From its headline to its content this “article’s” contrived and salacious agenda oozes onto its floorboards. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

"No climbing" signs have been up for a while now, and yet kids are still running on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Makes me sad, mad, and frustrated.

Nikuyah Walker, former mayor of Charlottesville, has endorsed me for the Charlottesville School Board.

“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”

They say Charlottesville is the Paris of the South…

LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit

Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down. What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

Well, damn.

Well, damn.

7 things every child needs to hear? #parenting #family #ideology

As part of the 75th Anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's successful case to desegregate the University of Virginia, I created a Storymap. We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today. arcg.is/1T8aC85

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth. Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.

Kara Walker has long been one of my favorite living artists. She’s brilliant. “Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

I spent my childhood (sometimes literally) in the shadow of this Stonewall Jackson monument. Kara Walker has a wonderful facility for marrying complex ideas and simple truths, in addition to producing aesthetically excellent work. This is a triumph. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

The mission of the Center for Local Knowledge (CLK) at @jsaahccville.bsky.social is rooted in reparative and spatial justice. The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.

“Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? You’re doing it RIGHT NOW!”

Screening Raised/Razed to a group of Government officials from Roanoke, Amherst, Warren, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Shenandoah, Prince George, Staunton, Colonial Beach, Vienna, VA + Ennis, TX, Riverside, MO, Westminster, CO, Gaithersburg, MD + Onslow, Gastonia, and Nags Head, NC.

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together. Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act. bookriot.com/we-can-still...

The UVA Board of Visitors has quite a history. (Below is far from the only grim example.) The current board, which schemed with the Trump regime to oust the university's president, is honoring it.

Persuade me otherwise, but I don’t think every public utterance needs to be archived or posted on the internet. Indeed, at some moments, perhaps this one included, it can actually be risky. Mentioned this to a colleague, who sent this helpful article about security in social movement culture.

Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him. It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black. Swanson took them to court, and won.

I wonder if anyone's studied the first 30 years of UVA graduates (1829-1859) to see where they went & what they did—TJ designed the school to teach, espouse, and spread very specific ideas and ideals, so what did the first three decades of that look like exactly—collectively, in total?

“There are no good or bad guys, that's the part we're all struggling with.” -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social moneywithkatie.com/status-power...

One day maybe we'll see the connection between our political and ethical values, and where we spend our money? Maybe?

The kids at the cav daily are doing very, very good work. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

So many powerful comrades, organizers and scholars working in the Black radical traditions were in the building at socialism 2025 . Become a Hammer and Hope member today and support our work!

1/ Over the past several days, my better half and I have been talking about what a new UVA could mean for Charlottesville, the city that raised us and that we know so well.

I’ve used this exact analogy lol What are we even doing??!

This is what the 157-unit building for UVA student housing that LCD Acquisitions LLC is proposing looks like. Situated between two major generational Black spaces—the historic First Baptist Church to the north, and Castle Hill - Fifeville to the south.

1. Today is the 10th Anniversary of the Mother Emmanuel Massacre that occurred on June 17, 2015, after a young white man named Dylann Roof attended to prayer meeting at the historically Black church and killed 9 persons while injuring 1 other.

Thank you. It's really wonderful. What a shared human experience to want to capture a moment and to be in it and to know it is fleeting. "I want to keep this. I want to keep this feeling. I want to keep that. I don't want to lose that." "I just sacrificed stuff and what's left is love."

My friend Brian Morrow lost his house in the Eaton Fire in Altadena. He was able to save 92 things, everything else burned, leaving him in "a rare beautiful place." A filmmaker, Brian set out to process the tragedy & trauma of what happened. He made a short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi_e...

Virginia Humanities' executive director said h received a “missive” on April 3 at 12:51 a.m. stating that their general operating support grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities was terminated. It's almost 20% of their budget. www.cvilletomorrow.org/virginia-hum...

“Without it, public history projects will be forced to fight harder for support. We’ll lose essential opportunities for communities to tell their own stories, and for us to deepen our understanding with the goal to reflect, reckon, and repair." www.cvilletomorrow.org/virginia-hum...

“Education and justice are democracy’s only life insurance.” —Nannie Helen Burroughs

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

For them in the back: “…in their personality preferred style and also for free and happily because they pay you attention.” And. Whew.

Trump is reportedly targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture for possible removal. “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project.

Anyone who knows that we have to understand the past to make sense of the present will want to read Jordy's newsletter. African American history, urban history, the history of property & real estate, the history of zoning & racial covenants... All of this matters right now. Today.

I just started a newsletter on Substack. I'm calling it: "History is Present" It's about how we see the world, land, time, all the good things. First though, an update: jordyyager.substack.com/p/life-updat...

I think we'd do well to remember that between 2000-2018 in Charlottesville, White homeownership grew by 20% while Black homeownership declined by 24% www.justice4all.org/wp-content/u...

We were joined by @jordyyager on Sweat the Details; there is so much to learn about our history, and how race and land-use are intertwined. https://overcast.fm/+Qdsn8aGTM

In my attempt to reform my social media ways, no, I will not complain to you about the use of the word “resilient” to describe historical and cultural realities. I won’t do it.

Kindlewood residents are designing the new public park at the center of their neighborhood. Today they hear presentations from Prof. Barbara Brown Wilson's students looking at examples from around the U.S. of how art can be used as culturally responsive design elements in public spaces.

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“At SIP's heart is a community conversation guided by research, public education & reflection—in a place where our nation’s ideals of freedom were developed, despite being rooted in a lucrative system of enslavement whose lasting ramifications shape society today.” hyperallergic.com/990094/charl...