April Celebrations
This Islamic holiday celebrated in April involves a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community and is a commemoration of Muhammad's first revelation.
What is Ramadan?
This Academy Award nominated actress has starred in such films as Desparado, Dogma, and Frida.
Who is Salma Hayek?
People with this mental disorder have debilitating thoughts and impulses such as irrational hand washing or tidiness.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman this musician is known as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Who is Bob Dylan?
This once thriving black community was razed in 1964 for economic re-development. The neighborhood extended along Main Street from the eastern end of today's Downtown Mall. The city-led "urban renewal" event displaced more than 600 black families and closed over 30 Black-owned businesses.
What is Vinegar Hill?
Equal Pay Day was nationally recognized on April 2, 2019 to raise public awareness of this discrepancy between men's and women's earnings.
What is the wage gap or gender pay gap?
This co-anchor of NBC's Today Show got her undergraduate degree form Virginia Tech and claims Egyptian descent.
Who is Hoda Kotb?
This condition typically experienced in the winter months has the acronym SAD and is characterized by a depression capable of sapping your energy and making one moody.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
This American Jewish reggae singer, rapper, beatboxer, and alternative rock musician sings in English, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Who is Mattisyahu?
A strategy declared by US Senator Harry Byrd from Virginia to resist school desegregation, this was an effort to shutdown schools to block integration after Brown v. Board of Education and specifically when the "Charlottesville Twelve" integrated Lane High School and Venable Elementary School in 1956.
What is Massive Resistance?
This Christian holiday celebrated on a Sunday is a joyful celebration of Jesus Christ's resurrection and is marked by colorful eggs and sweet treats.
What is Easter?
Half-Syrian Jewish, this comedian starred in one of the most popular comedy TV shows of the 1990s, specializing in observational comedy. You might find him today riding in cars with comedians getting coffee.
Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
This condition is characterized by not feeling worthy of one's position and includes doubting one's abilities and feeling like a fraud.
What is imposter syndrome?
This actress won an Academy Award for her leading role in Black Swan.
Who is Natalie Portman?
The scheduled removal of the statue of this Confederate General from its respective park in Downtown Charlottesville led to the infamous Unite the Right Rally in August 2017.
Who is Robert E Lee?
This day established in 1970 is celebrated by 192 countries to raise awareness for the modern environmental movement.
What is Earth Day?
This half-Palestinian supermodel and TV personality stars in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and is good friends with the Kardashians.
Who is Gigi Hadid?
Wrote The Chanukah Song about famous Jews and is a famous actor/comedian himself.
Who is Adam Sandler?
This process of wealthier people moving in and improving housing is credited with displacing poorer inhabitants and contributing to soaring housing costs, affecting such Charlottesville neighborhoods as Belmont and Fifeville.
What is gentrification?
This holiday celebrated April 15-23, 2022 in Judaism celebrates the Hebrews' liberation from Egyptian slavery and marks the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites.
What is Passover?
This Palestinian hip-hop DJ, rapper, and music producer came out with the hit single "All I Do Is Win" in 2010.
Who is DJ Khaled?
A newly defined phenomenon affecting many workplaces, this two word condition involves feeling uncomfortable with and dismissing negative emotions, and responding to distress with false reassurances rather than empathy. Sometimes, you're allowed to say, "That sucks."
What is toxic positivity?
This Columbia Law graduate was the first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This national holiday marks the annual Naturalization Ceremony at Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello when a large group of immigrants become naturalized US citizens. The event has been attended by former US President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
What is July 4th?