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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‘ALEXANDRIA SPEAKS’: Why Stonewall Jackson Middle School Needs a New Name
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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STRIKE THIS WAY: A Crowdsourced Look at the 2018 WV Teacher’s Strike
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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EDITOR’S NOTEPAD: Mitch Gets Moved & WV Can’t Wait Begins a Movement
By Jove, West Virginia voters did indeed "Move Mitch, Get Out the Way." Meanwhile, the WV Can't Wait campaign of Stephen Smith came up short, but the start of its "movement" did not.
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DRIVE-BY LOVE: Portrait of a Pop-Up Pride and Black Lives Matter Parade
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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VIDEO: ‘They Know Who the Thugs Are”
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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VIDEO: A Saturday of Protests in Huntington WV
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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A video visit to Covid-19 testing in an African-American community
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.
