OV Hip Hop

Getting to Know the OV Hip-Hop Scene

Editor’s note: This week, Weelunk will pause our normally scheduled programming to highlight stories that feature Black narratives. We have chosen to take this time to amplify those voices that are so often sil...

Can Teaching Kids Compassion Change Culture?

As compassion training is becoming more popular in schools across the country, a school in West Virginia is taking on a pilot compassion curriculum project of its own. The goal is to improve student achievement...

A More Compassionate Country Day

Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story and audio here: Listen As compassion training is becoming more popular in schools across the country, a school in Wes...

Wheeling Blues Fest Beats Heat, Rocks Rain

Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story and audio here: Listen When the sun was out it was HOT. And when the rain came it POURED. But attendees seemed happy...

The Poetry Break: Louise McNeill

Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting   West Virginia Poet Laureate and Ohio County resident Marc Harshman delivers the poetry of his predecessor's predecessor in this P...

A Call for Telling New Stories

Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story here: Listen   The Catholic Committee of Appalachia just published a pastoral letter. It’s the third of its k...

First State Capitol Gets Solarized

Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story here: Listen   Standing in downtown Wheeling, “the original gate to the West” (as Wheelonians sometimes call ...

Does W.Va. Need More Poetry?

Perhaps not surprisingly, West Virginia’s poet laureate, Marc Harshman, seems to thinks so. He’s been collaborating with several organizations, including West Virginia Public Broadcasting, to conceive new ev...

Visiting the Mound in Moundsville

Photos by Glynis Board Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story here: Listen   Scattered across the state, often just under the surface veneer of W...