NAACP

Civil rights trailblazer J. R. Clifford died on October 6, 1933, at age 85. He served in an African American unit during the Civil War and founded Martinsburg’s Pioneer Press, the first black-owned newspaper in West Virginia.

Poet Anne Spencer died on July 27, 1975, at age 93. Born Annie Bethel Bannister in Virginia, she and her mother moved to Bramwell in Mercer County, West…

The executive director of an office charged with reviewing research on policies that disproportionately affect minority populations says she doesn't plan…

A long-time advocate for civil rights among African-Americans in West Virginia has passed away.James Alvin Tolbert Sr, passed away last week in hospice…

Members of the West Virginia NAACP have requested the creation of a citizens' police review board for one of the state's largest cities.News outlets…

Teacher and civic activist Memphis Tennessee Carter was born in Hollins, Virginia, on March 3, 1890.Her father, a former slave, was a coal miner who moved…

The NAACP’s annual state convention took place over the weekend on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University featuring a panel discussion where speakers…

On Civil Rights Day at the Capitol, Local members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the HOPE Community Development…

Julian Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, has died. He was 75.The Southern Poverty Law Center says in a statement…

A group of about 25 protestors gathered on the steps of the state Capitol Wednesday with handmade signs chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” just as…