Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner is asking South Carolina to posthumously pardon two of his great-uncles - black landowners executed in 1915 after being convicted of murdering an elderly Confederate Army veteran.

Pittsylvania County officials plan to survey and protect an old slave cemetery that contains about 200 marked gravesites.

You know you’ve made an impact on the world when they celebrate your birthday 75 years after you’ve gone. About 75 people gathered yesterday to pay tribute to the life and legacy of trailblazing Richmond native Maggie L. Walker in commemoration of her 145th birthday. “She’d be so happy,“ said Walker’s 84-year-old granddaughter, Elizabeth Randolph, reflecting on the songs of praise and words of gratitude that filled the Third Street Bethel AME Church.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today that the historic Virginia Freedmen’s Bureau records are now available online to historians, family history researchers and others.

Colonial Williamsburg this weekend will offer expanded programs about the experiences of slaves and free blacks in 18th-century Virginia, ranging from re-enacted sermons by black and white preachers to military drills and hands-on farm work. The events are designed to note 30 years of interpretive programs about the black experience in Colonial Virginia. In the 1970s, CW began focusing its exhibits less on political leaders and more on the lives of regular people, “and more than half the 18th-century population of Williamsburg was African-American,“ said Jim Bradley, a spokesman for Colonial Williamsburg.