J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

At the end of Tuesday’s proceedings, Rocky’s lawyers sought a hearing on the demographics of the jury pool, saying that the area that potential jurors were pulled from is 9% African-American ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

Loudoun resident Donna Bohanon was on the Loudoun County Heritage Commission that successfully campaigned for the renaming of ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was Richmond’s ...