Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Alexandria is a myth—in fact a collection of myths and legends, sometimes competing with each other—to which the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 14—ALEXANDRIA — As educators statewide and conservative parent groups duke it out over proposed legislation to limit teaching ...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men ...

The Great Library of Alexandria remains one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world. Founded during the ...

This video is no longer available. Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling ...

The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world, remembered as a center of learning, scholarship, and intellectual exchange. Founded in ancient Egypt, it ...

It was a sweltering August day in 1939, and William "Buddy" Evans was face-to-face with a police officer in the Alexandria Free Library. Looking up from the pages of his book, the 19-year-old had one ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia has provided education to hundreds of young students each year, but did you know the story behind Samuel Tucker ...

Alexandria’s black residents were starved for books in the 1930s. Segregation reigned in this Southern town. Black children could attend a blacks-only elementary school, but were barred from the white ...