Before West Virginia was its own state, a Congressman from Massachusetts travelled to Wayne County with dreams of building a ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s (R) office says he will not be giving state employees the day off for Juneteenth. When asked by 12 ...

Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the official and final end to slavery in America, falls on Thursday, June 19th this year.

Governor Patrick Morrisey's office says the governor will not be giving state employees the day off for Juneteenth.

The white couple convicted of treating their adopted Black children as "slaves" received century-long prison sentences. A West Virginia couple convicted of abusing their adopted Black children and ...

Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more ... “targeted because of their race” to be used “as basically slaves.” CNN has obtained court documents related to the case, which ...

A West Virginia couple has been accused of adopting five Black children and using them for labor as if they were "slaves," according to a 17-count indictment. Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald ...

A wealthy white West Virginia couple have been accused of forcing their adopted black children to work as slaves and live inside a locked barn. Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather ...

That moment inaugurated the racist slavery that set the course of the ... when we were kids,” said Seals, who grew up in West Virginia in the 1980s. “We were not taught to be proud of ...

Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather were both sentenced on child abuse charges (West Virginia Regional Jail/Correctional Facility Authority) The latest headlines from our reporters across ...

The first Africans in Virginia were followed by more than 400,000 people captured and brought directly from West and central African to the North American slave ports, from New England to New Orleans.