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Rep. McClellan gives remarks at a podium in front of American flags

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McClellan proposes federal recognition for Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia

Sean McGoey

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November 25, 2024

The General Assembly passed state recognition in 2010.

A woman in Native American dress and holding a feather fan dances at the Nansemond Indian Nation powwow.

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Virginia Beach considers land acknowledgement to recognize Native Americans

Cianna Morales

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November 22, 2024

City leaders do not have a plan or timeline for voting to formally adopt the statement.

Full-scale clay model of civil rights figure Barbara Johns at artist Steven Weitzman's studio.

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Brown v. Board scholarship committee considers expanding eligibility

Megan Pauly

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November 15, 2024

Updated Dec. 6: The committee met to discuss out-of-state schools.

A Black woman wearing a dark suit and a blue shirt stands outside a former Colonial schoolhouse that has been converted into a museum.

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A complicated history of slavery, resilience at a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children

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November 4, 2024

Public tours at the Williamsburg Bray School are expected to begin in 2025.

Robert Welch, the founder and head of the John Birch Society, in his Belmont, Mass., office in 1961.

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'Traitors within': How one group tried to radicalize the American right in the '60s

Nellie Gilles

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November 4, 2024

In today's political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they're nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch Society built a movement around them.

Exterior image of a large brick building with castle-like turrets.

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Richmond’s Black History Museum joins UNESCO slavery education network

Lyndon German

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October 16, 2024

The museum was one of four American sites chosen for the inaugural class.

A gold star is attached next to a name on the Virginia War Memorial's "missing in action wall," identifying Hubert Yeary as someone previously missing whose remains have since been found.

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Virginia War Memorial honors 6 Virginians formerly missing in action

Billy Shields

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September 27, 2024

Their remains were found in worldwide conflict zones and identified in the past year.

Photo shows a machine pistol that was made in Nazi Germany in 1941. It has a collapsible stock with a leather strap and is made entirely of metal. The gun came out of the Chesterfield County Police Department’s evidence room.

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How did a WWII-era gun spend decades in a Chesterfield evidence room?

Billy Shields

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September 19, 2024

Mystery surrounds the provenance of the firearm from Nazi Germany.

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