In less than a week, the University of Virginia's campus served as a public forum for two very contrasting causes -- one fueled by anger, another by the desire to heal.
Thousands of people gathered on the University of Virginia campus here Wednesday night in the glow of candlelight, striking a peaceful contrast to the torches wielded by white supremacists on Friday.
Tony Bennett issues heartfelt video regarding Charlottesville tragedy.
After the Civil War, Lee resisted efforts to build Confederate monuments in his honor and instead wanted the nation to move on from the Civil War. After his death, Southerners adopted "The Lost Cause" revisionist narrative about the Civil War and placed Lee as its central figure. As The Lost Cause narrative grew in popularity, proponents pushed to memorialize Lee, ignoring his deficiencies as a general and his role as a slave owner, according to Gary Gallagher, a University of Virginia professor specializing in the history of the Civil War. Lee monuments went up in the 1920s just as the Ku Klu...
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan sent a letter to the UVA community on Tuesday regarding the school's reaction to and preparedness for events like the march on Friday. In her statement, she says there have been important questions raised about UVA's ability to ensure a safe learning environment.
Established by one of our country’s founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia is the very embodiment of “collegiate.”
The team posed for a picture on the steps of the Rotunda on UVA’s Grounds. The tweet sent out by the official Twitter account for the football program said, “Our school, our city, our home. United forever.”
As the political and emotional shockwaves from the weekend violence continued to roil the nation outside, Heyer’s family and friends filled the front rows, rising by turns to greive and to galvanize.
Charlottesville may be 300 miles up the road but the University of Virginia's presence hits home in Wise County everyday. So as the nation watched violence unfold in the city and on campus there this weekend, many people in Wise County were particulary touched because of their connections. Statements came from Chancellor Donna Henry at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, the only branch of the university in Charlottesville. UVA-Wise's Student Government Association issued a statement of solidarity with its counterparts five hours away. Reactions came from UVA alumni and current stude...
The nation and American democracy has progressed despite hateful bigotry for more than two centuries, and “hateful actions in Charlottesville or elsewhere will not stop it either,” said Dr. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia (UVA). Sabato and other UVA faculty members and administrators condemned the violent protests started by hundreds of White nationalists as they gathered on the university’s grounds and in downtown Charlottesville over the weekend. The school also issued statements citing their commitment to inclusion and diversity.
(By Atima Omara, UVA graduate) Even in these politically dark times, we have to remember that there are victories to be won and reasons to keep fighting.
University of Virginia Medical Center staff spent weeks preparing for the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally, and that work paid off when the chaos gave way to tragedy after a 20-year-old man plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
The memorial is expected to get underway at 11 a.m., and seating will be available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Following the Unite the Right rally and violence in Charlottesville on Saturday, a group of UVA graduates sent a letter to the community expressing horror and hope. In the letter, the alumni say Charlottesville will always be home to them.
Horrifying images have emerged of the injuries suffered by a Houston woman after she was one of several plowed into by a car at a white nationalist rally on Saturday. Natalie Romero, 20, from Texas, is currently recovering in a hospital in Virginia. She suffered a small skull fracture and multiple injuries to her face. Romero, a University of Virginia sophomore, was a counter-protester against the supremacist groups marching in Charlottesville against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee.
This essay was written by a UVA law student who decided to counterprotest on Friday when members of Unite the Right stormed the campus. She shared it in the Pantsuit Nation Facebook group with the hope of calling allies to arms to join Saturday's protest.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia, where the white extremists marched with their lit torches, is the home of James Davison Hunter, the sociologist who helped define the contemporary American culture war. In 1992 – as the American presidential election was rocked by the debate over a TV character’s single motherhood in “Murphy Brown” – Hunter reminded us that these cultural skirmishes aren’t just rhetoric or “political froth.”
“The bottom line is if it weren’t for a bunch of neo-Nazis marching around it would have been a regular peaceful day in Charlottesville,” said Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Whether he likes it or not, the president, the person that holds that office, is supposed to act as the person setting a moral standard for the country, and I think he’s been falling far short in that regard.”
In televised remarks on Saturday, Trump condemned the violence in Charlottesville “on many sides,” but did not directly address the behavior of white supremacist groups drawn to the rally. The White House clarified his remarks on Sunday to include “white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups.” But the president’s campaign organization also announced a new television advertisement on Sunday morning that trumpeted the administration’s achievements and scorned Democrats and the news media for attacking him. The timing of the announcement so soon after the violence in Charlottesvill...
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, lamented that in his 47 years with the college, he had never been so sickened as when torch-bearing white nationalists gathered Friday on the grassy courtyard known as the Lawn, many chanting the Nazi slogan "Blood and soil." "We need an exorcism on the Lawn," Sabato tweeted.