The Alexandria VA Medical Center hosted their annual flag placement at Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville.

Alexandria will mark Memorial Day 2026 with a series of ceremonies and community events honoring the service members who gave their lives in defense of the United States. Originally known as ...

A cemetery dedication in Historic Alexandria Saturday morning was an important step in efforts to honor civil rights history in Virginia. A wreath was lain at the site of the Contrabands and Freedmen ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The City of Alexandria has dedicated a memorial honoring African Americans who died in the city during the Civil War. The city says the "Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery ...

Saturday night, luminaries will mark the site of a freed slaves’ cemetery in Alexandria that was forgotten for decades under a gas station. The remains of as many as 1,800 freed slaves buried during ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Residents near the Douglass Memorial Cemetery in Old Town are no longer surprised about the flooding that takes place seemingly every time it rains hard. The historically black ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WJLA) - The Alexandria Freedmen’s Cemetery was discovered in 2007, during the construction of the new Wilson Bridge. Now, a memorial is being built there to honor more than 1,800 ...