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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    TRAILER: A Peek at “Bye-Bye, Stonewall” mini-doc

    July 15, 2020 /

    Here's a peek from the trailer to WestVirginiaVille's upcoming mini-documentary, "Bye-Bye, Stonewall," on the years-long backstory on how a school in a black neighborhood in West Virginia's capital city finally got free of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson's name and mug.

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  • NatureGram,  Photos/Video,  Poetics,  Readings,  Stories,  The Past

    READINGS | A Stroll Deep into a West Virginia Marsh

    July 10, 2020 /

    If it’s true we are mother, father, sister, brother, related all to all, maybe that's one way to comprehend and befriend the ten thousand things. The hundreds of voices, cries, and songs rising from this manifold marsh.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEO: When the Confederate Flag Cuts and Runs

    July 7, 2020 /

    We direct your amusement to this Tiffany Thouartdope Finkton insta-rap. She made it after capturing a special moment outside the Kaoard of Education meeting to consider renaming Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Charleston WV. The fellow who arrived with a Confederate flag was definitely not reading the room.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    VIEW FROM THE PLAYGROUND: On Changing Stonewall Jackson Middle School’s Name

    July 5, 2020 /

    As adults decide the future of Stonewall Jackson Middle School's name at meeting Monday, July 6, 2020, we visited a playground in Charleston WV to find out what a group of students thought about the idea.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Points of View,  Stories

    POINTS of VIEW | ‘If You’re Silent About Your Pain’

    July 3, 2020 /

    A LETTER TO NEUTRAL COLLEAGUES: "I realize you may be actually confused about whether blacks are offended or feel pain from reminders of that dark period. Zora Neale Neale Hurston once said: "If you're silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." So, I will clarify that we are offended. We are in pain."

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ‘ALEXANDRIA SPEAKS’: Why Stonewall Jackson Middle School Needs a New Name

    July 2, 2020 /

    Why rename a school long named for a Confederate general? Watch a 13-year-old student in Charleston WV tell why in an impassioned plea to the adults considering whether to rename her Stonewall Jackson Middle School.

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    NATUREGRAM 1 | Sheltering-in-Nature during a Pandemic

    June 26, 2020 /

    Could you use some Canadian geese, chuckling water and scenes of nature not trying to sell you something? Here is a WestVirginiaVille Public Service Mental Health Pandemic Video.

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  • Editor's Notepad,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    STRIKE THIS WAY: A Crowdsourced Look at the 2018 WV Teacher’s Strike

    June 24, 2020 /

    We hereby enter these videos into the Multimedia Historical Records of the Great State of WestVirginiaVille. How Mitch got Ditched: a crowdsourced look at the beginnings of a purge.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    UNMASKED! |A Pandemic Photo Project

    June 18, 2020 /

    Yes, of course you should still be wearing a mask in public. A second wave of infections? We're not even through the first. Here are some masked inspirations—followed by their unmasked selves.

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    PODCAST | A Coal River Homeless Camp Tale of Survival

    June 17, 2020 /

    Homelessness is something most people see on a regular basis here in West Virginia. But what about the homelessness we don't see? Kyle Vass takes us into a St. Albans homeless camp at the heart of community fight over their riverside existence.

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    OP-ED LIMERICKS | An Absolute Artist at Failing

    June 15, 2020 /

    West Virginia writer and artist Colleen Anderson's Molotov limericks are aimed straight at the softest spots of Donald Trump's long-haul campaign to sow division, distrust, and discord across the land. We've animated a crop of three of them, yanked right from the headlines.

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  • Photos/Video,  Unscripted

    UNSCRIPTED No. 1| Trump’s Good Karma

    June 13, 2020 /

    You must admit he has amazingly good karma. His entire life he has never been called to account. "Trump's Good Karma" is the first in a WestVirginiaVille video series called "Unscripted."

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    A Public Service Announcement from the Juggling Community

    June 11, 2020 /

    We hereby present to you "A Juggler's Guide to Covid-19," as we believe this will be the first—and the last —of those you will see during the current pandemic.

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  • Events,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    DRIVE-BY LOVE: Portrait of a Pop-Up Pride and Black Lives Matter Parade

    June 9, 2020 /

    There were balloons and streamers. There were rainbow flags. And lots of honks. A video/photographic portrait of a literally moving Pride and Black Lives Matter parade in Huntington WV on june6.2020

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  • Photos/Video,  Q-and-A

    STEPHEN SMITH | Part 1: On His Long-Distance, Grass-roots Run for Governor

    June 8, 2020 /

    As part of a new WestVirginiaVille series called, "Conversations," we sit down with 2020 West Virginia gubernatorial Democratic candidate Stephen Smith as he winds down a two-year, grass-roots campaign to upend the long reign of what his campaign dubs the "good old boy network" in state governance.

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  • Photos/Video,  Stories

    STEPHEN SMITH | Part 2: Why We Endorse Stephen Smith for WV Governor

    June 8, 2020 /

    Why WestVirginiaVille is holding up its small megaphone with a big message: West Virginia is in sore need of systemic change. And Stephen Smith and his campaign are the only ones who seems to have thought deeply about how to get that ball rolling.

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    Events,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Urban Appalachia

    VIDEO: ‘They Know Who the Thugs Are”

    June 2, 2020 /

    Within the police department itself, there are some thugs and gangsters, says Rev. Matthew Watts. "And the police have to police themselves. They know who the thugs are! They know who the gangsters are!"

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  • Events,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  Urban Appalachia

    VIDEO: A Saturday of Protests in Huntington WV

    June 2, 2020 /

    What it's like to be a black man in Trump's America. Why communal effort is needed. How racism is woven into "the American quilt." PART 2 of our coverage of a Huntington WV rally protesting the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    WATCH THIS: What Needs To Be Said About George Floyd’s Murder

    May 31, 2020 /

    We were looking for a quote at a Huntington, West Virginia rally in protest of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis policemen. We got far more than a quote.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  Urban Appalachia

    A video visit to Covid-19 testing in an African-American community

    May 27, 2020 /

    We need far more testing to size up Covid-19, and also why it disproportionally affects low-income and minority communities. Here's a video drop-in on a recent drive-up testing site in Huntington WV.

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