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The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack [12] perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35.
The August 11–12 Unite the Right rally was organized by Charlottesville native and white supremacist Jason Kessler [6] [49] to protest the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue honoring the Confederate general, as well as the renaming of the statue's eponymous park (renamed to Emancipation Park in June ...
The Our Lady of the Angels Monastery is a 507 acres (205 ha) [1] Trappistine monastery near Crozet, Virginia (in the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia), which sits in a small valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Route 64. They are cloistered from the public.
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, [a] is an independent city in Virginia, United States. It is the seat of government of Albemarle County, which ...
On May 1, 2018, white supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin was convicted of the malicious wounding of Harris by a Charlottesville jury, which recommended a sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a $20,000 (~$23,907 in 2023) fine. [47] On May 3, 2018, Alex Michael Ramos was convicted of malicious wounding by a jury in Charlottesville.
His first live album, Are You Going to Paul Curreri was recorded at Charlottesville's (now-defunct) Gravity Lounge, and released in 2006. Musical backing was provided by Charlottesvillians Randall Pharr (bass) and Spencer Lathrop (drums). Curreri's fifth album, The Velvet Rut, was released in the UK on Tin Angel Records in June 2007. It was ...
Secret societies have been a part of University of Virginia student life since the first class of students in 1825. While the number of societies peaked during the 75 years between 1875 and 1950, there are several newer societies and seven societies that have been active for more than 100 years, including Seven Society, Z Society, IMP Society, Eli Banana, T.I.L.K.A. Society, and The 13 Society.
Sonja Hoel Perkins is a venture capitalist, founder and managing director of the Perkins Fund and a co-founder of Broadway Angels. [1] [2] [3] Before starting her own fund, Perkins worked as a venture capitalist at Menlo Ventures. [1] [4] In 2015, Worth magazine ranked her among the 100 Most Powerful People in Finance in the World. [5] [6]