Renuka Rayasam is a POLITICO reporter. Nikuyah Walker, Charlottesville’s first Black female mayor, is throwing in the towel. She came to power five months after the infamous rally of August 2017 ...

RICHMOND — Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker on Wednesday tweeted a poem she'd penned about the college town she leads, one so spare that it approached haiku, and yet abundantly shocking.

Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer called on the Virginia state legislature on Friday to convene a special session to push for new laws that would give local governments power to decide the ...

Amazingly, this is not all. Walker, who became Charlottesville’s first black mayor in 2017, posted a lengthier, more fleshed-out version of her “poem” later Wednesday afternoon, committing ...

Nikuyah Walker, the first Black woman to be mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, has posted poetry on Twitter and Facebook that has drawn national attention for descriptions of a picturesque ...

151; -- The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, wants the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee removed from the city’s center, he said in a statement today, explaining that such “monuments ...

151; -- The new mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, said residents were scared, but not surprised, when violence unfolded at a white nationalist rally in the city this summer. Mayor Nikuyah Walker ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. --A Virginia mayor has become the target of hate-filled, anti-Semitic messages from anonymous Twitter trolls after condemning a weekend protest over the planned removal of a ...

A day after a tense white nationalist gathering in his city turned deadly, Charlottesville, Virginia, Mayor Michael Signer expressed his displeasure with how Donald Trump carried himself during ...

Last year Nikuyah Walker was an activist criticizing how Charlottesville, Va., handled the Unite the Right rally. Now she's mayor. Noel King talks to her about how the rally changed Charlottesville.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Michael Signer about this week's assault on the U.S. Capitol and lessons from his dealings with white extremists. While the ...