We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.
Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.
Some people didn't think we'd ever get to this moment, but in 10 days Charlottesville will have to wrestle with the question: What should the melted bronze of the Robert E. Lee statue become—and where should it live?
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In 2020 we sat down with Mayor Nikuyah Walker to talk about where Liberation & Freedom Day came from and why it was important:
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Just heard Tracy K. Smith say, and now I can’t stop thinking about:
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Charlottesville’s Black political life has always been a steady current: sometimes visible, sometimes forced underground, always moving...
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100 people have RSVP'd so far.
This Saturday, 2-3pm — Charlottesville Middle School.
"What would it be like to live here if workers had a say in how the university treats our city?"
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A poster with a photo of people holding up banners reading “SOLIDARITY FOREVER” and “RESTORE RIGHTS.” Text below the photo: CHARLOTTESVILLE'S A UNION TOWN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR ALL TOWN HALL & COMMUNITY PANEL Whether you're a UVA worker, student, or Charlottesville resident, come learn how you can use collective bargaining to get more of a say in UVA's impact on your life and raise the standards for all of us!- SATURDAY, February 21, 2-3:30pm Charlottesville Middle School Cafeteria 1000 Cherry Ave Child Care & Refreshments Provided (A QR code is displayed at the bottom of the poster for RSVP.)
UVA Professor Ian Mullins is organizing a Town Hall this Saturday (2/21) to discuss the Collective Bargaining Bills currently being worked on in the House & Senate. It promises to be a highly informative event!
This year marks 100 years since the doors first opened at Jefferson High School.
For a whole year, the City is helping @jsaahccville.bsky.social turn West Main St. into an open-air tribute.
So next time you're walking down West Main, take a moment and look up.
The statue is gone, and what comes next is up to you. From March 14 - May 30, @jsaahccville.bsky.social invites you to help shape the future of the Lee statue's melted bronze as we consider proposals from MASS Design Group, PUSH Studio, and Hood Design Studio.
www.eventbrite.com/e/swords-int...
The statue is gone, and what comes next is up to you. From March 14 - May 30, @jsaahccville.bsky.social invites you to help shape the future of the Lee statue's melted bronze as we consider proposals from MASS Design Group, PUSH Studio, and Hood Design Studio.
www.eventbrite.com/e/swords-int...
“Power is disputed between people who deserve it and people who adore it. It’s a perpetual fight.”
"...This doesn’t mean abandoning political struggles or dismissing the importance of securing immediate material needs; it means approaching action with a humility that recognizes its limits and a responsibility that embraces its entangled consequences.”
"An invitation to inhabit the discomfort of recognizing that no solutions is pure, no path is free of complicity, and no perspective holds the full picture...
Three years ago, JSAAHC created Picture Me As I Am, an interactive Storymap that traces place, power, and memory—and what still shapes our lives today.
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What great good fortune it is to receive a generous gift of someone(s) else’s strenuous labors. Who dug the 🚘 out & cleared the cobblestone path, then sprinkled salt all around? No note taped to the 🚪,no bill, no text; just utter kindness served w/o a mumbling word, expecting nothing in return. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
4/ "We are at an inflection point. And in the year leading up to America’s 250th anniversary, we must decide: What kind of America do we want to live in and forge for generations to come?"
3/ "From the early resistance of First Nations to abolitionism, from the civil rights movement to Stonewall, we can trace the ripples of demands for recognition & fundamental freedoms, and how those demands have shaped and expanded the rights promised to every American."
2/ "On one hand, there is the indisputable truth that—from even before the founding of our nation—when Black people get free, when Native people get free, we all get free..."
