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. ..…