In the immediate weeks after the violence on August 12, 2017, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics discovered that the most people in the U.S. oppose white supremacists. The poll revealed that 89% of respondents believed "all races should be treated equally," and 70% “strongly agreed” that people of different races should be allowed to live wherever they choose. Both of those beliefs reject the core principles of the ideology on display in Charlottesville.
(Editorial) A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted this month in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center and released earlier this week also lends credence to the belief that racial attitudes have not improved over the past 12 months. It concluded that a 57-percent majority of Americans believe that race relations in the United States have worsened over the past 18 months of the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Thirty-nine percent say they’ve become “a lot worse.”
Includes reflections by UVA faculty members Siva Vaidhyanathan, Larry Sabato and Nicole Hemmer.
This month, a group of UVA faculty compiled a book of essays, “Charlottesville 2017,” published by the University of Virginia Press. Claudrena Harold, a professor of African-American and African studies and history, co-edited the volume. She spoke to The Chronicle about how the campus has felt different since white supremacists descended upon it — and how it remains very much the same.
A planned student protest at the University of Virginia quickly turned into a rolling rally that traversed the Grounds, part of Charlottesville and wound up at Market Street Park with minor skirmishes between marchers and police along the way.
The president of the University of Virginia offered the first apology from that office for the tiki-torch march that injured UVA students and supporters one year ago Saturday. “I am sorry,” he said, simply. Jim Ryan’s statement came amid an event intended to commemorate that anniversary and offer healing to a university that is still wrestling to recognize First Amendment issues and involvement with slavery and racism.
To mark the one-year anniversary of this tragedy, CNN Opinion reached out to a diverse group of residents and people directly affected by the events of August 11 and 12, 2017. Here, in their own words, women and men of many backgrounds, faiths, and ages – including several from the UVA community – answer the question: What were you doing on August 11 and 12, 2017 and what have you done since? Where do you think America stands when it comes to issues of race and justice?
Members of the University of Virginia and the Charlottesville community gathered Saturday morning for “The Hope that Summons Us: A Morning of Reflection and Renewal” at the Old Cabell Hall Auditorium. The event served as an opportunity to reflect on last year's violent demonstrations on the Lawn and to discuss how to move forward.
UVA’s Darden School of Business and Virginia Community Capital, along with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, have joined forces to offer the Resilience Award to companies in Virginia that are beating the odds in economically challenged communities.
The varied speakers at the NAACP forum – including state officials, candidates, the president of the University of Virginia, academics, activists and faith leaders – spent the bulk of their speeches on what needs to change if Charlottesville is to achieve racial equality.
Porter Wilkinson Wall, who clerked for Kavanaugh in 2007 and 2008, recalled how impressed she was that he spent so much time determining cases. “When I went to chambers as his young law clerk I was just struck by how humble he was in approaching his job. In law school, you study judicial opinions,” said Wall, a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, who is now working in private practice in Washington, D.C. “You read case after case after case and analyze and study them. So you come away with the impression that judges know all the answers and that their opinions are just impart...
For the second time in less than three weeks, a political handicapper has shifted its rating on the 17th Congressional District race to “leans Democratic,” giving more momentum to Democratic U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb’s campaign to oust Republican U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus. UVA political science professor Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter unveiled its latest rating on the race Wednesday. Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik on Thursday cited that poll and the 17th District’s weaker support for President Donald Trump in 2016 than the 18th District, where Lamb squeaked out a win against Saccone...
President Trump's endorsements at times have gone against state and local party leadership. According to Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Prime examples of this are playing out in gubernatorial races in Kansas and Florida. “You have a situation where the president is coming in to endorse someone like Chris Kobach in Kansas or Ron DeSantis in Florida -- those are not necessarily the candidates that I think establishment Republicans would want in those races," Kondik said.
“Ivanka Trump is trotted out when this administration wants to sound moderate. Few anti-Trump voters will be fooled,” Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said. “Poll after poll has shown Trump is poison with female college educated voters. It’s been obvious for quite some time.”
“I think there is something of a joke that lieutenant governors just wait around and see if something happens to the governor, in which case they would become governor,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
The Democrats were less adept at rounding up credit for economic improvements and shaking off criticisms. “Part of Obama’s problem, especially in the last year, was that he was too understated,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In every instance, he downplayed it. It was ‘Just the facts, ma’am.’ That doesn’t work anymore.”
“With high-deductible plans on the rise, many patients are required to pay more for their medications before they meet their deductible,” said Melissa Paige, Pharmacy Patient Medication Access Principal Coordinator at University of Virginia Health System, one of the survey collaborators. “Patients also have limited visibility into the cost of their prescription prior to leaving the provider's office, and as a result, are more likely to abandon their prescription at the pharmacy.”
Virginia lawmakers are expected to fill an open seat this month on a state board that could determine whether the state becomes a regional leader on renewable energy, energy efficiency and grid modernization. “The State Corporation Commission is where the rubber meets the road,” says Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the University of Virginia.
“If I were the folks thinking about participating [In the Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington], I could be quite worried that my participation could link me to violent activity that violates civil rights,” says Richard Schragger, who specializes in Constitutional and local government law at the University of Virginia School of Law. “Even if you’re exercising your First Amendment rights, you’re responsible for the outcomes.”
Residents of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Beach, predominately black neighborhoods popularly known as SANS, cheered when they learned on Saturday that their communities are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Julian Adams of the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, in the audience at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater for a talk by Andrew W. Kahrl, an assistant professor of history and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia, made the announcement. … To some extent, Mr. Kahrl, who is white, could be said t...