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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered Virginia to stop asking marriage applicants to identify themselves by race.The order issued Monday by…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has formed a new commission tasked with finding discriminatory language in state laws and…
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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…
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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…
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Virginia school division has decided to remove a prominent segregationist's name from a school building.The Henrico County school…
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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…
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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…