The opening episode of Carl Sagan ’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria.

The 81st anniversary of the Alexandria Library sit-in will be virtual this year, as the Alexandria Black History Museum in Virginia is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Alexandria Library is hosting a first-of-its-kind event Saturday with a goal of bringing neighborhoods together to help fill gaps in the documented history of Alexandria's ...

Five young African American men sat reading at separate tables in Alexandria’s new whites-only library on Queen Street. They had just been refused library cards; in 1939, that was a privilege ...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black ...

The Robert Robinson Library closed in 1962, and today, it is the home of the Alexandria Black History Museum. The museum is the first site totally devoted to the city's African-American history.

The Robinson Library closed in 1962, and today is the home of the Alexandria Black History Museum. The groundbreaking sit-in is chronicled in a documentary called “Out of Obscurity,” which was ...

All the library branches in Alexandria have one available. “We want to encourage the community to become more eco-friendly and we want to focus on the eco-city Alexandria initiatives.

Alexandria Library executive director Rose Dawson sat down with 7News at noon on Wednesday to explain more of Tucker's history. Watch the full conversation in the media player above.

In ancient world the Library at Alexandria, Egypt was the meeting place where philosophical, spiritual, and cosmological teachings met to create a vital cultural environment. But the Library ...