Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

From the 1760s until the Civil War, runaway slave ads in the Virginia and North Carolina newspapers often mentioned the Dismal Swamp as the likely destination, and there was persistent talk of ...

"Your Committee on Emancipation beg leave to report as a part of the Constitution of Virginia, to be inserted in the same, under the caption of "Slavery or Freedom." First -- Slavery and ...

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Glenn Youngkin (R) wants to remove one of his appointees on the governing board of the University of Virginia, worried that the member’s outspoken and sometimes combative manner could undermine ...

Virginia unveils a new historical marker honoring Belleville, a community in Suffolk founded by William Saunders Crowdy, a ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...

City leaders and the Shockoe Institute held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, highlighting the significance of the ...

On Wednesday, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to 215 years in prison for forced labor, human trafficking, child abuse and neglect, and violating the children's civil rights, according to a ...