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.
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.
See more about ACLU West Virginia here or Facebook. Email them at mail@acluwv.org.
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.
You can read the full reports for West Virginia cities in the Municipal Equality Index report here. The West Virginia cities scored were:
Charles Town – 48 (46 + 2 flex score)
Charleston – 96 (92 + 4 flex score)
Huntington – 93 (85 + 8 flex score)
Lewisburg – 37(35 + 2 flex score)
Morgantown – 100 (95 + 20 flex score but can’t go above 100)
Parkersburg – 12 (12 + 0 flex score)
Wheeling – 62 (60 + 2 flex score)
Follow Fairness West Virginia on Facebook.
For more on this group’s events, go to Facebook www.facebook.com/RainbowPrideWV or their website here.
Rainbow Pride of West Virginia is having a Drag Bingo - Holiday Edition on Sunday, December 7 at 5:00 p.m. at the Lee Street Lounge, 222 Leon Sullivan Way, Charleston, WV.
"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.