Clay’s campaign manager fumed of a “deliberate consipracy,” and delegates quickly sought a Southern vice presidential candidate to balance the ticket. . John Tyler, a Virginia delegate, was nominated unanimously. But his states’-rights, pro-slavery views put him at odds with the..…
Billboards reading 75,000 Confederates of color. have appeared Missouri, and one fourth-grade Virginia history textbook asserted that thousands of Southern blacks Confederate ranks.. ..…
Wilson, of Mississippi, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, Louis Guirola, Jr., retired.. Donald Wright, of Virginia, Career Member of Senior Executive Service, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of United States of America to..…
The first of these will be breakfast on Sept 25 at the home of Mayor John and Virginia Dailey, featuring Southern Living Editor Chief Sid Evans. ..…
(Among Southern states, only West Virginia and Georgia went for the Georgian who occupied the Oval Office.) The Sunbelt, that vast southern expanse from Florida to California, would prove to be a stronghold of Republican loyalty for decades to come. ..…
Refusing to bear arms against their Southern brethren, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee seceded. . ..…
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia Bishop James B. ..…
SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 2, 2015 - A husband and wife kill 14 people at a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino in Southern California before dying in a shootout with police. . VIRGINIA BEACH, May 31, 2019 - Just before his co-workers clock out for the weekend, a city engineer opens fire at..…
Warren pitted companies that want to mine a massive deposit of uranium beneath the ground in Pittsylvania County, near Virginia’s southern border, against the state. Virginia lawmakers first approved a ban on uranium mining in 1982. . The plaintiffs in the case argued the mining..…
David Platt, former president of International Mission Board and pastor at McLean Bible Church Virginia, speaks at Pastor's Conference at Southern Baptist Convention on Monday, June 10, 2019, Birmingham, Ala.. ..…
On Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia. . ..…
Congress opted to abolish the international slave trade at the in 1808, vast domestic trade, relocated more than million enslaved people from upper southern states like Maryland and Virginia to the cotton fields of Deep South. ..…
Southern Command announced the hospital ship would depart from Norfolk, Virginia, June and sail to Latin America and Central America to address the humanitarian fallout from Venezuela 's political and economic crisis... ..…
Southern education worker organizing . Beginning in West Virginia in 2017, history-making massive worker education actions began to take place in K-12 public schools — strikes, sickouts, walkouts, walk-ins and stay-aways — in states that also prohibit public employee organizing. . ..…
University of Virginia . Furman University (Southern Conference) . Clemson University . ..…
The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention, on the 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight-eight, having declared that the powers granted them under the said Constitution were derived..…
Frank Volk is Chief Judge of United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, where he has served since his in 2015. ..…
Another researcher, Virginia Hutton Estabrook, a Georgia Southern University professor of anthropology, told NBC News: “One of the ways that male and female skeletons are different is the pelvis. ..…
If there are more indictments to be brought by the U.S. attorneys’ offices in the Southern District of New York, Washington D.C., the Eastern District of Virginia, and possibly others, it is important for them to bring the charges as soon as possible. ..…
Virginia Natural Gas and Sequent are both owned by Southern Company Gas, and because they are affiliates, SCC must approve any relationship to make sure it's fair to the utility's customers. ..…
This is not just a Virginia phenomenon, it is a Southern phenomenon. . ..…
The state’s east and southeast have more in common with West Virginia, including a shared Appalachian heritage. Western and southwestern Kentucky feel much more conventionally Southern. ..…
It is believed that Tennessee is the first of America’s southern states—also including the Carolinas, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama—to include trans people in its hate crime laws. . ..…
From Sunday night to early Monday, the snow is projected to continue to shift eastward but may take a more narrow swath through Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, northern Maryland, the southern tier of New York state, New Jersey and northern Delaware. . ... It is possible that..…
Racial and ethnic minorities now make up over 20 percent of the entire rural population in 10 southern states, from Florida to Virginia. . ..…
Cross-disability activism emerged in groups such as the Disabled Miners and Widows of Southern West Virginia, a group of mainly African American men and women activists in 1967 who organized rallies and rolling wildcat strikes to demand better pensions and medical benefits from the United..…
Obama even has a good chance of winning southern states like Virginia and North Carolina that no Democratic presidential candidate has won in decades. ..…
A Black preacher from Southampton County in southern Virginia, Turner learned to read the Bible at an early age and claimed to have seen visions of a holy war between the slaves and their owners. ..…
It foreshadowed a host of moves by Southern politicians in states like Alabama, Arkansas, and Virginia to oppose the integration of public schools. . ... In 2016, for example, a Virginia district stripped Byrd's name from a middle school. ..…
Bruce Smith – Southern Student Organizing Committee , Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee, 1964-1969, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia . ... Kimberly Thomas McNair, PhD – Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California . ..…
West Virginia teen has become African-American legislator, and in one of his first legislative acts, Republican is proposing his state chip in funds to help build President Donald Trump's wall on the southern border. . Caleb Hanna, student studying economics who still lives in his dorm at..…
The species Lucilla cuprina ordinarily lives in humid southern states, from Virginia to parts of California. ..…
Between 1985 and 2015, in the aggregate, mountaintop removal cleared 1,120 square miles of land area around the size of Rhode Island southern West Virginia, Kentucky, the western edge of Virginia, and the northwest tip of Tennessee, according to Duke University mapping project using..…
You can read explanation of the in Southern Environmental Law Center to Michael Dowd with Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality.. ..…
WASHINGTON (CN) – Forty years ago, the largest uranium deposit in North America was discovered under the sleepy Appalachian foothills of Southern Virginia. . ..…
Powell Jr., dominant figure on Supreme Court whose voice remained calm amid even the fiercest constitutional tempests, died at his Richmond yesterday. ..…
Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of West Virginia: . “A federal grand jury has charged a Justice on the state’s highest court with numerous and serious federal crimes,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. ..…
But losing black voters—even if it’s just a few percentage points—could disadvantage the party in southern states like Virginia and North Carolina, where overwhelming black support is required to stay competitive. ..…
CSGS is made up of 200 graduate schools across 15 states in the southern region of the United States. Out of 38 finalists, including participants from University of Virginia, Texas A&M University, University of Georgia, and Auburn University, Florida State’s Ingrole placed first overall. ...…
In 2012, Koch foundations sent six- or seven-figure donations to 12 colleges and universities, including big-name schools such Southern Methodist University Texas, West Virginia University, Florida State University, Utah State University, Kansas State University and University of Arizona....…
But the 2,500 members of this Bible- believing, tradition-respecting Southern Baptist church in southern Virginia have embraced everything else about the Rev. ..…
One of the fiercest battles ever waged over Supreme Court nominee ended yesterday as Senate rejected the nomination of Judge Robert H. ..…
What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do in letter to Horace Greeley ... ..…