BBG Founder/Publisher Crystal Good on the BBG delivery route
5,000 copies have been distributed across West Virginia!
BBG Founder/Publisher Crystal Good on the BBG delivery route. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Dec. 2021 📸 by Ashley York
Our second print issue is in the world!
5,000 copies have been distributed across West Virginia with a USPO mailing of 100 to Appalachian ex-pats across America including one international recipient. We are slowly getting all of our print content online and we are proud of this issue.
BBG is thankful to the many hands you helped create this issue and are distributing. We learned so much and are rethinking what is possible as a publisher as we listen to the information needs of our community. We have a greater awareness of the news landscape across West Virginia (because we saw for ourselves) and the sad awareness that so many Main Streets across West Virginia are absent of storefront Black businesses and shoppers.
BBG is committed to Black visibility across West Virginia.
If you are able please support BBG with a tax-deductible donation today. We have a fiscal sponsor Tiny News and can comply with all tax requirements. ~ BBG
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