RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The city of Richmond carries a legacy tethered to the formation of the United States of America. Many of our founding fathers spent time in Richmond, but it also played a key ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A portion of the Richmond Slave Trail is now protected in perpetuity, after a local land conservation group spent years in talks to purchase it from Norfolk Southern. Richmond's slave ...

RICHMOND, Va. — City and state leaders unveiled plans on Monday for a life-size replica slave ship with amphitheater seating and a granite memorial wall at Ancarrow's Trailhead in Richmond. Those new ...

A new project aimed at honoring the history of enslaved Africans in America is set to take shape in Richmond. City leaders, in partnership with The Shockoe Project, have announced the construction of ...

On a warm spring night, more than 150 people gathered in Shockoe Bottom, a name taken from the Native American word for a site in Richmond, Va. This part of town, bounded by I-95 and bisected by ...

With young black men used as bait, dogs were trained to track and pursue runaway slaves in the cobblestone courtyard of a Richmond slave jail. Hidden for more than a century, the courtyard of round, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — For more than 150 years, Virginia’s capital city greeted visitors with a landscape steeped in Confederate heritage and dotted with its relics, including a collection of enormous ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond city officials are debating whether a memorial to the city’s slave trade should include a notoriously brutal slave trader’s name in the project. The Richmond ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials in Richmond have announced a major funding commitment for an ambitious and long-envisioned memorial campus in the city's former slave-trading district, Shockoe Bottom.

A key Virginia lawmaker says Richmond would have to raise all of the private money necessary to complete a proposed $30 million project to commemorate the slave trade in Shockoe Bottom before the ...

RICHMOND HILL , Ga. (WTOC) - An old cemetery in Richmond Hill, where slaves are buried, is on its way to being restored thanks to a group of community members. The Strathy Hall cemetery buried in ...