12 News is honoring Black history this February, which includes the achievements of Charlene Marshall, the former mayor of ...

HUNTINGTON — Joseph Autumn Slash, West Virginia’s first Black superintendent, was honored Saturday during a celebration at the Cabell County Board of Education.

The mayor of Charleston, West Virginia, has proposed a $15 minimum wage for city workers. She is also looking into providing low-cost housing options for mental health professionals.

Dwight Priestly holds the previous state record black crappie that measured 17.76 inches and 3.16 pounds caught in Woodrum Lake in Sod, West Virginia, on Aug. 8, 2024. WVDNR ...

PARKERSBURG — West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey was in Parkersburg on Thursday and met with local officials from the area at the Wood County Resiliency Center. Officials included ...

Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor” on their farm, court documents show.

Wiley’s lawyer, Sam Petsonk, a West Virginia labor attorney with a long history of fighting for miners with black lung, explained to In These Times that more reinstatements may be on the way. He ...

Founded when education was segregated, West Virginia’s Black universities won’t change under Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s DEI ban.

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long-serving Virginia state senator who in 1977 became the first Black mayor of Richmond, ushering in an era of African American leadership in the ...

Judge Akers condemned the couple for relocating the five Black siblings, aged five to 16, to West Virginia in 2023, where they were forced to sleep on the floor and use buckets as toilets.

A West Virginia couple, Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Lantz, 63, ... 63, are facing a slew of new charges related to the severe abuse of their adopted Black children.