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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 ...
Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County have been added to a federal list of "sanctuary jurisdictions." Local ...
It was late August in Charlottesville, Va., two years ago this month, with temperatures pushing into the high 80s. But what then-Mayor Mike Signer remembers most vividly about those days is the cold.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The mayor of Charlottesville suggested Sunday that President Trump has created an environment in which white supremacists feel welcome to publicly promote their views. In an interview on CBS'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 ...
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 ...