A month ago, around 100 locals set off on two buses to Montgomery, Alabama, carrying soil from the site where John...

About 50 people gathered in the woods beside the train tracks running west of Charlottesville early July 7. The...

It’s a humid but not hot Saturday evening in early May. Jazz floats through the auditorium of the Jefferson School...

As big a role as history plays in Charlottesville’s identity, some events, like an 1898 lynching, were pretty much...

The lynching of John Henry James in Albemarle in 1898 for allegedly assaulting a white woman was both horrific—and...

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

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

It’s the time of year C-VILLE editorial staffers dread most: landing on the final names for our Power Issue, followed...

When Charlottesville decided to keep the historic Jefferson School and its prime real estate as a community center...

A forthcoming addition to the Downtown Mall will commemorate Vinegar Hill, the historically African-American...