“Colored People: A Memoir” follows the coming-of-age story of literary critic and professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., as a young black man in Piedmont, West Virginia. This memoir offers insight into how ...

The second class of inductees in the Fayetteville High School Sports Hall of Fame (FHSSHOF) will be honored on Saturday, July 5 during the Welcome Home Reunion in Fayetteville. The induction ceremony ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WOAY) - May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan Massacre and the Battle of the Tug. Both ...

Today is Monday, May 19, the 139th day of 2025. There are 226 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 19, 1920, ten people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who were led by a ...

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. May 18, 1955: While pitching for ...

“This year marks 25 years the Award winning Matewan Drama Group will recreate one of the most pivotal events in American Labor History,” Blackburn Paterino told 13 News in an exclusive interview. “The ...

Kenzie New Walker, executive director of Matewan’s West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, attests that Council grants “have enabled us to create new permanent exhibits, support Appalachian authors, and ...

Posted: February 7, 2025 | Last updated: February 7, 2025 Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square.

Founded by Davis and co-directed with his colleague Rev. Caitlin Ware — likewise a West Virginia native and a recent graduate of Duke University’s divinity school — From Below is attempting to turn ...