Acting looks a bit different for Will Jones this summer. Instead of being onstage with the Charlottesville Players...

A few years ago, Leslie Scott-Jones was wandering around the Aquarian Bookshop on West Main Street in Richmond,...

  As we adjust to life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll likely turn to the arts—a favorite poem, a beloved album, a...

Let’s pretend for a minute. It’s sometime in the not-too-distant future. Charlottesville is a thriving black kingdom,...

Ring true: Boxer Jack Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight champion, and at the height of the...

When Nina Simone died in 2003, Elton John sent flowers with the message, “You were the greatest and I love you.” That...

When the student-run UVA Studio Arts Board asked New York artist Ed Woodham to bring his Art in Odd Places to the...

She’d been here before. During a recent rehearsal of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a feeling of...

The next time you use the Water Street and Second Street crosswalk, look in the Live Arts window. There’s a light on...

Lights go up on the wood-paneled stage in the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center auditorium to reveal...