Roanoke College is taking a significant step towards acknowledging its past with the upcoming installation of a new memorial dedicated to the enslaved laborers whose contributions were crucial in shaping the college’s legacy and buildings.

Roanoke College will hold a press conference at noon Friday with artist Sandy Williams IV, who will unveil the design for a major work of art on campus that will memorialize enslaved laborers connected to the college and Roanoke County, the college said.

People gathered Saturday at the Wells Fargo Building for the tenth Roanoke 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.

The PGA Tour has released its 2025 schedule and it looks a lot like this year's schedule.

The service kicks off National Police Week.

Collin Morikawa is out of the Memorial.

Some events have been changed, others have been canceled

Celebrities, professional athletes and other high-profile Twitter users are once again being verified by the social media platform and they don’t know why the blue check marks reappeared — nor do they seem too happy about it.

A memorial service was held at 3:30 p.m. at John Paul Jones arena on Saturday, Nov. 19 to honor the lives of the UVA shooting victims.

Beams from the North Tower of the World Trade Center make up the 9-11 Memorial that stands tall in Salem.

Brendan Steele finished with four consecutive birdies and shot a 6-under 64 to take the first-round lead in the Zozo Championship.

The Lynchburg Fire Department gathered Tuesday to remember the lives lost in the line of duty.

Bill Price made a promise to his godfather, a New York Firefighter, that he would never forget the lives lost on 9/11.

The fundraiser was held in honor of a baby who had a congenital heart defect and died in 2019.

This week’s new entertainment releases include music from the union of The Roots’ Black Thought and super-producer Danger Mouse, a PBS “Frontline” investigation into women’s rights in Afghanistan a year after the U_S_ withdrawal and Jamie Foxx playing a vampire hunter in “Day Shift.”.

Roanoke's Vice-Mayor Trish White-Boyd is pushing to build a statue of Roanoke-native, Henrietta Lacks.

Former U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau has become the latest big name to sign on with the Saudi-funded breakaway LIV Golf series.

Ever dream of taking a day excursion to Normandy? Children can experience the history and culture of northern France, right here in Bedford, at this year’s WWII Day Camp at the National D-Day Memorial.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed are the latest players to join the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational series.

Cameron Smith doesn't have a great history at the Memorial.

Hideki Matsuyama is out of the Memorial because of paint on the face of his 3-wood.

U.S. President Joe Biden is joining Pope Francis and a leading Sunni imam in calling for greater global cooperation to fight the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and other world crises.

The Detroit-area high school where four students were fatally shot has reopened for the first time since the Nov. 30 tragedy.

A court in Moscow has granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russia’s rights groups, independent media and opposition supporters.

More than 80,000 soldiers have still not returned.

Rickie Fowler will have to sit out another major this year.

One of the longest days in golf just got a little longer.

So much about the Memorial felt as though golf was back to normal.

One minute, Jon Rahm was headed for a blowout victory in the Memorial.

Patrick Cantlay made it through a long day at Memorial by setting an early target.

The feud between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka is ongoing at the Memorial, even though only one of them is there.

Collin Morikawa has the early lead at the Memorial on a day only half the field finished.

It almost seems impossible, but we’ve been living with COVID-19 in our lives for almost a year, and tragically, some of us have lost grandparents, parents, siblings and friends due to this unforgiving virus. As the United States is approaching 500,000 deaths since early 2020, it seems that many of us have experienced a COVID-related loss. So, in honor of your loved one’s memory, we’re asking that you share a photo of them and tell us their story. We’ve all dealt with grief in our lives, but losing a loved one to the COVID-19 pandemic is especially hard, since we all can’t celebrate their lives like we normally would. Hopefully sharing your loved ones with others virtually can bring you the tiniest bit of comfort in these uncertain times.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaking at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2021. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is hosting a memorial on Tuesday evening to remember and honor the lives lost to the coronavirus in cities and towns across the country. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris lead COVID-19 Memorial event The soon-to-be president and vice president will lead this ceremony by lighting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Posted by WSLS 10 / WSLS.com on Tuesday, January 19, 2021President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will lead this ceremony by lighting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.Cities and towns around the country are invited to illuminate buildings and ring church bells at 5:30 p.m. in a national moment of unity and remembrance.

Jon Rahm, of Spain, right, is congratulated by Jack Nicklaus after winning the Memorial golf tournament, Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Dublin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Jon Rahm, of Spain, celebrates after the 18th hole to win the Memorial golf tournament, Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Dublin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)DUBLIN, Ohio Jon Rahm won the Memorial to join Seve Ballesteros as the only Spaniards to reach No. Replay of Rahm's chip appeared to show the ball moved ever so slightly when he placed his lob wedge behind it. The chip was similar but from a different angle to Tiger Woods chipping in from behind the 16th green when he won the Memorial for the fifth time in 2012. Norlander and Hughes tied at 3-under 285, but the spot went to Hughes because he had the better world ranking.

Tony Finau hits from the second tee during the second round of the Memorial golf tournament, Friday, July 17, 2020, in Dublin, Ohio. That kind of score isn't happening at Muirfield Village, where the greens are getting faster by the hour. The way Muirfield Village is playing, both are impressive. Woods, a five-time winner at Muirfield Village, has never missed the cut in 17 previous times at the Memorial. But I battled back well.Palmer played the Workday Charity Open last week at Muirfield Village and missed the cut.

It will go to Royal St. Georges next summer. Its just very strange times for us at the minute, isnt it?Lowry said he has never seen the lunar landscape of Royal St. Georges. Id love if we were playing in front of 40,000 or 50,000 people this week in St. Georges, he said. For the week of the U.S. Open, golf was in its second week of returning from the pandemic, at Harbour Town. So everything that I miss or that I wont get to do this week, Im sure Ill get to do next year.

DUBLIN, Ohio The PGA Tour returned five weeks ago with some of its strongest fields. He chose not to go to Mexico City for a World Golf Championship, then skipped three straight tournaments in Florida before golf was halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That will give him at least one start, and possibly two if he plays a World Golf Championship in Tennessee, before heading into the first major of a reconfigured year. The PGA Championship is Aug. 6-9 at Harding Park in San Francisco, where Woods won a World Golf Championship in 2005. Woods has played only three times this season on the PGA Tour, starting with his record-tying 82nd victory at the Zozo Championship in Japan.

JERUSALEM The chairman of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Memorial said Sunday he will be stepping down after 27 years. Shalev guided a period of dramatic transformation at one of the world's foremost Holocaust remembrance institutions. He also oversaw the creation of an international school for Holocaust studies and an institute for Holocaust research. Yad Vashem is an almost sacred institution in Israel, where students, soldiers and company outings tour regularly and where the country holds its annual Holocaust remembrance day ceremony. In 2015, Yad Vashem challenged the accuracy of a claim by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader persuaded the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate 6 million Jews.

ROANOKE, Va. Roanokes Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial became the starting point for a social justice march in memory of George Floyd on Sunday. Approximately a hundred people gathered at Kings statue, many of whom held signs that said, Black Lives Matter. The group marched from the memorial directly to the Roanoke Police Department. Protesters have demonstrated against police brutality in front of the Roanoke Police Department daily for more than a week. Demonstration organizer Tatiana Druant said the march aims to encourage city leaders to budget less money for police and more money for education. We can all sweat and scream, but nothing is going to change unless we take direct control of our system, the system that is supposed to be here for us, Druant said.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. Sen. Amanda Chase, who is currently the sole Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, is denouncing the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond. According to a release from her campaign, Chase voiced her opposition from Richmonds Monument Avenue on Wednesday. Removing the Robert E. Lee statue is a cowardly capitulation to the looters and domestic terrorists, said Senator Chase. Other Virginia GOP lawmakers are also speaking out against the removal of the statue. The Governors decision to remove the Lee statue from Monument Avenue is not in the best interests of Virginia.