February is Black History Month — but where did the concept come from? The answer is right here in Central Virginia.

Virginia City’s boom in the later half of the nineteenth century brought some of Nevada’s early Black residents to the ...

Gary Ham, the University’s first Black football player on the varsity team and Class of 1973 alumnus, shares his story with ...

snuffed out political participation by most Black men and many poor white men in Virginia for decades. There were no Black members of the General Assembly from 1890 to 1968, when Dr. William ...

Nine years later, Dr. Martin, entered the program as the first Black doctor and person of color to do so. "In middle school I carried a little white briefcase that said, 'Dr. Martin,'" he explained.

SEE ALSO: Virginia bill could grant adult adoptees access to original birth certificates Reverend Jasper Fletcher, one of the panelists, said, "Being a Black man and a white man and a proud man ...

Marsh sought a seat in the Virginia Senate. He was first elected in 1991 to a majority-Black district redrawn, on the urging of then-Gov. Wilder, from the heavily white seat from which a veteran ...

The Air Force even removed a video celebrating the Tuskegee Airmen, a segregated unit of Black pilots who fought in World War II, before restoring it amid an uproar. Asked how the White House ...

Virginia voters on Tuesday elected McClellan, a veteran state legislator from Richmond, to fill an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she will make history as the first Black ...

It turns out the founder of the observation that eventually became Black History Month was from West Virginia ... Katherine Johnson, from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., earned the Presidential ...

Lobach also served as a White House social aide during ... were recovered sometime Friday. The Black Hawk had taken off from nearby Fort Belvoir in Virginia, and was conducting a routine training ...

A tough new assessment says the Democratic Party needs to reassess the loss of support among groups of voters it has long ...