A few weeks ago, as the first wave of smoke from the Canadian wildfires rolled south, I was getting ready to drive from Charlottesville, Virginia, about 18 hours west to my hometown of Rogers, Arkansas, to visit family.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/south-extreme-heat-wave-texas-climate-change/674598/?utm_source=feed

In 2008, saxophonist LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band was seriously injured in an ATV accident at his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/entertainment-news/2023/06/today-in-entertainment-history-monroe-married-miller/

Spitalnick most recently served as the executive director of Integrity First for America, the civil rights nonprofit behind the federal lawsuit against the hate groups responsible for the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.

Source: https://jewishjournal.com/events/movers-shakers/358812/swc-gala-lag-bomer-party-jcpa-appoints-ceo/

The committee had been dormant since all previous members resigned in 2017 in protest against former president Donald Trump’s reaction to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/joe-biden-appoints-lady-gaga-presidential-committee-arts

The group broke away from another organization, Vanguard America, in August 2017 after the bloody “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Source: https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2023/03/12/white-supremacist-propaganda/