Award-winning Canadian author Esi Edugyan’s latest novel, Washington Black, begins in the brutal world of a Barbados...

A few years ago, Molly Conger was just your average Charlottesville resident who, to be honest, didn’t pay much...

Last week, Albemarle County Schools superintendent Matt Haas declared a ban on Confederate, Nazi, and other imagery...

Countless studies have found that parents are less happy than non-parents (who, after all, are free to spend their...

As measles make a comeback in pockets of the United States, a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases in...

In 1986, a young lawyer and UVA grad named Rick Middleton left his job at a national environmental nonprofit in D.C....

A 75th wedding anniversary is so rare that the U.S. Census Bureau keeps no statistics on it, Mary Jane Gore tells us....

February is Black History Month, a time when schools across the country dutifully trot out lessons about Martin...

The tail end of January can be a tough time of year. It’s cold and gray. The rush of holidays is over, with nothing...

“If Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence,” my 7-year-old asked me the other day, “why did he have...