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Centering Black stories and life in all their manifestations
Black By God is a community-led news organization that aims to provide a more nuanced portrayal of the Black Experience in West Virginia and Appalachia. Our name is a riff on the colloquial phrase West ‘by God’ Virginia that claims a unique place in central Appalachia.
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WV bill would eliminate the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs and name a building after him
Senate Bill 879, introduced by the only Latino woman in the Legislature, is not the first sign that elected officials want the office gone.
WV lawmakers advance bill to let doctors involuntarily commit someone without contacting the courts
Black people are significantly more likely to be committed to psychiatric hospitals against their will.
As federal judge says third immigrant wrongly jailed in WV, jails overcrowded with ICE detainees
Gov. Patrick Morrisey has partnered with ICE to hold immigrant detainees in West Virginia jails.
