The following information concerning state-wide and area news, events, and activities is updated at the beginning of each calendar month. Please check with the originating organization to check on possible cancellations or changes that might have occurred since they were originally posted here. See Local News for non-CCSJ events and activities organized and/or occurring in the Morgantown area. See WVU News for Social and Environmental Justice related activties and events organized or occurring at West Virginia University.
The West Virginia Legislative Session is currently underway. CCSJ is a non-partisan organization. Please note that events can move very quickly once the session starts – or start quickly and then stall – or never move at all. Check any of these statewide groups or other social justice and environmental justice groups to keep up with their issues and learn who to contact when. Follow the groups on Facebook or with email alerts if you are a member.
You can track bills here.
Find your legislators here. You can also track bills from the same site.
The session will end at midnight on Saturday, March 14th.
For information on everything you need to know about registering, voting, or running for office, go here. You can register now for an absentee ballot. Pay attention to deadlines and, if necessary, go to the post office to be sure something is postmarked on time.
West Virginia NOW has a Facebook page and a web page. Or email Amanda Ray, the state NOW president, at amandajray@yahoo.com.
Kanawha Valley: KVNOW meets on the 4th Thursday of every month at the Public Library. Follow them on Facebook.
Huntington NOW: Follow them on Facebook.
See more about ACLU West Virginia here or Facebook. Email them at mail@acluwv.org.
“Our 2026 bill tracker is now live! Every year, ACLU-WV tracks hundreds of pieces of proposed legislation impacting our civil liberties. We're adding new bills every day, so bookmark the page today and continue to watch this space.” The easiest way to find it is to go here and click on the link in the window to the right. At “press time,” it looks like they are tracking 167 bills, and you can see if the ACLU supports or opposes a bill, is neutral-monitoring it, or think sit needs amendments.
The ACLU has started a Police Accountability Dashboard “to provide insight into officer careers and accountability. Go to dashboard.dragline.org for a variety of ways to search information about law enforcement officers in the state.
Fairness West Virginia is a civil rights advocacy organtization dedicated to the fair and equal treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender West Virginians.
Follow Fairness West Virginia on Facebook.
For more on this group’s events, go to Facebook www.facebook.com/RainbowPrideWV or their website here.
"The West Virginia Transgender Coalition is a grassroots organization that works to ensure the wellbeing, safety and lived equity of all trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive community members within the state of West Virginia.”
Meetings will now be held the first Monday of the month! Meetings are open to any community member interested in joining..
For more information, please go their Facebook page.
This group organized in December 2021 in Charleston “to illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ+ people of color in West Virginia and provide them with a safe space of fellowship,” according to a story in the Juneteenth edition of Black By God: The West Virginian. For more information, email WVBPfoundation@outlook.com or Kasha@wvpfoundation.com.
According to its website, “We are an emerging news and storytelling organization centering Black voices from the Mountain State. We provide a more nuanced portrayal of the Black experience in the Appalachian region.” Crystal Good is the editor/publisher/founder of Black By God.
There is a weekly online edition and a quarterly print edition.
To contact Black by God, email Info@Blackbygod.org or call 304-207-0352. The mailing address is 2156 University Ave. Suite 400, Morgantown, WV, 26505. To make a tax-deductible donation, go to blackbygod.org/donate.