HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A historic Black community finally has something to celebrate after years of development debates. Brown Grove is a historic Black community that has called Hanover County home since 1870. Since then, the community has been impacted by new...
Organizations Advocating for Virginia LGBTQ+ Youth Respond to Hanover County School Board’s Proposed Restroom and Locker Room Policy
Hanover fails at every turn to create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all of its students by proposing a policy that would place an undue burden on trans students to "earn" the right to use public school facilities please click link to read...
Clifford Alexander Jr., first Black secretary of Army, dies at 88
Clifford L. Alexander Jr., a Harlem-raised, Ivy League-educated lawyer who was a crusading chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the late 1960s and later served as the first Black secretary of the Army, died July 3 at his home in Manhattan. He was...
Hanover County School Board and Hanover County Board of Supervisors
The Hanover NAACP is increasingly concerned about the changes we have seen in the Hanover County School Board over the last few years. The words and actions of certain School Board members directly oppose Hanover County Public Schools’ stated goals and mission to...
Hanover NAACP asks county leaders to reconsider school board appointments
The Hanover NAACP is asking the county board of supervisors to reconsider the appointment of school board members who the organization says have made comments and taken actions opposed to the school division’s goals and mission....
Juneteenth festival draws hundreds of Hanoverians
Hundreds of community members joined in the Juneteenth festivities on Sunday, June 19 at a day-long bash presented by Hanover NAACP and the Town of Ashland....
State grants historic district title to Hanover site where Wegmans warehouse set to rise
Brown Grove in Hanover County is now on Virginia’s register of historic places, but its inclusion is unlikely to prevent the development of a Wegmans distribution center there....
Va. Supreme Court will hear appeal in contentious Wegmans distribution center case
The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear an appeal of two lower court rulings that found that residents living near a massive planned Wegmans distribution center project in Hanover didn’t have standing to challenge local officials’ approval of the project....
Hanover NAACP Opposes School Board’s Decision To Discriminate Against Transgender Youth
HANOVER (November 9, 2021) – The NAACP is stunned by the 4-3 decision tonight as the Hanover School Board blatantly disregarded the advice of their own legal counsel with a decision that discriminates against our transgender youth. Board Members Axselle, Ikenberry,...
VPM 11/1/21: National and state fights over racial equity in public schools are playing out in Hanover
The country’s political divide has been on clear display at school board meetings across the country all summer and this fall. That’s true too in Virginia, where education has taken central stage in the gubernatorial race.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin has latched onto the heated debates, falsely stating that CRT has moved into all Virginia schools and jumping on one of his opponents, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, for saying parents shouldn’t “be telling schools what they should teach.”
The dialogue about what say — if any — parents should have when it comes to what their kids are learning in schools has been at the center of much of the debate. One Youngkin campaign video features a Loudoun County parent who was upset over a book her high school senior was reading in an advanced placement literature class, Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.”
Loudoun County also made national headlines as a bitter fight unfolded over racism in the school district. In Central Virginia, similar fights are playing out in Hanover County.