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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers have voted to scrap the state’s Lee-Jackson holiday celebrating two Confederate generals and replacing it with one…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — At a time when states are debating the removal of Confederate monuments, Maryland is adding bronze statues of two of the state's…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A northern Virginia row house that once housed one of the nation's largest slave-trading businesses is up for sale.The Northern…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An Episcopal seminary in northern Virginia is starting a $1.7 million reparations fund to make up for its reliance on slave labor…

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - William & Mary has received a $1 million grant to help fund research into the legacy of slavery and racism at the school in…

JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - A heckler who interrupted President Donald Trump's speech in Jamestown is a newly elected Muslim lawmaker from Virginia whose…

The Eastern Shore produced some of the most famous abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman while maintaining a growing free black…

It has been 400 years since the first Africans arrived in chains on the shores of Virgina beginning the era of slavery that would haunt the nation long…

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - The College of William & Mary plans to erect a memorial to people who were enslaved at the centuries-old school in Virginia.The…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Georgetown University undergraduates have voted in favor of a referendum seeking the establishment of a fund benefiting the descendants…