State education officials pledge to reduce discipline disparity between Black, white students loganbanner.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from loganbanner.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Public schools in West Virginia have suspended Black students at twice the rate of white students over the past five years, underscoring a disparity highlighted in 2015.
Posters designed by local students are featured during an unveiling ceremony on Monday, February 1, 2021, inside the Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery at the Marshall University Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington. The creators of the posters are, from left to right, Isabella Schrader of Chesapeake, Ohio, Huntington High freshman Chloe Masey, Barboursville Middle School student Milla Werthammer and Southside Elementary student Elynn Winters.
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Marshall to host virtual events in recognition of Black History Month 2021 herald-dispatch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from herald-dispatch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Statewide Martin Luther King Jr. Day ecumenical service set for virtual audience By
January 18, 2021 - 12:30 am
CHARLESTON, W.Va. The Martin Luther King Jr. State Holiday Commission will host the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Ecumenical Service to a statewide audience Monday.
The Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs (HHOMA) recently announced it will be done virtually due to COVID-19 and will be broadcasted from WV Public Broadcasting, the West Virginia Channel at 8 p.m. The service will also be HHOMA Facebook page at 9:30 a.m.
“We are looking at the positives of this virtual program. In the fact that we are going to be able to reach a lot more people around the state. Just already with our social media posts, it has reached thousands of people,” Commission Chair and HHOMA Executive Director Jill Upson told MetroNews.