Virginia NAACP Obtains Records Regarding Attorney General’s “Election Integrity Unit." Links below: Press Release here:...
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[BREAKING] NAACP successfully persuades EPA to investigate racist use of federal funds for Jackson, MS water systems. This is a strong first step by the EPA, but we know that environmental racism doesn’t end at Jackson’s city limits. The federal government MUST make...
Historic Black community celebrates halting Hanover landfill development
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....