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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    The heart-rending and oligarchic view from ‘Coal Country’

    May 13, 2022 /

    The incendiary, heartbreaking "Coal Country," a play drawn from interviews with survivors and family members of the deadly 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, made a splash Off-Broadway. Here's a reaction to its staging for the first time in the Mountain State, 35 miles from where the tragedy fueled by corporate malfeasance that killed 29 miners occurred.

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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Points of View,  Stories

    FIRST/PERSON: On the streets in “the capital of pain”

    May 3, 2022 /

    There are mayapples unfurling on the banks of the Kanawha River in the darkness of West Virginia's capital city. There are humans sleeping there, too, on this cold and rainy April night, and we are among them.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    A West Virginia hero’s life to be showcased June 23 at 2022 FestivALL Charleston

    March 30, 2022 /

    "The Wake Up Call," a documentary about the remarkable and heroic international life of West Virginia native Dave Evans, will be screened Thursday, June 23, 2022, in West Virginia's capital city as part of the citywide FestivALL Charleston 2022.

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    Many Fights, One Big Fight

    March 30, 2022 /

    A new history of Local 1199 chronicles the history of a small, respected union that represents the overlooked and previously unrepresented workers of Local 1199. The book conveys the human longing for fairness within an often heartless industry.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    The barriers to Black West Virginians getting the mental health care they may need

    March 30, 2022 /

    barriers that impact mental health for Black West Virginians include a scarcity of Black mental health professionals and mental health resources, stigma, lack of proper mental health education, poverty, racism, substance abuse, and incarceration.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ‘Day 34 of Russia’s Cowardly Invasion of Ukraine’

    March 30, 2022 /

    'The Ukrainian fighting force has bested the Russians in every category. All the big bear can do is cowardly lob cruise missiles from a distance that destroy towns and kill innocent citizens.'

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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    10 Illuminated Thoughts About Life on Manchin Island

    December 23, 2021 /

    The stakes are high in WV senator Joe Manchin's Build Back Better gamesmanship. What happens now that he blew up negotiations — and now it looks like they're coming back together?

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Multifest still a beacon of the need for the Black press

    December 10, 2021 /

    Like many injustices Black newspapers fought head-on, solutions arose only when the Black press first drew attention to them. A look at the West Virginia Beacon Digest and the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta.

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  • Books,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ‘Desperate’ highlights fight for clean water in West Virginia coalfields

    December 10, 2021 /

    The fight for clean water is central to "Desperate," which tells the story of coal mining communities in southern West Virginia battling Massey Energy and Don Blankenship, for clean water.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    How West Virginia’s new vaccine law opens the door wider to politicizing public health

    December 10, 2021 /

    Beginning January 2022, it will be significantly easier for West Virginians to claim exemptions from employer COVID-19 vaccination mandates. That raises all sorts of red flags.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories,  The Past

    When Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs was sent to Moundsville Prison for making a speech

    October 1, 2021 /

    The story of how Socialist firebrand Eugene Debs once landed in the state penitentiary in Moundsville WV illustrates "how easy it is for Americans to vilify their own citizens and, when seized by fear or fashion, step on each other’s rights," says John W. Miller in this reprint from the Moundsville Blog.

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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Points of View,  Stories

    RE/PRINT: ‘Almost Heaven ’Til We Get There’: Black Miners and Blair Mountain

    September 10, 2021 /

    "I’m a sixth-generation West Virginian. My children are seventh-generation. My generational claim to Appalachia is subversive. It talks back to cavalier anti-Black stories of poor white redneck hillbillies and to the white people who claim an entire region as their own."

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    ELEPHANT ANKLES: Life with Long COVID

    June 7, 2021 /

    "This is a good day. I have been sick for months, but I did not die. I am happy to be here. I can do this, but I reserve the right to whine. I also reserve the right to be angry.'

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    RE/PRINT: Only 7 states have passed the CROWN Act. Could West Virginia be next?

    June 7, 2021 /

    While advocates of the CROWN Act promise they'll be back for the 2022 Legislative session, they're also looking beyond the WV Capitol to make change to confront white beauty standards in West Virginia.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    RE/PRINT: Community Seeks Police Reform After Shooting On Charleston’s West Side

    May 5, 2021 /

    On April 30, Charleston Police officers shot a 33-year-old Black man, while attempting to make an arrest on Charleston’s West Side. The incident has left many in the community wondering why police resorted to shooting the man who had brandished a knife.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    SPOTLIGHT: Who is saying what as the Opioid Trial begins

    May 5, 2021 /

    If the first day of a landmark trial involving the nation’s three largest opioid distributors is any indication, a lot of fingers will be pointed elsewhere by those distributors in the coming weeks.

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  • Climate,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    CLIMATE: “Why do you care about the climate crisis?”

    April 17, 2021 /

    The West Virginia Climate Alliance is a recently formed umbrella group that includes many key players and groups in West Virginia on the front lines of addressing climate change. So, why care about the climate crisis, anyway?

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    SPOTLIGHT: To do or not to do? What the 2020 WV Legislature passed—or didn’t

    April 17, 2021 /

    The West Virginia Legislature has concluded its 60-day session after passing nearly 300 bills. What were they doing — and not doing this session? Erin Beck of Mountain State Spotlight details what got done and didn't.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    SOCIAL/MEDIA: Recalling a life ended too soon in WV’s capital city

    April 10, 2021 /

    The shooting death of an 18-year-old student-athlete killed April 7, cast a pall over West Virginia's capital city, as yet more senseless gun violence robbed a family and community of a bright light.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Overdose deaths soar amid pandemic in West Virginia, which already had the highest rate in the U.S.

    March 25, 2021 /

    Drug overdose deaths are up more than 40% in West Virginia, an increase likely driven by the coronavirus pandemic. "People are dying at mass rates," says one Boone County administrator.

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