UCARE - University and Community Action for Racial Equity

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Take 'Em Down Cville Take ’Em Down Cville is a collective of Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents who believe that the statues honoring the Confederate Lost Cause are monuments to the cause of white supremacy and have no place in our community’s public spaces.

this going on - an incomplete story about a needed self-examination:

Curry School Launches Website Detailing Lives of School, Building Namesakes The new website is part of the school’s effort to explore the lives of its namesake and that of the associated Ruffner Hall, and will inform ongoing discussion around the future of the honorific namings.

this series is another step as part of a long path of truth telling and righting unrightable wrongs. Congratulations Liz Varon and also Louis Nelson (and Andrea Douglas and Kirt von Daacke) for spearheading this effort:

UVA and the History of Race: The Lost Cause Through Judge Duke’s Eyes One in an occasional series about the findings of the President’s Commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation. Today’s installment explores UVA’s role in promulgating a racist post-Civil War creed known as the “Lost Cause.”

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Maryland Establishes First Statewide Commission on Racial Terror Lynchings Governor Larry Hogan signs HB 307 into law. (Maryland Lynching Memorial Project)Maryland Establishes First Statewide Commission on Racial Terror LynchingsApril 22, 2019PrintemailMaryland Governor Larry Hogan on Thursday signed HB 307 into law, creating the nation's first statewide truth commission e...

Important to see public officials making this recognition. A great book on this subject is by Sherrilyn Ifill is On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century. Although it is national in scope, it also focuses on Maryland and especially Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Maryland Establishes First Statewide Commission on Racial Terror Lynchings Governor Larry Hogan signs HB 307 into law. (Maryland Lynching Memorial Project)Maryland Establishes First Statewide Commission on Racial Terror LynchingsApril 22, 2019PrintemailMaryland Governor Larry Hogan on Thursday signed HB 307 into law, creating the nation's first statewide truth commission e...

These folks inspire with how they have gained control over their neighborhood in ways that promote equity and inclusion:
What can Charlottesville learn from one of the most successful African American-led development corporation’s in the country? Join us on Wednesday, January 9th at 7:00 pm in the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to welcome Mtamanika Youngblood and Donell Woodson from Atlanta’s Historic District Development Corporation’s to Charlottesville. Learn about the work this organization is doing to preserve and revitalize Atlanta’s historically black Sweet Auburn neighborhood, site of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s boyhood home.

Following their presentation, Ms. Youngblood and Mr. Woodson will be joined on stage by City Councilor Dr. Wes Bellamy for a conversation about how a development corporation would work within the context of his incentive package, and how lessons learned in Atlanta might serve as a roadmap for community transformation in Charlottesville. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Bevin Etienne, Professor in the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

This event is free and open to the public. Support provided by funders of the Charlottesville Civil Rights Pilgrimage. All events in the Heritage Center’s Auditorium supported by Ting, Inc.

latest news about the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA - construction begun.

Work on Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Gets Underway Construction is underway on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, with significant site work beginning on the “triangle of grass” near Brooks Hall and across University Avenue from the Corner.

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45979234

London university calls for £100m slavery reparation.

Last month, Glasgow University revealed it had received slave-related funding.

Glasgow University discovered that up to £198m in today's value had been donated in the 19th Century by people who had profited from the slave trade.

In response it announced a "reparative justice programme", including creating a centre for the study of slavery and a memorial to the enslaved.

'Historic opportunity'
But Mr Thompson says there should be a collective university fund to support today's black and ethnic minority students through university.

Uni calls for £100m slavery reparation UK universities which gained from slave trade are asked to pay into fund for ethnic minority students.