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Charlottesville’s Divides Are America’s Divides

The city still has not healed from the events of last August.
Source: Sait Serkan Gurbuz / Reuters

Last summer, Charlottesville, Virginia, became the site of a multi-day white-supremacist march and rally that left one woman, a counter-protester, dead, setting off a wave of emotions and accusations that shook the city and the country.

Charlottesville has. “The trauma that you can feel and hear in conversations [today suggest that] Charlottesville has not moved forward,” Barnes said.

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