Congrats to Pharrell Williams on doing good in is neighborhood he is going to open a school for low income families in Virginia. via: NBC Washington The first school will open this fall in Ghent — the group declined to specify where — for students in the city in grades three through five with the goal […]

Virginia made history on Monday night with its 85-77 win over Texas Teach in overtime. It’s the first time the school’s men’s basketball team has won the NCAA championship in school history. They were led by De’Andre Hunter, who knocked down a career-high 27 points while Kyle Guy made a big shot when the game was going down […]

March Madness ended with a doozy on Sunday, as number-two ranked Michigan State upset number-one ranked Duke, 68-67, to advance to college basketball’s Final Four. They’ll meet Texas Tech next Saturday, who had their own upset, stunning Gonzaga on Saturday, 75-69. Next Saturday’s other game will pit Virginia against Auburn. Number-one ranked Virginia earned their […]

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The room of Sally Hemings, a slave who had a long-term relationship with Thomas Jefferson, will be excavated at Monticello.

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A Virginia judge sentenced five teens, convicted for spray-painting racial slurs on an abandoned building, to read books about diversity. Should the punishment for racial crimes be a trip to the library?

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Six people were shot in Chicago on Wednesday during a vigil for a homicide victim.

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A Virginia waitress got a shocking note that read "great service, don't tip Black people" on a bill from a White couple she served at a restaurant Saturday.

Authorities arrest five teenage boys for spray painting racist graffiti on an historic Black schoolhouse. However, they declined to charge them with a hate crime or identify their race.

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Despite the Obama administration’s mission to alleviate the health insurance market through the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” healthcare rates may rise up to nearly 35 percent in some parts of the U.S. for 2017.

Virginia police arrested Tracy Lawrence after she reportedly punched an assistant principal, knocking the woman unconscious, during a meeting at her child’s school. ABC 13 reports:…

Over a month ago now, Sanise Diamonique Hall, 14, went missing from her Suffolk, Virginia home. Her parents are still seeking answers about her disappearance…

A live TV interview turns violently wrong as a reporter and photographer for Virginia’s WDBJ were shot and killed Wednesday morning. Reporter Alison Parker and photographer…