This is Teacher Appreciation Week, and Virginia Commonwealth University says a number of its graduates deserve special thanks. They serve in the state’s
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UMW s Christopher Williams led the campaign to officially mark the Freedom Rides first stop in Fredericksburg
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Chris Williams is with the Multi-Cultural Center at the University of Mary Washington. It’s named for James Farmer –an organizer of the Freedom Rides and a mentor to Williams, who met him in 1996.
“He had lost his eyesight to diabetes, and he was using a wheelchair primarily to get around, Williams recalls, but it was his voice and his spirit that really captured my attention when I first met him. I was really in awe.”
The Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C. and stopped first at the Greyhound bus station in Fredericksburg, which – in defiance of a supreme court ruling – was still segregated.
Last night the University of Virginia launched a program designed to produce one thousand to 15-hundred affordable housing units over the next decade in
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On July 24th, a French horn will solo in the Quarry Gardens of Schuyler. Also on the program, an accordion, percussion and two singers from the Metropolitan Opera who are known for their ability to project.
“We do not like to use microphones in our work,” says Brenda Patterson, co-founder of Charlottesville’s Victory Hall Opera. During the pandemic the company was confined to performances online, but now it returns with a live, outdoor show using the quarry’s rock walls to naturally amplify sound.
“We believe that the power of the live operatic voice, just acoustically produced from the singer’s body, is actually the point of opera,” Patterson explains.
Faculty members at the University of Richmond are holding a vote today on whether they have confidence in the school’s rector. He and other members of the