Roanoke's equity board is preparing public meetings this fall to get feedback on what specific action items the city should take.

Three new members to the Equity and Empowerment Advisory Board reenergized the conversation after months of limbo.

As Roanoke plans major upgrades to Washington Park, tensions linger over the city's history of urban planning in majority Black neighborhoods.

In recent years, a group of churchgoers has been tending to the cemetery, a "gaping wound" of Roanoke's urban renewal history.

The bible study sessions, organizers say, are but a small step in overcoming generations of institutionalized segregation in Roanoke.

Recently uncovered history — in part brought to light by The Rambler — reveals William Lavender was more likely hanged near the Wasena Bridge.

Few places in Virginia have gone through the process of acknowledging their lynchings through the Equal Justice Initiative.