...
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A Charlottesville court on Friday heard seven hours of arguments over ten motions in a lawsuit filed against the City of Charlottesville after the City Council voted in early 2017 to remove the downtown statue of Confederate Gen. Robert...
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Albemarle County Public Schools could soon review the names of its school buildings and change those that are “inconsistent with the [school division’s] values.” School Board Chairwoman Kate Acuff proposed a review of school naming policies and building...
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Albemarle County Public Schools on Wednesday launched Reframing the Narrative, a yearlong review and evaluation of the division’s social studies curriculum. “The idea is for teachers and students to confront ‘hard history’ in gaining a deeper understanding of the...
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At the University of Virginia on Tuesday, leaders of two of America’s most-visited museums shared ideas for promoting inclusion and respect by educating people about difficult aspects of history. Sara Bloomfield, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial...
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Gov. Ralph Northam highlighted his support for preserving historic African-American cemeteries for the second time in four days. Northam toured an exhibit on the Daughters of Zion Cemetery at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society on Monday. Last week, he...
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Following a contentious meeting of the Albemarle County School Board, the county schools are sticking with a dress code policy that does not ban Confederate symbols. On Thursday, dozens of community members gathered in a small room at the...
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About 200 community members gathered Sunday evening to hear reflections from attendees of a community civil rights pilgrimage that took place last month. Ninety-eight community members took a nearly weeklong trip in July to the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy...
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As a child, Dr. Marcus Martin heard stories about grave robbers, or “ogres,” in African-American graveyards. He didn’t think much of it then, he said, but later, as he became a physician and a professor of medicine at the...
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Benjamin F. Yancey Elementary School and its predecessors have anchored Southern Albemarle's African-American community for almost 150 years. In 2017, Albemarle County closed the school in response to low enrollment and a loss of funding.
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Written by:
Brielle Entzminger,
Bryauna Kralik,
Emily Hays, and Gracie Kreth
A pilgrimage is a spiritual journey that, with its elements of symbolism, ritual and enlightenment, seems almost medieval in the 21st century. The symbolic reason approximately 100 Charlottesvillians boarded buses July 8 for a six-day civil rights pilgrimage was...
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Students at Scottsville Elementary School soon will be a part of a hands-on, multi-subject project revolving around the history of bread. The project was proposed by Kristie Obrecht, the school’s librarian and gifted-education teacher. Dubbed Our Global Hearth: Exploring...
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