First Person Charlottesville
Let’s tell the story of our community together. Here’s how you can share your perspective with Charlottesville Tomorrow, Vinegar Hill Magazine and In My Humble Opinion.
A place where the dream of equality lived in Albemarle County
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his journey to reclaim the history of his ancestors’ home. Read more at Charlottesville Tomorrow.
To Trump, the Federal Executive Institute was ‘serving the Federal bureaucracy.’ Here’s what it was to someone who helped run it
Charley Burton oversaw janitorial and custodial services at the FEI, and tried to take care of his team when it was shut down.
If federal funding for science is cut, we won’t just be losing the research
Jessica B. Hamrick is a Virginia success story for her career in science. That career, she writes, wouldn’t have been possible without federal funding for science. Read more at Charlottesville Tomorrow.
Returning to the Water: A Journey Back to Myself in Ghana
Tracey Howard-Gough writes, “In December 2024, I returned to Africa — but this time, I wasn’t just a traveler. I co-led the first Black-led delegation through the Charlottesville/Winneba Foundation, ensuring that our voices, our perspectives, and our experiences were centered in the journey home. To guide others in fully immersing
What’s changing in the federal government matters — how it impacts you matters even more
Charlottesville Inclusive Media is calling on community members to participate in a program to help us all understand what it means to live in the Trump administration.
“You’re One of Us Now”: Buying My First Gun & Becoming “American”
Darnell Lamont Walker writes, “Buying my first gun felt like a collision of identity, fear, and history. Guns had always been distant, abstract symbols of something that didn’t belong to me, but rather to others — their way of navigating the world, not mine.”
Her downtown art exhibit was vandalized. Here’s why she’s keeping the damage
Photographer Kori Price says that we, as a society, are capable of healing while acknowledging harms of the past and present.
How one family owned and ran the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — for generations
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his family’s land, and the remarkable ancestors who were determined that their legacy would be equality.
Learn more about the Albemarle County farm at Buck Island with Philip Cobbs
Cobbs will present his work to uncover his family’s history on April 23 at the Northside Library on Rio Road.
It was once his family’s farm — the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — but now we all own part of it
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his birthplace, and why we should all know its history.
