WESTLAKE — Booker T. Washington National Monument continued its Juneteenth celebration Friday with programs detailing the famous orator and author’s life as well as the lives of other enslaved ...

Read full article: Presidential fitness test returns to Virginia: schools to implement by 2026-2027 school year. FRANKLIN CO., Va. – This weekend, a historic milestone is being honored in Franklin ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The state’s Booker T. Washington Commemorative Commission held a meeting Tuesday to discuss plans for a new monument. Franklin County is where Booker T. Washington was born and ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - It’s been 160 years since the emancipation of Booker T. Washington; a Franklin County native born into slavery, who became a monumental figure in African American ...

CHARLESTON — In 1944, during the widening of U.S. 60 in the Upper Kanawha Valley, the body of Jane Ferguson, mother of Booker T. Washington, was exhumed with others from the family cemetery in Malden ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WFXR) — The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in January 1863, but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that slavery was officially abolished in Texas, ...