DANVILLE — A decision to move the remains of hundreds of African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of emotions among ...

The decision to do so has sparked backlash and mixed feelings from the surrounding community, especially as the displacement ...

The remains of hundreds of Black tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation will be moved to a dedicated burial ...

The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) announced that Virginia tobacco has started trading operations for the cropping ...

The graves of hundreds of African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved in Virginia to make way for an ...

In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...

When young R.J. Reynolds left his native Patrick County, Virginia, in the 1870s to launch a tobacco factory in Winston-Salem, he probably never envisioned that simple endeavor ballooning into a ...

A dive into the American Lung Association’s “State of Tobacco Control” shows our region doesn’t come close to meeting the ALA ...

State legislation targeting liquid and vapor nicotine products risks crushing small businesses with expensive and complicated ...