MORGANTOWN – You can learn a lot on a road trip. Especially when you superimpose said map in relation to Juneteeth. Charlene Marshall can explain. Morgantown is hardly in the Heart of Dixie, yet it is located just below the Mason-Dixon line. And that spot on the map, below that ...
by Anitra Hamilton The Morgantown/Kingwood Branch of the NAACP appreciates this opportunity to publicize our work with residents of Monongalia and Preston counties. Founded in 1909 in response to violence against African Americans around the country, the NAACP (National ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial has been adapted from one that was originally published June 19, 2022. Juneteenth commemorates the day Gen. Gordan Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, technically freeing the last of the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two years before, ...
by Susan Brown On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed legislation that made Juneteenth (June 19) a federal holiday, commemorating the historical acknowledgement of a day celebrated by Black Americans since 1866. Juneteenth — also called “Juneteenth Day,” ...
Today is an odd confluence of holidays: The beloved perennial Father’s Day and the new-ish (at least to the official registry of national holidays) Juneteenth. We, of course, wish all fathers and father-figures a happy Father’s Day. As for Juneteeth, this is only its second year ...
Morgantown is hardly in the Heart of Dixie — yet it is located just below the Mason-Dixon Line. And that spot on the map, below that demarcation, as Morgantown’s former mayor Charlene Marshall found out, has implications that are just as sociopolitical as they are ...