Black History Month… The relics of ‘separate but equal’
By Lorna Hart - Special to OVP
The former Langston School which was located in Point Pleasant. (Chris Rizer | Courtesy)
Photo of the former “West Virginia Colored Institute.” (Used with permission from the WV State University Archives)
Pictured is what remains of the former “Kerrs Run Colored School.” (Shannon Scott, Meigs County Historical Society | Courtesy)
Pictured is the former Lincoln School of Gallipolis, Ohio. (Gallia County Historical Society| Courtesy)
Terms of freedom
Freedmen’s Bureau, (1865–1872): The popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to provide practical aid to four million newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.
Book project, picking their schools and remembering Claude Ball
Mark Martin
HE WROTE THE BOOK:
Zach Casto, the son of one-time Ripley High athlete Bryce Casto, is a book author at the young age of 25.
Casto’s first publication – “Rounding Third: Skills, Drills, and Best Practices in the Game of Baseball” – is out in an ebook format. Plans are for the book to eventually be available in hardcover.
For years, Casto has had a deep love for the game of baseball and it grows stronger by the day.
He played baseball at Nitro High School, where he graduated in 2014.
From there he was a part of the baseball program at West Virginia State University.
CHARLESTON If public colleges and universities in West Virginia plan to survive, especially after COVID-19 has wrecked enrollment numbers, they need to meet
CHARLESTON If public colleges and universities in West Virginia plan to survive, especially after COVID-19 has wrecked enrollment numbers, they need to meet
From staff reports
WEST LIBERTY West Liberty University, once again, has a finalist for West Virginia’s Professor of the Year award, presented annually by the Faculty Merit Foundation.
Stephen Criniti, an English professor at the university, was among the five finalists named Monday in a state-wide press release.
“It is a mark of success to be a finalist for this prestigious award and I congratulate Dr. Criniti for this achievement. He brings honor not only to himself, but to the entire College of Liberal Arts and we wish him well in the next step of the competition,” said W. Franklin Evans, WLU president.