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MLK’s vision yet to be fulfilled

By Gabriella BrownNewsroom@DominionPost.com Marjorie Fuller was just 10 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Fuller, director of the WVU Center for Black Culture and Research, was too young at the time to participate in the civil rights movement but remembers ...

Rittenhouse receives MLK Jr. Achievement Award for his work

Picture the Hough Park swimming pool in Mannington, Marion County. It’s   one of those glorious, Technicolor summer days in the middle of the 20th century. Marco Polo and cannonball splashes. Pretty girls who really, really don’t want their hair wet. Their would-be ...

2020 in Pictures

The Dominion Post's top five pictures of the year A lot has happened in the last twelve months, and The Dominion Post's photographers have been out in the community capturing as much of is at the can. Based on social media data, specifically Instagram likes, we were able to determine some ...

79th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

University marks bombing with annual remembrance at USS W.Va. mast and bell Newsroom@DominionPost.com  Keynote speaker Andrew Chancey did not attend WVU’s remembrance ceremony commemorating the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in person Monday, as he tested ...

Test W.Va. knowledge at virtual trivia night

Event is fundraiser for Saving Historical Places Grant fund Newsroom@DominionPost.com  The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia will host a virtual West Virginia Trivia Night fundraiser at 7 p.m. Tuesday, to build its new Saving Historical Places Grant fund. The grant program ...

Postcast 43 – October 30, 2020

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