The West Virginia couple, who is White, were accused of severely neglecting and mistreating their five adopted Black children ...

West Virginia’s birth was an act of defiance, a bold statement against tyranny and injustice. When Virginia seceded during ...

A white couple from rural West Virginia is back behind bars after ... Black children in a barn and forcing them to work as ...

A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children, including locking some of them in a shed, and forcing them to sleep on the ...

Jeanne Kay Whitefeather was convicted of a forced labour, civil rights violations, human trafficking and child neglect. Her ...

Jeanne Whitefeather has denied locking two of her five adopted children in a shed -- despite authorities finding the teens in one back in October 2023.

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For February, also known as Black History Month, we visited the Belpre Historical Society to see the Underground Railroad Exhibit.

“Human rights violations specific to the fact that these children were targeted because of their race and they were used basically as slaves from what the indictment alleges,” per West ...

Thomas Roderick Dew, an alumnus turned professor by 1826, and by 1836, the school's thirteenth president, was recognized as one of the country's foremost experts on pro-slavery thought. Following Nat ...

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.

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