Hawes Spencer

The indelible images of last August in Charlottesville include torches, Nazi regalia, and street brawls. But perhaps none is seared so deeply into memory as that of a grey Dodge Challenger hurtling toward a crowd of pedestrians. For some survivors, however, there's much more than memory. There are lingering physical as well as emotional wounds, but an ongoing interest in opposing bigotry. For Virginia Currents, Hawes Spencer has more.

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In preparation for this weekend's one-year anniversary of the deadly white nationalist rally, the City of Charlottesville plans to barricade downtown streets and close parks--even a kids's spray pool a mile from downtown.

In his first key pronouncement, incoming University of Virginia President James E. Ryan endorsed a controversial appointment to a university think tank despite two resignations in protest.

The appointment of a former Trump administration official, is causing waves at the University of Virginia. Two scholars at the Miller Center, a University think tank, resigned Tuesday to protest a fellowship for former White House legislative director Marc Short. History professor Melvyn Leffler calls Short a partisan activist serving a president who violates norms of human rights and civil discourse. And so Leffler and another professor drew up a letter resigning from the Miller Center.