The submission period for the 2025 PBS Kids Writers Contest has concluded.
Nominate an exceptional West Virginia teacher today!
On Demand
On Demand
Watch locally produced documentaries & more.
On Demand
On Demand
West Virginia Morning
Inside Appalachia
West Virginia Week
Mountain Stage
Us & Them
The Legislature Today
Send us your comments and questions.
Stream our board meetings.
Check out the latest WVPB news.
Sign up for our newsletter and get weekly updates.
Meet the WVPB staff.
WV Educational Broadcasting Authority, the WVPB Foundation, and the Friends of WVPB.
Come work with us!
Friends of WVPB nominations underway through April 18, 2025!
Sponsor impactful and engaging media and entertainment.
Use your IRA to make a gift to WVPB.
Become a member with your gift of $1,000 or more.
In most cases, a novel or biography inspires a film. But for journalist and author WilHaygood, the sequence has been dramatically different. A November 7th, 2008 article by Haygood in The Washington Post inspired the Lee Daniels film The Butler and then Haygood went back to write the book, The Butler: A Witness to History.
On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 WilHaygood spoke at the University of Charleston as part of the school’s Speaker Series. Here is Haygood’s talk in it entirety. We apologize that the audio is slightly overmodulated. Do not adjust your speakers.
