Charlottesville's statues still stand
By Paul Duggan August 10 at 7:00 AM
Two years ago, when white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, organizers of the Unite the Right rally said they were defending a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which the city planned to remove from a public park ...
... it’s still standing, as is a towering bronze equestrian statue of rebel Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, which the city also wants to remove ...
... The question of whether the statues “were part of a regime of city-sanctioned segregation” appears headed for Virginia’s Supreme Court ...
Eight months before the Jackson monument was unveiled, local citizens of privileged color were aghast at a subversive wish list published Feb. 12, 1921, in the black-owned Charlottesville Messenger, and reprinted, for shock value, on the front page of the city’s white-run paper, the Daily Progress.
Titled “The New Negro,” the article called for “Teachers’ salaries based on service not on color;” a four-year high school for black students; “Better street facilities in Negro districts”; a voice for blacks in municipal government; and the abolition of “ ‘Jim Crow’ street cars.” The Daily Progress, appalled by the manifesto, echoed its flabbergasted readers in an editorial warning that “the negroes” should remember their place ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/08/10/charlottesvilles-confederate-statues-still-stand-still-symbolize-racist-past/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
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There are other events throughout downtown Charlottesville.
https://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-a-g/city-manager-s-office/communications/unity-days-2019
Lots of extra police around including Virginia State Police who seem to have an urgent need to get on top of buildings and photograph everyone in the park. Those trombones might be used as weapons later I guess. (<---sarcasm) 
We provided a PA system for one of the events.
Live stream of the "Sing out"
https://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-a-g/city-manager-s-office/communications/peg-television/charlottesville-tv10/boxcast-live-streaming-archive