Chautauqua County was home to more than 1,100 anti-slavery activists between 1835 and 1860, the period leading up to the ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Rep. Lauren Carson and Rep. Terri Cortvriend will host an upcoming virtual Aquidneck Island Climate Caucus conversation with ...

Della Moore, co-founder and director of the African American Center for Cultural Development in Olean, is celebrating Black ...

Captain America actor Anthony Mackie got the Internet into a tizzy when he said Captain America doesn’t represent 'America.' ...

Thursday and Friday mark three days of memories, love, respect and sharing. Our 16th president was born on Feb. 12, Giving ...

Some of Muhammad Ali’s family members believe there is a direct link between him and Sen. Henry Clay that’s proven by DNA.

She is buried at the Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown. Harriet Tubman, know for helping escape slavery through the Underground Railroad, ranked 33rd on the list, Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (38 ...

so Mendenhall legally procured the freedom of his slaves. Sherman Ampey is the great-great grandson of James who was born about 1793 in Richmond, Va., but worked as an overseer on the farm of ...

Virginia captures the attention of history-loving travelers. Here, you'll find Colonial settlements, Civil War battlefields ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.

She was commissioned to create artwork for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition ... such as the home lives of African Americans and the slaves arriving in Virginia in the 1600s.