The first Black school superintendent in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, said he’s received racist emails since starting the job Aug. 1. Clint Mitchell decided he needed to address it publicly ...

to file the first public school desegregation lawsuit in Southwest Virginia. The lawsuit led to the admission of 13 Black students to the high school in Floyd County, followed by similar efforts ...

Prince Edward County closed its public schools from 1959 to ... Marsh sought a seat in the Virginia Senate. He was first elected in 1991 to a majority-Black district redrawn, on the urging of ...

Along with conversations about Blair, the campaign is continuing efforts to rename Magruder Elementary School in York County, named after Confederate Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. The York County ...

In the race for mayor of Pittsburgh, Democratic incumbent Ed Gainey faces a primary challenge from Allegheny County Controller ... to becoming the city’s first Black mayor.

Mike Sisco and his girlfriend Karen Harkness were gunned down in her Topeka, Kansas, home in 2002. Authorities believed it was a crime of passion. Sisco's daughter set out to help prove it was her ...

Mike Sisco and his girlfriend Karen Harkness were gunned down in her Topeka, Kansas, home in 2002. Authorities believed it was a crime of passion. Sisco's daughter set out to help prove it was her ...

A fourth case of whooping cough has been reported at Rostraver Elementary School in the Belle Vernon Area district in Westmoreland County.In a ... the students are in first, second and fifth ...

The first heart transplant ever performed in Virginia involved the heart of a local Black man that was taken without his ...

The Westmoreland County Veterans Memorial is seen in the background as Son of Union Veterans of the Civil War Capt. George A. Cribbs Camp 276 member Eric Wieble holds a flag to keep it from ...

Westmoreland County Republicans Tuesday nominated former ... court-appointed conservator last summer as the register of wills first deputy and elevated to the top job in September upon Hamilton ...

Officials and residents gathered to unveil a marker including Cape May’s Franklin Street School in the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail on Wednesday.