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Will speak with local authors about the citys history, starting with its link to booker t. Washington. And in about 20 minutes, the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and then in 50 minutes, theWest Virginia teachers strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of African Americans in america and at the time we had horrible jim crow race notes in the south, that didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of Race Relations and what he observed with his heroes was the building of a black middle ...

Roanoke Bluegrass duo The Brothers Young to play free concert June 9 Milepost Music is bringing live mountain music to Peaks of Otter, located at milepost 85.6…

By Stephen Robert Miller for the Food and Environment Reporting Network.Broadcast version by Eric Galatas for Colorado News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration If you’ve gone walking in the woods out West lately, you might have encountered a pile of sticks. Or perhaps hundreds of them, heaped as high as your head and strewn about the forest like Viking funeral pyres awaiting a flame. These slash piles are an increasingly common sight in the American West, as land managers work to thin out unnaturally dense sections of forests &...

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