Johns was 16 years old in 1951 when she led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, ...

Three Virginia military posts will keep names reinstated by the Trump administration, not the diversity-focused names they were given previously. The House of Representatives passed a defense spending ...

A teenage Virginia Civil Rights pioneer is now memorialized inside the United States Capitol. A statue of Barbara Rose Johns ...

The Charleston County School District had requested Lee’s marker be removed in 2021, which spurred a legal battle with the ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

The two former aides to ex-state House Speaker Lee Chatfield agreed to testimony against him as part of their plea agreements.

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The Minards were accused of exploiting nonprofits, advocacy groups, and others to enrich themselves illegally, earning ...

Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves shared a tribute for the late Mickey Lee, who died on Thursday, Dec. 25, at the age of 35 ...

A few years ago, Washingtonian did quite a lot of reporting on a nondescript brick home across the street from the Russian embassy in Glover Park. That house looked almost normal—except for the three ...

Amanda Seyfried, left, stars in filmmaker Mona Fastvold's new film "The Testament of Ann Lee," which depicts the life of the Shaker founder. (Ian Spanier / For The Times) “The Testament of Ann Lee” ...