Post written by Tamara D. Fair It’s no dice for Richmond’s Urban One casino project. The casino, which allegedly would have been the country’s first...
Politics
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to melt down Charlottesville Confederate statue for public art project
Community Development, Politics
For Immediate Release December 7, 2021 Media Contact: Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director (434) 260-8724 | info@jeffschoolheritagecenter.org...
Letter to the Editor: Court Square Slave Block Citizen Advocacy Group [CSSB group]
Community Development, Education, Politics
Contributed by Robert Gest III, Ed.D. | Colonel, USAF (Retired) Recognizing the many months of work the Historic Resources Committee (HRC) and its...
Election results show policing and public safety are top issues for Black voters
OPINION: David Love writes that the 2021 elections demonstrate why the time is now for Democrats to act on police reform The 2021 election results...
Charlottesville trial will be a verdict on white supremacy in America
OPINION: What is particularly noteworthy about the civil suit regarding the Unite the Right rally is the federal law it invokes, the Ku Klux Klan...
City receives just one local proposal for Confederate statue, and the organization wants to melt Lee down
Charlottesville's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as it is about to be removed. A few years ago, Jalane Schmidt started hearing a common...
Building now for sale in Court Square
Community Development, Politics
On a hot and hazy afternoon smack dab in the middle of September, Jalane Schmidt stood on a brick sidewalk in Court Square, her gaze cast downward....
A committee of area stakeholders will search for an interim police chief
Community Development, Politics
A police officer watches as protesters take to the streets in Charlottesville. Charlottesville City Manager Chip Boyles has announced the upcoming...
Mayor Nikuyah Walker opens up about her agonizing decision to drop out of the city council race — ‘It’s really taken a toll on me.’
Nikuyah Walker kicked off her 2017 campaign at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker had tears...
Charlottesville Racial Justice Activists Celebrate Confederate Statue Removals
Contributed by Charlottesville Anti-Racist Media Liaisons | Photos by Locs Image (Charlottesville, Va.) — Take ’Em Down Cville, a coalition of...
Mayor Nikuyah Walker Says Reactions to Her Poem Proved Her Point
Contributed by CIM Project partner Charlottesville Tomorrow CHARLOTTE RENE WOODS @charlottewords Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker posted a short...
Blue Skies: Mayor Nikuyah Walker in Her Own Words
Community Development, Politics
With this as the backdrop, we talked for three hours about equity, partnerships, governing style, and much more in a conversation that could have continued all day, if not interrupted by a family emergency. I hope to continue our discussion and present it here at another time. As always Mayor Walker was candid and fearless with her responses and insights. What comes through in our discussion is that she remains a champion of the under-represented as she is willing to force conversations that some deem difficult.
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Former Charlottesville Reporter Jasmine Caldwell Makes History
Former Charlottesville reporter Jasmine Caldwell is among the 3 Black women recently taking the lead as anchors in Texas. Excerpt from Black Enterprise Magazine article by Jeroslyn Johnson On Monday, May 2, KCEN introduced the official anchor lineup for Texas...
CIM Project, Community Development
First Person C-Ville Launches
We are looking for your stories. These can be told from your own personal point of view, or as reported pieces sharing community members’ perspectives. Please keep in mind that we are not seeking pieces that are purely your opinion. This doesn’t mean it can’t...
Community Development, Education, Entertainment
Raised/Razed, a Maupintown Media Production Sets to Premiere at the Heritage Center
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Lorenzo Dickerson and Jordy Yager proudly present Raised/Razed, a documentary film about the life and destruction of Vinegar Hill, one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in Charlottesville, Va. Raised/Razed, a Maupintown Media...
What Did the Black Artists Movement Teach Us?
by Leslie M. Scott-Jones On February second in 1969 the New York Times published an entire page of essays written by luminaries from the Black Artist Movement. Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin, Douglas Turner Ward and Barbara Ann Teer among others wrote about the...
“New Negro” Pop-Up Portrait Exhibition Explores Hidden History
Charlottesville, VA: The Holsinger Portrait Project, a partnership between the University of Virginia and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, will present a pop-up exhibition, The New Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle: Portraits from a...
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