by Jack Moline | Aug 7, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A few years ago, my friend Peter Maer called me with a request. Peter had a very successful career as a journalist for CBS Radio and he knows an important story when he hears it. He had gotten to know the guy he hired to do some work on his house in Northern Virginia....
by Angela Grant | May 19, 2022 | News
History is the version of events that is written down after careful consideration, while memory is a collection of feelings and mental images which, though not recorded, might still be worthy of reflection. This raises a question: What is a statue that is based on an...
by Michael Cheuk | Jul 30, 2020 | Opinion
Charlottesville, Virginia, was buzzing in 2017 with talk about the possibility of removing Confederate monuments in the city. At first, I was ambivalent. On the one hand, I had no interest in valorizing Confederate heroes like Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall”...
by Michael Cheuk | Aug 1, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Hundreds of tiki torch-carrying, Nazi flag-waving, KKK-sympathizing white nationalists/supremacists terrorized University of Virginia students and the city of Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12, 2017, capturing the world’s attention. In the days and weeks afterward, many...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 11, 2018 | Opinion
The Charlottesville Clergy Collective (CCC) made an important decision during the summer of 2017; it would not allow the conflict that engulfed its city to define the future. When white supremacists descended on Charlottesville on Aug. 12 of that year, blatant racism...