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Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will be in Charlottesville to present the film, Mighty Times: The Children’s March, at the Paramount Theater, Tuesday, October 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. Price of admission is $25 for adults, $15 for students. Tickets will be available online at the Paramount box office on [...]
Filed under: charlottesville, lectures, movies, virginia | Tagged: Children's March, Mighty Times, Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center | Leave a Comment »
Here in Charlottesville, we don’t spend just one day commemorating the European conquest of the New World — we devote the whole weekend! From my inbox: This weekend is our Columbus: the Myth and the American Dream Revisited event. You’ve seen the posters, you’ve read about it in the C’ville, maybe you’ve heard about it [...]
Filed under: charlottesville, lectures, movies, virginia | Tagged: American Indians, Columbus, Columbus Day, Cows with Guns, Dana Lyons, Derrick Jensen, European conquest, Manifest Destiny, Native Americans, Natsu Saito, New World, Ward Churchill | 1 Comment »
There doesn’t seem to be much love in Charlottesville for the Lewis and Clark statue on Main & Ridge. If you’re sick of seeing poor little Sacagawea cowering behind big, brave Lewis and Clark, now’s your chance to do something about it. Read all about it at Wistar’s blog.
Filed under: charlottesville, virginia | Tagged: Lewis and Clark, protest, racism, Sacagawea, sexism | 4 Comments »
Today is the 555th anniversary of the birth of Richard III. Historians tell us that Shakespeare maligned him, but I think Will is, as usual, playing a double game with us. Shakespeare makes Richard III a most preposterously attractive villain, and allows him to begin his tragical-comical-historical-pastoral play with a terrific speech: Now is the [...]
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