The Trump administration is intensifying its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil ...

Beyond racial violence and land theft, Black business districts were systematically dismantled through urban renewal and ...

Wyatt Rolla, a senior transgender rights attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia, said Trump's EO ...

An open-minded rethinking of how the 12,500-seat Coliseum might be renovated, promoted, managed and financed could make the ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

This is the first part of a two-part series about Lincoln School and the anniversary of integration in Richmond. The end of ...

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S.

The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...

February is Black History Month, and 7News is speaking to experts about some noteworthy and historic African Americans figures that impacted the D.C.-area.Mary ...

Culpeper, a small Virginia town about 75 miles from Washington, D.C., is home to a fascinating yet often overlooked Black history.