Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger will be sworn in as the first woman governor of Virginia on Saturday Jan. 17. The inauguration ...

Peasley Middle School eighth graders recently traveled to Richmond to tour the Virginia State Capitol and Executive Mansion.

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...

Barbara Johns, who led a courageous and history-changing walkout of students at her racially segregated high school in Farmville nearly 75 years ago, contributed far more to the commonwealth of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A newly unveiled statue of teenage civil rights heroine Barbara Johns now stands for Virginia in the United States Capitol, along with a statue of George Washington, replacing ...

Charleston, W.Va. (WTRF) — Governor Patrick Morrisey and First Lady Denise Morrisey are inviting local families to the Governor’s Mansion for free photos with Santa Claus inside a life-sized ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four years after Virginia selected the civil rights icon to ...

2 GOP senators back effort to nullify Donald Trump's executive order ‘Breakdown: 1975’ mistakes opinion for history - and blames the wrong people MIT professor shot dead in Brookline home, ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...