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Filling the spaces

Renowned activists discuss reimagining sites where Confederate statues stood

Grappling with the past

By Ben Hitchcock “I feel like I’ve been training for this one job for 30 years,” said Coy Barefoot when he took over...

The jury is out

Five current and former city councilors can breathe a little easier now that a judge has ruled they aren’t personally...

Monument motions

It was the same old, same old in Charlottesville Circuit Court on March 13, when attorneys involved in a lawsuit to...

Beyond the statues

By Jonathan Haynes City Councilor Wes Bellamy sat down for a revelatory interview at the Jefferson School African...

In brief

Goodbye, Robert E. Lee The statue remains in the former Lee Park, but the park’s name has changed—twice—in the past...

But their emails!...

  In a lawsuit aimed at keeping the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in...

Confederates convicted

Immediately following a March 26 trial in which Charlottesville’s Brian Lambert was found guilty of multiple charges...

Clean slate

  “Wes is a jackass” became a familiar slogan to those living in Charlottesville last summer, as it was scrawled on a...

Both Richmond and...

By Alexa Nash Richmond, Virginia, was once the powerhouse of the South as the largest capital of the Confederate...