A.E. Dick Howard received the Gerald L. Baliles Distinguished Service Award for exceptional service and contribution to the bar and public.
Horace Scruggs III will present on research and documentary films he’s created about enslaved ancestors in Fluvanna and surrounding areas.
A white church with green trim has sat on the corner of 10th Street and Grady Avenue in Charlottesville since 1939. In the 84 years that have passed since it was erected there, the church has served as a community center for one of the city’s few remaining historically Black neighborhoods, a…
"We've never been the same since the '60s ... Everybody agrees on that. They disagree on whether that's good, bad or indifferent."
The president of the foundation dedicated to preserving Monticello and the legacy of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is resigning.
A forum will be held later this month to discuss the names of Burnley-Moran Elementary School and Johnson Elementary School.
While the debate over the fate of Charlottesville’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee raged on in Charlottesville Circuit Court Monday, at least one argument was laid to rest.
The conversation was led by a former director of the cybersecurity security agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration.
"I showed up at practically everything that happened in Charlottesville back in those days," Roseberry said in an interview several years ago.
In the early 20th century, the most common employment options for Black men and women involved demanding domestic work and exhausting physical labor for low wages but portraits do not portray that struggle.
The Holsinger Collection features distinguished photographs taken by well-known Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger and includes 611 portraits of Black subjects.
Enemy of 1776 became an ally and a friend.
Larry Spencer was 20 in August of 1969, when when the remnants of Hurricane Camille tore through Nelson County, taking at least 114 lives with it. Another 37 remain missing.
The historical society is creating a database with the information they’ve uncovered about enslaved people in the area so descendants can make connections. The goal is to allow descendants’ voices to guide the process for creating some kind of memorial for the site.
“It's important that the people who were here, who have the lived experience, who are impacted by it are the ones that speak to the truth of what took place here,” said Elizabeth Shillue.
"We have to tell them in their innocence. Far too often we see that Black people are guilty before even going to court.”
In the 1960s, a University of Virginia professor was ousted following efforts to integrate Charlottesville’s racially segregated barber shops.
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The date that lives in infamy: December 7, 1941. It was the brilliant, surprise attack by naval air forces of the Empire of Japan on the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet and military installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The tragic event brought the United States into World War II. Ultimately, the…
While the land is known now for its golf course and tennis courts, Tom Chapman, executive director of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, says the park's 280 acres tell a lot about local history.
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Should Gov. Andrew Cuomo resign or be impeached, Hamburg's Kathy Hochul would become the 57th governor of New York and, as frequently mentioned, the first woman.
The remains of Albemarle County native Elwood Montague Truslow were found in boxes turned over by North Korea in 2018.
The remains of Albemarle County native Elwood Montague Truslow were found in boxes turned over by North Korea in 2018.
“Most of the property owners are local and have owned their properties for a long time and they are aware of the history.”
A lot of the discussion with descendants has been about how to effectively reach out to the community to gather public input about the memorial.
Request for information seeks an individual or organization interested in the 1919 statue who can safely remove it and take ownership of it
Youngest member of the family that started the City Market died Feb. 2.