JOSELYN KING Staff Writer
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Members of Wheeling Universityâs Black Student Union march down Wheeling Hill during a prior Interfaith March For Peace And Justice. This yearâs march was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns, but MLK Celebration Committee members will hold a remembrance online.
WHEELING Annual events to celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have been canceled in Wheeling this year, but a remembrance of the civil rights leader will take place online.
MLK Celebration Committee Co-Chairs Rev. Ignatius Sasmita, S.J. and Ron Scott Jr. have announced the annual march slated for Sunday and other events “have been cancelled out of an abundance of caution and to adhere with the State of West Virginia guidelines.”
From STAFF REPORTS
The student winners from the Project on Racism Contest and 37th Annual Poster Competition, sponsored by the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs, includes several students from the Northern Panhandle.
The Project on Racism Contest was presented by the Martin Luther King Jr. State Holiday Commission and the YWCA Wheeling. Entries were accepted for essays, music, and five-minute films and was open to any student from grades 1-12 attending public, private, parochial, or home school in West Virginia. “The young people in our state have creativity and passion,” said HHOMA Executive Director and Martin Luther King Jr. State Holiday Commission Chair Jill Upson. “We are honored to take part in recognizing them, what they have to say and what they have achieved.”
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The absence of data on COVID-19 infections by race is leaving a hole in what the public knows about the spread of the virus in West Virginia and could be costing communities emergency grant money.
Patientsâ race is unidentified in 17,824 cases, a third of the state total, according to numbers reported Friday on West Virginiaâs coronavirus dashboard.
In the seven-day period ending Friday, 5,757 of 8,841 new positive cases did not list race.
West Virginia officials identified Black communities as a vulnerable population in May after Black leaders across the state pushed for greater transparency in data reporting.
The state then formed an advisory commission, which worked to increase testing in minority communities.