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No Reason to Distort Reality
Rita Caufield’s letter to the editor was written in response to a half-page historical display about Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States, which ran in The Martinsburg Journal’s February 7, 2024, edition.
Cohen’s off base, provides no supporting data
On June 11, 2022, The Martinsburg Journal published the op-ed by Richard Mier, M.D. The letter was written in response to a syndicated op-ed column by conservative political commentator Adriana Cohen.
Do No Harm
Op-ed written by Carol Williams and published in the Charleston Gazette and the Martinsburg Journal on June 6, 2020. The piece explores public policy, systemic racism, and the vast disparities between the enforcement of street crime and white-collar crime.
Just the Facts, Ma’am
In his August 20, 2022, letter to The Journal, Richard Mier refutes a prior submission by Gretchen Kemman by contrasting COVID-19 and influenza mortality data.
NAACP Full steam Ahead
An op-ed letter to the editor written by Richard Mier and published in the Journal-News on July 23, 2022 is a response directly to a prior July 17th op-ed written by Elliot Simon.
It’s Not Racism
Richard Mier responds to Betsy McGaughey’s column of Jan. 6, 2022.
The Wound That Never Healed
An essay written by US Army veteran and former ER nurse Carol Williams, published on September 15, 2019, in The Martinsburg Journal.
The Fight for Racial Justice in WV…
Keel won first place in the “Racial Justice: Fact or Fiction” essay contest, which was organized by the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Branch of the NAACP in co-sponsorship with the West Virginia Humanities Council and Shenandoah University.
Working Toward Better Race Relations
William Zakee McGill—then president of the Berkeley County NAACP—detailed local civil rights and community efforts in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on November 28, 2020
