On his last full day as President of the United States, Joe Biden issued pardons for Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, the late Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey and Kemba Pradia, a Richmond ...

On his final full day in office, President Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott — who was convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 1994 — and posthumously pardoned Black ...

Scott, 59, had served more than seven years in prison before putting his life back together and ultimately becoming the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in ...

Now, a year after Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, made history as Virginia’s first Black speaker of the House of Delegates, he organized a look back at what those Virginians accomplished ...

A commemorative marker will be revealed on February 8 at Singleton Way and South Witchduck Road in honor of Willis Augustus Hodges.