Governor’s Mansion, Capitol Now Open For Free, Guided Tours
The West Virginia Governor’s Mansion – fully decorated for the holiday season – is now open to the public for free holiday tours.
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Racial Inequality
How The Pandemic Exposed America's Disdain For Marginalized People
More than one million Americans have died from COVID-19. Some groups of folks died at much higher rates than others. And those deaths tended to follow lines of race, class, age and disability. A new book digs deeper; it’s titled "Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass." It’s written by Sarah Jones, a reporter at New York Magazine who grew up in Appalachia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsW.Va. Prisons Data Show Significant Racial Disparity in Recidivist Life Sentencing
A Freedom of Information Request filed by WVPB which was used to analyze sentencing data in the state, showed 20 percent of people who have been sentenced to life in prison under the state’s three-strike law are Black men. That’s one out of every five cases in a state where Black people make up less than 4 percent of the population.
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Much of the recent work of our Us & Them team has focused on our day-to-day experience as we live through a global pandemic. But we need to shine our…
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