A Northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

Arlington is taking a cue form Germany, where “stumbling stones” are embedded near the homes of Holocaust victims.

While on an artists’ retreat at a former slave plantation, our columnist Eirinie Carson muses on history’s worst moments – ...

Va., Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Finley) The search for Fleming Adams Sr. One of the sharecroppers was Fleming Adams Sr., ...

On March 3, the City will unveil the new historical marker following years of debate, research and community-led memorials.

The graves of hundreds of African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved in Virginia to make way for an ...

The city of Charlottesville unveiled a state historical marker on Monday that recognizes the sales of enslaved men, women, ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

The combination of poor staffing and high incarceration rates is no coincidence — incarceration in Virginia is a ...

The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society will meet virtually at 11 a.m. Saturday, March ...