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REPLAY Abolishing The Death Penalty
Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty. Sabrina Butler-Smith is the first woman to be exonerated from d…
3 years ago
A Confrontation With History
As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings. She won…
3 years, 1 month ago
REPLAY The Empathy Tours
Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a star…
3 years, 1 month ago
Working Conditions
Connective labor is disappearing. Professions that rely on connecting humans -- like teaching or therapists -- are being automated. Allison Pugh says…
3 years, 1 month ago
Destroying The Soul
Political prisons in the Arab world are rooted in colonialism. Diana Obeid says these prisons are meant to instill fear and destroy the soul. And: In…
3 years, 1 month ago
Music For Life
Growing up in Southwest Virginia, Tyler Hughes has been steeped in the traditions of mountain music and dance from a young age. For him, music is abo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Visions Of Style
In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio. Among them were 600 portraits self-comm…
3 years, 2 months ago
REPLAY Outdoor Archives
We often think of cemeteries as separate worlds unto themselves. But people buried at Confederate graveyards were surely connected to people at the A…
3 years, 2 months ago
Magic And Miracles
At markets in the ancient world, silver-tongued magicians hawked their wares of amulets, cursed tablets and even spells. But Shaily Patel says early …
3 years, 2 months ago
Aging Well
These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case. Corinne Field sa…
3 years, 3 months ago