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Arts & Culture Maria Young, Aug. 29, 2025

6 New Monuments To Commemorate March To Blair Mountain

Six new sites along a 50-mile route between Charleston and Matewan, West Virginia will commemorate the 1921 Miners' March to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

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Arts & Culture Curtis Tate, Sep. 25, 2024

‘I Think It Spoke To Him’: Why James Earl Jones Sought Role In ‘Matewan’

Curtis Tate spoke to David Wohl, who at the time was an acting teacher at West Virginia State and asked Jones to come speak to his students.

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Arts & Culture Jessica Lilly, Aug. 05, 2021

Events Across the State To Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Mine Wars, Battle of Blair Mountain

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain. While the anniversary is still weeks away, Sept. 3, organizations and communities in southern West Virginia are already commemorating the centennial.

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Radio Dec. 28, 2018

December 28, 1879: Brigadier General Billy Mitchell Born in France

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell was born in France on December 28, 1879. By 1921, he’d become chief of the Army Air Service. After seeing the potential…

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WVPB News Associated Press, Jul. 26, 2016

Feds to Drop Appeal of Ruling in Blair Mountain Delisting

The Department of the Interior is dropping its appeal of a ruling that said the agency shouldn't have removed the site of the Blair Mountain labor battle…

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WVPB News Associated Press, Apr. 12, 2016

Judge: Decision to Delist Blair Mountain Was Wrong

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that the U.S. Interior Department was wrong when it removed the site of the Blair Mountain labor battle from the…

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