RICHMOND, Nov. 1 -- -- Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder plans to announce his support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine on Wednesday, according to Paul Goldman, the mayor's ...

If you lived in Richmond in 2005, chances are you recall when the nation’s first Black elected governor, Douglas Wilder, became the city’s first popularly elected mayor in 60 years.

Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder shot back Wednesday at former Del. Joseph D. Morrissey in the pair’s ongoing legal dispute, accusing Morrissey of filing a lawsuit against him last month only to ...

Douglas Wilder was the first African American elected as governor in U.S. history, serving Virginia from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Wi… ...

Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder says that if he had endorsed state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds for governor in 2009, as President Barack Obama urged him to do, it would have helped weaken gun control laws ...

The poll results were released Wednesday by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. In a statement accompanying the results, former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder said the small ...

L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected black governor, told C-SPAN in an interview Thursday that improving education is more important than spending tax dollars on taking down Confederate ...

Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder knew he was “a son of Virginia” because his mother told him so. The phrase that still resonates from his inaugural address 25 years ago next month as the nation ...

Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder has filed a federal lawsuit against Virginia Commonwealth University President Michael Rao and Chief Audit and Compliance Executive Suzanne Milton ...

Douglas Wilder, the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state (Virginia) since Reconstruction, came out of retirement in 2005 to become the popularly elected mayor of Richmond ...

Earlier this year, I issued a call for the commonwealth to confront and reassess its disproportionate support of its historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). I wrote a letter to the ...