The best #Charlottesville-One-Year-Later stories will be written & produced by Charlottesvillians. Today, I'm starting a thread to highlight work that's caught my eye. I welcome suggestions about things I've missed.
But first...
Words matter. What happened in #Charlottesville on August 11th & 12th last year wasn't a rally. It wasn't a riot. It was terrorism.
White supremacist terrorists invaded my city, killing Heather Heyer & sending dozens to the hospital.
Terrorism. It's the right word. Please use it.
The best & most comprehensive account of the terrorist attacks in #Charlottesville last August 11th & 12th is sure to be @pastpunditry's podcast series. Many voices, many perspectives, brilliant synthesis. Listen to an intro here. 👇🏾
#Charlottesville's local newspaper, the @DailyProgress, is running a series of articles that look at the terror attacks from various angles. The first is by @Suarez_CM, who was on the story from the very beginning--that is, long before the August attacks.
Today, @RuthServen of the @DailyProgress has a story on @UVA, which was the scene of one of the terror attacks & remains the scene of a host of unresolved issues.
I've already mentioned the new book, Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race & Inequality. I'll give it another boost because the essays are so strong & the story that unfolds is so richly layered. (And, tbh, because one of the essays is mine.)
These steps might look small, but it's possible that they're the beginning of a long-overdue process of repairing the relationship between @UVA & Charlottesville's African American community. Seems to me that President Ryan deserves both our support & our critical engagement.
Well, poop. Amtrak is already preemptively cancelling trains along the east coast for later this week & the weekend. Hurricane #Florence.
That's not really a complaint. The last time a hurricane came ashore & stalled over Virginia, 153 people died in flooding & mudslides in Nelson County, just south of Charlottesville. 👉🏾 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Co…
And the forecast is no joke. 👇🏾
This rainfall-potential map from the @NWS is enough to scare anyone who remembers the 153 deaths in Nelson County from Hurricane Camille. Nelson is in the bullseye this time, too. So is Charlottesville. cc @cvillenewscom
Adding to this thread on some stunningly good journalism.
I love this example of how a text, by Lisa Rab, & (simply gorgeous) portraits, by Travis Dove, can tell very different but complementary & reinforcing stories. washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/…
And this. Just listened to the podcast. More extraordinary journalism. Heartbreaking. Infuriating, too.
Here's a Gordon Parks photo for #WorldPhotographyDay.
A portrait of Ella Watson. But not *that* portrait of Ella Watson. Not the iconic one.
I'm writing about both. And several others. Stay tuned.
A Rufus Holsinger photo for #WorldPhotograhyDay.
Miss Conkey, with beet. Charlottesville, 1918.
I mean, if you grew a giant beet, you'd want a picture of it, too.
Here's Newman talking about the portrait: "There's only twice I ever tried to deliberately show an individual as bad, and that was Alfred Krupp and Richard Nixon. Actually, I didn't do it on purpose to Nixon -- he did it to himself." 👌🏾