RICHMOND, Va. - Testimony before a federal grand jury about Rep. William Jefferson's role in passing an African trade bill and the influence it gave him with African leaders violated ...

Go back to Africa, all you n-----s.” This was the epitome of ignorance and racism, as it was at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and we were fighting a war 8,000 miles from home.

The African American Burial Ground contains an estimated forty bodies. It begs the question, where are the rest? During his lifetime, Jefferson owned approximately four hundred enslaved people ...

Jefferson Attorney Links Africa Business, Probe. August 13, 2005. By Allan Lengel. The attorney for Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.), whose client has been the target of an FBI corruption sting ...

Burtell M. Jefferson, who joined the District’s largely segregated police department in 1948 and launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to help Black officers advance through the ranks as he rose ...

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Transforming the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo two months after a mass shooting was about more than just adding new food products. Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Refugees in Burundi, East Africa, have agriculture friends in Port Townsend helping them replace stolen equipment they once used to till a 10-acre Kent Valley flower and vegetable farm ...

Two years later, Jefferson wrote to Condorcet about a free African American, a “worthy and respectable member of society,” whose “very elegant solutions of Geometrical problems” he had seen.

Jefferson county's first African American judge Donald Floyd "I appreciate all of the people who came out in support of me with this particular honor", Judge Floyd said.

Go back to Africa, all you n-----s.” This was the epitome of ignorance and racism, as it was at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and we were fighting a war 8,000 miles from home.

“Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently wrote. “Before the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence ...

Go back to Africa, all you n-----s.” This was the epitome of ignorance and racism, as it was at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and we were fighting a war 8,000 miles from home ...