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Pilgrims’ report

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

Day 5 #CvillePilgrimage

Next to nothing is known about John Henry James—not his age, his family nor his occupation. All that is certain is...

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...