Jordy Yager

Thanks so much John!! Appreciate you.

Charlottesville friends, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center @jsaahccville.bsky.social has released a great new app--History in the Palm of Your Hand. It explores the story of the school & our city through audio, photos, documents & maps. It's very cool. mailchi.mp/jeffschoolhr...

JSAAHC - Apps on Google Play Discover the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center!

For Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

JSAAHC - Apps on Google Play Discover the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center!

Download now for Apple:

apps.apple.com/us/app/jsaah...

The new JSAAHC app is officially here!

📍 11-stop audio tour
🖼️ Archival photos + documents
🌍 Multi-language support

UVa shooter's mentor won't say if he called police after being told of deadly plans The man who mentored Christopher Jones Jr. before he shot and killed three UVa schoolmates has refused to say whether he dialed 911 when Jones revealed his plans.

From its headline to its content this “article’s” contrived and salacious agenda oozes onto its floorboards.

dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

"No climbing" signs have been up for a while now, and yet kids are still running on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Makes me sad, mad, and frustrated.

Nikuyah Walker, former mayor of Charlottesville, has endorsed me for the Charlottesville School Board.

Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods? The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.

“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”

They say Charlottesville is the Paris of the South…

LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit The 18 decommissioned Confederate monuments have been deconstructed and displayed to make a statement on the horrors of slavery.

LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.

What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

Well, damn.

Well, damn.

7 things every child needs to hear?
#parenting #family #ideology

All of this was made possible by the wonderful guidance of David Plunkett at JRML, and the fantastic foundational work of Risa Goluboff, Randi Flaherty, and Birkutawit Assef, combined with the editorial guidance of Andrea Douglas, Ivan Orr, and Addie Patrick. A true and solid team.

Gregory Swanson Honoring Gregory H. Swanson's pivotal role in a movement for civil rights.

As part of the 75th Anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's successful case to desegregate the University of Virginia, I created a Storymap.

We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today.

arcg.is/1T8aC85

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth.
Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

Kara Walker has long been one of my favorite living artists. She’s brilliant.
“Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

I spent my childhood (sometimes literally) in the shadow of this Stonewall Jackson monument. Kara Walker has a wonderful facility for marrying complex ideas and simple truths, in addition to producing aesthetically excellent work. This is a triumph. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

The mission of the Center for Local Knowledge (CLK) at @jsaahccville.bsky.social is rooted in reparative and spatial justice.

The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.

Person holding a protest sign

“Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? You’re doing it RIGHT NOW!”

Screening Raised/Razed to a group of Government officials from Roanoke, Amherst, Warren, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Shenandoah, Prince George, Staunton, Colonial Beach, Vienna, VA + Ennis, TX, Riverside, MO, Westminster, CO, Gaithersburg, MD + Onslow, Gastonia, and Nags Head, NC.

We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together.

Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act.

bookriot.com/we-can-still...

The UVA Board of Visitors has quite a history. (Below is far from the only grim example.) The current board, which schemed with the Trump regime to oust the university's president, is honoring it.

Security Culture – Defend Dissent Digital suppression and cryptographic defense of social movements

Persuade me otherwise, but I don’t think every public utterance needs to be archived or posted on the internet. Indeed, at some moments, perhaps this one included, it can actually be risky. Mentioned this to a colleague, who sent this helpful article about security in social movement culture.

Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him.

It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.

Swanson took them to court, and won.

I wonder if anyone's studied the first 30 years of UVA graduates (1829-1859) to see where they went & what they did—TJ designed the school to teach, espouse, and spread very specific ideas and ideals, so what did the first three decades of that look like exactly—collectively, in total?