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

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

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.

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

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

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

In Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of ...

He was now a slave, one of 500,000 enslaved people ... Americans kill each other in battles throughout Virginia from Fairfax to Petersburg and west through the Shenandoah Valley.

Two brothers born into slavery in the 1820s have been honored with new "stumbling stone" historical markers on Columbia Pike.

The markers, which document the history of the Underground Railroad in the region, “span nine counties across three states,” ...

The subscribers having leased for a term of years the large three story brick house on Duke Street, in the town of Alexandria, D.C. formerly occupied by Gen. Young, we wish to purchase one hundred ...

The Greenbrier County Juneteenth Steering Committee has teamed up with the Greenbrier Historical Society to announce the ...