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Journey begins

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

Confronting a shameful past

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

‘Complicit’

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