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PICK: Thirty-Seven

Staying active: As a part of the Charlottesville Player’s Guild’s Amplify season, Leslie M. Scott-Jones’ play...

In brief

Turkey time Community is hard to come by these days, especially as we’re all hunkering down for a long winter indoors...

Celebrating Juneteenth

Since press time, Governor Ralph Northam has proposed legislation to make Juneteenth a paid state holiday. If it...

Scattered history

The city of Charlottesville wasn’t incorporated until 1888, but people are recorded as living in the region as far...

‘The heartbeat of racism is de

The work of antiracism is “fundamentally focused on looking in the mirror” with the goal of transforming society,...

Distressed

By Ben Hitchcock The roof of the front porch is missing, leaving exposed wood visible from the road. A notice from...

View finder

An all-black town. An all-black town? It was a stray mention in a book on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, but Jamelle...

Stages of life

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

Fundraising shortfall

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

Not black and white

In its first listening session July 28, the City Council-appointed Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces...