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 was having a long and frustrating day. She has lots of them, like plenty of mayors, even though hers is a wealthy, picturesque college town that ...

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 ...

Tear down that Confederate statue. That's the message that Mayor Mike Signer of Charlottesville, Virginia, conveyed Friday after having a change of heart on the issue following last weekend's ...

In a new book, Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, recounts the months leading up to the rally, including the decision to allow it to continue. In Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and ...