A West Virginia county sought clarification regarding state law after a spokesperson for Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Juneteenth would not be considered a state paid holiday for public workers. In an ...

He created the American Emigrant Aid and Homestead Company in order to create industry-focused towns across the South, and ...

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

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

Torrential rains caused flash flooding in West Virginia over the weekend, leading to several deaths. This is a photo gallery ...

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 ...

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

A white West Virginia couple found guilty of forcing their five adopted Black children to work as "slaves" on their farm were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison. Jeanne Kay Whitefeather ...

A white couple has been sentenced in West Virginia to serve over a hundred years in prison each after they were found to have treated their five adopted black children as slaves on their farms.

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.