Charlottesville’s self-evident truths

The United States still hasn't fully come to terms with its history of racism.

New Yorkers held a demonstration in solidarity with Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 13, a day after white supremacists marched through that town and clashed with counter-protesters, resulting in the death of a young woman. Photograph by Eden, Janine and Jim, courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

August 16, 2017

Like so many places in the American South, Charlottesville is beautiful and haunted. Thomas Jefferson haunts the iconic University of Virginia campus he designed like an invisible chancellor, just as Sally Hemings and hundreds of other slaves haunt Monticello as self-evident truths in the course of ...

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