(Audio) “Strange Fruit.” “Fortunate Son.” “What’s Going On.” Protest songs are part of the American story. Guests including Claudrena N. Harold, African American and African studies and history professor, discuss the context of protest songs.
(Subscription required) While a UVA undergraduate, Joshua Anton created an app to prevent users from drunk dialing, which he called Drunk Mode. He later began harvesting huge amounts of user data from smartphones to resell to advertisers. Now his company, called X-Mode Social Inc., is one of a number of little-known location-tracking companies that are being deployed in the effort to reopen the country.
(Subscription required) While a UVA undergraduate, Joshua Anton created an app to prevent users from drunk dialing, which he called Drunk Mode. He later began harvesting huge amounts of user data from smartphones to resell to advertisers. Now his company, called X-Mode Social Inc., is one of a number of little-known location-tracking companies that are being deployed in the effort to reopen the country.
(Subscription required) While a UVA undergraduate, Joshua Anton created an app to prevent users from drunk dialing, which he called Drunk Mode. He later began harvesting huge amounts of user data from smartphones to resell to advertisers. Now his company, called X-Mode Social Inc., is one of a number of little-known location-tracking companies that are being deployed in the effort to reopen the country.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many states are urging residents to vote by mail, and election officials are bracing for a more time-consuming ballot-counting process. However, “If it’s not that close, we may be able to discern the presidential winner even if large shares of the vote are still outstanding in key states,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Employment discrimination and religious liberty questions have come up in recent legislative efforts. The Fairness for All Act, introduced last year in Congress, tried to reconcile nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people with protections for people of faith. Monday’s decision could kill those legislative efforts, UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said.
Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday announced $2.48 million to support 26 small technology-based businesses and four universities in commercializing their research. Locally, Dr. Leon Farhi at the University of Virginia is getting more than $137,000, and Dr. Xi Yang at UVA is getting $150,000.
Students returning to Grounds in the fall is good news for businesses in the area. Most have been struggling and are happy sales will increase.
The University of Virginia will change recently updated logos used in athletic competition to remove design aspects that refer to objects on campus associated with the school’s history of using slave labor, the school announced in a statement.
In this clip from Bill Moyers’ 2012 interview with former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, they talk about Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen. Dove reads Cullen’s poem “Incident,” which is, as Dove says, “a heart-wrenching poem about how prejudice and racial hatred can impact someone at a young age.”
(Commentary by Qian Cai, research director of the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service) I am a demographer working with local governments, businesses and nonprofits, and a combination of factors makes me deeply concerned about how accurate census data will be when it’s released in 2021.
The University of Virginia announced Monday it was altering logos introduced in April to remove references to the school’s history of slavery. The new logos included tweaks to the Cavaliers’ well-known image of crossed sabres, with the school saying in April that the handles of the swords were redesigned to “mimic the serpentine walls” on its grounds in Charlottesville. As some then pointed out, those walls were designed by University founder Thomas Jefferson to hide the sight of and mute the sounds of slaves made to carry out a variety of tasks at the school.
(Commentary co-written by Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor) Recent analyses show that distance learning went poorly; most students will be far behind where they should be this fall. That’s not just because teachers had to throw together lessons on the fly; kids didn’t do their part.
(Commentary by Raymond Scheppach, professor of public policy) Many public employee pension plans run by states don’t have enough money in them to make upcoming pension payments to retired state workers.
Teens who feel their parents are overly controlling may have more difficulty with romantic relationships as adults, a new UVA study suggests.
For Richmond attorney Jackie Stone, seeing the historical marker on Main Street honoring Oliver Hill Sr. serves as a reminder not just of the late civil rights attorney’s legal legacy, but of the path he helped blaze for African Americans in the legal community. So when the marker was vandalized with crude language during this past weekend’s protests, Stone decided to act. “He was such a very special man,” said Stone, a graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School. “To be able to do what we could do to honor and preserve his legacy, that’s something that meant a lot to me.”
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said he thinks Good is a risky candidate for the district given its demographic makeup: It’s one of the largest congressional districts in the country, spanning from the Washington, D.C., suburbs to the northern border of North Carolina, and it encompasses many different political views.
On Saturday, Kyle Kondik, managing editor for “Crystal Ball” at the University of Virginia's Center of Politics
Ebony Hilton Buchholz, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Virginia, said she expects a similar spike attributed to Memorial Day festivities to happen two weeks following the Floyd protests. But she said that if the protests presented a risk, racism too is a public health threat. “The same determinants that lead to worse health outcomes are the same determinants that lead to an increase in what we see with police brutality,” said Hilton Bucholz. ”If you look at the intersectionality of pandemic and protest, they share the same vein. It’s the same disease.”
With a new state law concerning public statues about to take effect, Albemarle County officials are hoping residents will chime in through an online survey and virtual meetings on how the Court Square grounds in downtown Charlottesville should look. The county has planned a virtual discussion at 6:30 p.m. June 29 on how to present multiple stories in a public setting. The meeting will be led by Sara Bon-Harper, executive director of James Monroe’s Highland; Louis Nelson of the University of Virginia; and Jennifer Stacy, a member of Highland’s Descendant Advisory Panel. Court Square will the to...