Volunteer group hopes to educate and undo Charlottesvilleâs historical redlining Charlottesville City Hall (FILE) (Source: WVIR) By NBC29 Newsroom | April 30, 2021 at 4:35 PM EDT - Updated April 30 at 4:35 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The lines that marked discrimination are clearly drawn on old maps of Charlottesville. Researchers are using them to open peopleâs eyes about a shameful part of our history.
The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is focusing on a decades-old problem that kept people of color from living in white neighborhoods around Charlottesville and into Albemarle County.
âRedlining was created by the federal government coming out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and 40s,â Mapping Cville Director Jordy Yager said.
Mayor compares her city to a rapist. She explains why
By The Washington Post
Richmond - Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker was having a long and frustrating day.
She has lots of them, like plenty of mayors, even though hers is a wealthy, picturesque college town that regularly pops up on those best places lists. Nothing in particular set her off, but the battles she had been mired in for months - with the City Council, the city staff, some ordinary Charlottesvillians - were getting to her.
So the mayor consoled herself by writing a poem - one that soon had parts of C ville recoiling.
Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker says graphic poem illustrates Black experience in city washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The project plots every deed that contains a racist covenant or a clause forbidding the sale of property to Black individuals and those not of white descent.