James Alex Fields, Jr., the 20-year-old Ohio man who allegedly killed one and injured 19 by plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville Saturday, was denied bail when seen by a judge earlier today. BBC reports that Fields has been charged...
RVA Mag First Look: Unite the Right in Charlottesville
In what is normally such a slow and sleepy town, the city of Charlottesville felt as though it was in a stand-still the past two days, ultimately ending in mass injuries and at least one death after a vehicle rammed into counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally...
Opinion: The Real Threat is Unite the Right
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally in Charlottesville last month was a properly audacious event. The terrorist organization, once confined to the shadows of clandestine gatherings, felt emboldened to reveal themselves publicly. This should come as no real surprise. We live...
The need for anti-fascism in Virginia
Now that Charlottesville is about to have its third white supremacy rally this summer, there has never been a time when anti-fascism is more necessary in Virginia. My most direct experience with this kind of organizing comes from my time with Occupy Wall Street in New...
VMFA Fellow Elizabeth Flood and the observational world of the painters pencil
It’s no secret that paying for graduate school takes a lot of money, which is why Elizabeth Flood applied to be a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) fellow. Flood, an artist from Charlottesville, was accepted as one of four artists to receive the prestigious award...
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