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The men and women of cooperative extension deserve credit for their early role in supporting and promoting the prosperity, agricultural and political education of Black farmers in America.
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Today, politicians and local leaders have thrown their support behind a memorial park and museum here. But two decades ago, this history was buried under a parking lot.
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Inspired by the daring escape of James Lindsey Smith, a group of men retrace his route from the Northern Neck back to their home in Connecticut.
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At a time when many Civil War monuments are being removed or relocated, a new one is being dedicated in Culpeper County.
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Officials in Richmond have announced a new funding commitment for an ambitious and long-envisioned memorial campus in the city's former slave-trading…
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During the Jim Crow era, when public schools in Virginia refused to educate African Americans, a prominent black educator – Booker T. Washington -- joined…
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Thursday Virginia’s Governor honored two powerhouse African-American lawyers, men whose work laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement. Oliver…
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This year in Richmond there are 23 African American lawmakers serving in the General Assembly. While that number is the largest in recent history, it…
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The state’s new Commission on African American History Education met today in Charlottesville, and Governor Ralph Northam was on hand to support its…
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To the Saturday morning drivers passing by the First Baptist Church, the men in Continental uniform, flanked by flags and wreaths and firing muskets in a…