Young voices ruminating on Dr. Martin Luther King’s words filled Laughlin Memorial Chapel as winners of the Annual Project on Racism Contest read their pieces. At the awards breakfast for the competition held on Monday, local winners were recognized by YWCA Cultural Diversity & Community Outreach Director Ron Scott Jr. Students were awarded for their […]
WHEELING Young voices ruminating on Martin Luther King Jr.’s words filled Laughlin Memorial Chapel as winners of the Annual Project on Racism Contest read
Wheeling, W.Va. (WTRF) – YWCA Wheeling is teaming up with Glasseye Worx and Wheeling Heritage to provide a series of culturally specific escape rooms. This will give people an opportunity to participate in escape rooms based on different cultures that exist within local communities. The first escape room is themed after Hawaiian/Polynesian culture, and is […]
The Ohio County Public Library is modernizing a historic speech from one of Wheeling’s most notable African American leaders as part of a larger project to boost civic empathy in the region. It’s an updated version of a speech heard on Wheeling airwaves in 1936, advocating for the town’s “Twentieth Man.”