RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In honor of her 160th birthday, Maggie Lena Walker will be celebrated in Richmond with several events held throughout the month of July. Walker was a civil rights activist, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Maggie Lena Walker will be commemorated by the National Park Service for her 160th birthday this July. Starting Friday, July 5, at 5 p.m. the Maggie L. Walker National Historic ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Maggie ...

Ethan Bullard, museum curator at the National Park Service's Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, highlights a valuable item that protected the pioneering businesswoman's valuables. As the ...

Descendants of Maggie Walker insist that the statue planned in her honor mustn’t be overshadowed by a towering oak, according to her great-grandson. Johnny Mickens says that it was the dying wish of ...

Genevieve Siegal-Hawley and Paul Fleisher suggest that the Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies dumb down its application process in order to admit more blacks, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The National Park Service has scheduled events this weekend through Tuesday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maggie L. Walker, the pioneering businesswoman. An ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Days ahead of her 100th birthday, CBS 6 sat down with Virginia Smith. "Right now I’m 99. In a few days I’ll be 100," Smith said. "I tell you, I have really enjoyed life." Smith, a ...

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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Grammy buzz at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School was rather concentrated on one person Monday morning: recording artist and graduate Lucy Dacus. For those who taught her or went ...