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Meltdown

Swords into Plowshares melts down controversial Lee statue

‘We’re still going’

Jefferson School provides update on Lee statue

Molten bronze

Jeff School hosts first community session on statue transformation

In brief

Running for repair On March 3, 1865, Union army troops arrived in Charlottesville, liberating over 14,000 enslaved...

Limited choices

New book sheds light on local Black domestic worker

In brief

Lee will melt Charlottesville’s statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is about to take even more heat. At the...

In brief

Map moves ahead   The process of rewriting Charlottesville’s Comprehensive plan—and, subsequently, reevaluating the...

An abstract discourse

With history behind it, ‘Charlottesville Collects African American Art’ breaks norms

PICK: Lola Flash

Action shots: Photographer Lola Flash’s art and activism are inextricably connected. For decades her work in...

Telling the truth

As protests against police brutality continue around the country, school districts are tackling another form of...