The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

A court appearance Monday solved one part of the mystery surrounding a Virginia man whose alleged talk of explosives landed him in a federal investigation: Russell Vane IV is alive. Vane, 42, who ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

Members of the Kekoas militia said they were alarmed when Vane ... willing to pay up to $50,000 a month to unify all militias ...

President Donald Trump issued a statement regarding the 250th Anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!” Speech.

“The militia . . . is our ultimate safety,” said Patrick Henry during the Virginia ratifying convention. “We can have no security without it. . . . The great object is, that every man ...

The year was 1775 and Virginia leaders had convened the Second Virginia Convention at Richmond — in what is now called St.