At a news conference, on Feb. 21, 2024 at the West Virginia Capitol Complex in Charleston, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and other law enforcement officials unveilded Project Emotional Intelligence, funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The project will provide in-person training for more than 4,500 officers throughout the state during the next three years. The program is administered by Dunbar-based Mountain State Educational Services Cooperative, in partnership with TalentSmartEQ of San Diego, Calif.
At a news conference, on Feb. 21, 2024 at the West Virginia Capitol Complex in Charleston, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and other law enforcement officials unveilded Project Emotional Intelligence, funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The project will provide in-person training for more than 4,500 officers throughout the state during the next three years. The program is administered by Dunbar-based Mountain State Educational Services Cooperative, in partnership with TalentSmartEQ of San Diego, Calif.
The service is to be held on Juneteenth at 6:30 p.m. on the steps of the Capitol building. It will be a time of reflection on West Virginia’s history of racism, remembering those who were murdered, and repentance of the state’s complicity in the practice of lynching.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech during the March on Washington in August 1963, he had no way of knowing the narrative and legacy the speech would leave behind.