Jim Crow

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered Virginia to stop asking marriage applicants to identify themselves by race.The order issued Monday by…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says he has restored voting and other civil rights to more than 22,000 felons who have completed their…

A former African American school in Delaware has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.The Richard Allen School in Georgetown was one of…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Ralph Northam has signed a bill striking Jim Crow-era exceptions from Virginia's minimum-wage law, and he formed a commission to…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has formed a new commission tasked with finding discriminatory language in state laws and…

San Domingo is a small African American community just west of Salisbury, MD. And, there among the tall trees sits what was once the Sharptown Colored…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Activists in Virginia are calling on officials to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a park. News outlets…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Virginia school division has decided to remove a prominent segregationist's name from a school building.The Henrico County school…

Governor Jack Markell is set to sign a measure that apologizes for Delaware’s role in the institution of slavery.The measure acknowledges the cruelty and…

Ruth Starr Rose painted what are considered to be some of the most significant portraits of an African American family on the Eastern Shore. A white woman…