Category: People
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Title IX Remix: will new rules on sexual harassment & assault investigations serve justice?
Eight months ago I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the US Department of Education for information about a Title IX investigation that was opened at the University of Virginia on April 19, 2019, thinking it might provide information and insight about a process often shrouded in secrecy. Last week, I received…
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Slave Block: historical marker thief disrupts the narrative in Charlottesville
We naturally want what happens in the world to reinforce our notion of reality, to serve as examples of the things we believe in, but the truth, as Oscar Wilde observed, is rarely pure and never simple. When the historical marker for the slave auction block in Court Square went missing in the early morning…
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A Charlottesville newspaper asked community leaders what their hopes for the future were. Everyone interviewed was white.
C-Ville Weeky Editor Laura Longhine has issued a mea culpa for this week’s story that asked community leaders about their hopes for Charlottesville’s future. Everyone interviewed was white. “Since publication, some readers have rightly called out the fact that none of the respondents in this piece are people of color, and that there are far…
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Famous Mural Artist Rebukes Local Weekly for Insinuating Her Work is Racist
What happens when a world famous mural artist, commissioned recently by Bono on behalf of Paint (RED) to help raise awareness in the fight against AIDS, whose was selected earlier this year to paint murals at Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School in South L.A. as part of a week-long Maya Angelou Mural Festival in…
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Real Deal: Young Entrepreneur Bakes with a Mission to Heal
Twenty-two year old Hannah Deal says she began baking at the age of three, and that throughout her childhood the worst punishment that her parents could inflict was to ban her from the kitchen. Later, at James Madison University, she says she dealt with stress by baking, and by her third year she had decided…
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Flashback: what was it like moving to the DTM in 1980?
In 1980, local realtor Roger Voisinet published an article in the Daily Progress about his decision to live on the Downtown Mall (not something too many people considered back then) and his hopes for the urban experiment. So, did it become what he imagined it would? “Yes, the Mall did become what I imagined and…
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Saying Goodbye: Main Street Arena Architect Reflects on its Demolition
Local restoration architect Henry J. Browne, now in his 80s, has been stopping in for coffee at the restaurant at the Omni Hotel this past week, not necessarily for the coffee, but for the view it provides of the building across the way that he designed over 20 years ago, and which is about to…
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Video: “White silence is violence…”
Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was just sentenced to life in prison for killing Heather Heyer in a vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. In this video, the Charlottesville community reflects on its history and recovery since the August 2017 rally. pic.twitter.com/EaS3T6vxPs — HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 11, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Dewberry’s Rat Hotel: Could the Charlottesville eyesore cause serious injury?
The infamous Rat Hotel in Boston was a deteriorating, crappy dive back in the 1970s and 80s, but at least it hosted bands like the Cars, Talking Heads, the B-52s, The Ramones, and The Police. Our deteriorating, crappy Rat Hotel just hosts rats. According to sources who work close to Atlanta-based developer John Dewberry’s “Landmark”…
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