The executive director and CEO of the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA is under fire after more than 100 current and former staff and volunteers made allegations of severe internal dysfunction a...
On January 6, the Virginia Department of Education released a revised proposal of the state’s history and social science standards of learning, after previously proposed standards sparked seve...
Before ditching Charlottesville for California last month, former Police Civilian Oversight Board executive director Hansel Aguilar evaluated the board’s long-awaited first case, which concern...
Early Saturday morning, several hundred people gathered at Monticello to celebrate Juneteenth, including descendants of the over 400 Black people who were enslaved at the plantation during Tho...
It’s been over two years since a local resident threw the Court Square slave
auction marker into the James River, and Charlottesville is slowly—yet
surely—moving toward erecting a new memorial...
For nearly two years, the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail has been hit
hard by the pandemic. While the virus shakes up life outside the jail’s walls,
those incarcerated at ACRJ have re...
From redlining to racial covenants, Charlottesville’s long history of racism and
segregation has created the affordable housing crisis the city now faces. Over
the years, the city’s largest em...
In November, newly appointed Charlottesville City Manager Marc Woolley quit the
job—the day before he was supposed to start work. It was the low point in a
three-year period that had seen five...
Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan a few weeks ago, more than
100,000 Afghans have fled the country, fearing for their lives. Many are
currently going through strict immigration a...
Environmental activists celebrated last summer when Dominion Energy announced it
was canceling the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would have brought natural gas
600 miles from West Virginia to...
In light of the ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism, school districts across the country have cut ties with police—including here in Charlottesville. On June 11, Char...
In light of the ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism,
school districts across the country have cut ties with police—including here in
Charlottesville. On June 11, Char...