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Restorative justice will be meaningless without substantive efforts to remedy the harm, NSU professor Colita Fairfax and former CNU professor Sophia A. Nelson write in a guest column.

The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground was one of the largest cemeteries for free and enslaved African Americans during its era from 1816 to 1879.

The exploitation of enslaved labor in Virginia cannot be allowed to morph into a commercial interest profiting from a billboard that sits on what should be hallowed ground.

The exploitation of enslaved labor in Virginia cannot be allowed to morph into a commercial interest profiting from a billboard that sits on what should be hallowed ground.

Betty E. McQueen, RN, of Hiawatha, died peacefully surrounded by family, Monday afternoon, July 24, 2023, at Vintage Park Assisting Living, where she had been a resident for a year

Around 150 local officials, educators and community members gathered to watch as the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground Historical Highway Marker was unveiled at the corner of Fifth and Hospital streets near Interstate 64 on Sunday.

As Mallory Noe-Payne reports, the site in Richmond recently earned a spot on the Virginia Landmarks Register.

A Richmond burial ground where an estimated 22,000 freed and enslaved Black people were interred two centuries ago may soon be recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.

Woman wants to memorialize unmarked African burial ground CHRIS SUAREZ, Richmond Times-Dispatch FacebookTwitterEmail This aerial photo shows 1305 North 5th Street, the site of an African burial ground, in Richmond , Va., on Saturday, May 1, 2021. (Daniel Sangib/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)Daniel Sangjib Min/AP RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lenora McQueen came to Richmond four years ago to learn more about her fourth great-grandmother. That’s when she found out where she was buried in the city. Sh...