<div id="subtitle">Former Va. Gov. Douglas Wilder urges Obama to fire DNC chief Tim Kaine, state's ex-governor</div><div><p>Democratic former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is urging President Barack Obama to fire Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, another former Virginia governor.</p><p&gt ...

<div id="subtitle">Va. Democrats want their candidate for governor to share more than a stage with Obama</div><div><p>Virginia Democrat R. Creigh Deeds hopes a visit Thursday from President Barack Obama will pull his campaign out of a midsummer slump in a governor's race framed largely by hot ...

<div id="subtitle">Virginia newspaper expresses regret for role in state's fight to maintain school segregation</div><div><p>A Virginia newspaper expressed regret Thursday for supporting a systematic campaign by the state's white political leaders to maintain separate public schools for blacks and whites in the 1950s.</p ...

<div id="subtitle">Obama's victory shifts black identity - `to be seen simply as Americans'</div><div><p>Shortly after leaving the voting booth, 70-year-old community activist Donald E. Robinson had a thought: "Why do I have to be listed as African-American? Why can't I just be American?"</p&gt ...