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They Are Not Redrawing Maps. They Are Redrawing Who Counts.
Who Taught You That By Black Appalachian Coalition America keeps asking Black people to believe in a democracy that repeatedly reorganizes itself around our exclusion. Every few years, they hold […]
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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’s John Ellison, Who Wrote ‘Some Kind of Wonderful,’ Honored in Welch
By Matthew Young | Charleston Gazette-Mail John Ellison, best known for writing ‘Some Kind of Wonderful,” returns to Welch The City of Welch welcomed one of their own back to […]
