Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

The West Virginia couple, who is White ... making them use buckets as toilets and forcing them to work “as slaves” has been found guilty of human trafficking and other charges.

Aside from the disingenuous lie that the devil doesn’t exist (or so he or she convinced many of us), the second most ...

He scored his first goal since the trade in a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday. As he assimilates into his new team, questions about his free-agency intentions are rampant.

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He and his brother-in-law spent $30,000 in savings to launch The Hype Section, which brought in more than $1 million in sales in its first full year of business, says Gil, 41. The store built a ...

When Carlos Gil opened The Hype Section alongside his brother-in-law in 2022, he was ready for entrepreneurship's promise of financial freedom. Gil, a social media marketer, got a taste of the ...

Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather adopted the children, ages 5 to 16, and brought the family to West Virginia in May ... Matthew Dingess for the first day of trial on January 14 ...