An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.

As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, he has announced a series of last-minute commutations and pardons, ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott was pardoned Sunday by President Joe Biden for a felony drug conviction Scott received in ...

President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to ...

Members of the General Assembly are debating what is required for parents who home school their children. Senator Stella ...

‘Grateful’ Don Scott reflects on General Assembly session as Virginia's first Black Speaker of the House Biden on Friday announced that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people ...

President Joe Biden issued a pardon Sunday of Virginia House Speaker Don Scott for a 1994 non-violent drug offense for which ...

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott for a 30-year-old drug conviction. Scott, a Portsmouth Democrat, was among five people Biden pardoned Sunday.

One of those pardons went to Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Don Scott. In a statement ... serving in the General Assembly, and then being unanimously elected as the first African ...