President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the ...

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

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.

Through tears, Scott, who served seven years in prison ... pardons for officials who have been targets of President-elect Donald Trump and could be prosecuted in the new administration.

On his last full day in the White House, President Joe Biden has pardoned Virginia Speaker of the House Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison after a 1994 conviction on ...