Hey, #Charlottesville, remember that the city market is at Ix Art Park today. Please go over & support your favorite vendors. It's well outside the restricted zone & there's plenty of free parking.
Almost empty. We can do better than this, #Charlottesville, these are our friends. You need their peaches & heirloom tomatoes. They need your bucks.
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." 👌🏾