The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This group is an American civil rights organization formed back in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
In 2025's first installment of The Journey, Kayla Tinsley features Black-owned businesses in the Valley while recognizing Black pioneers who paved the way through history.
Clarence Fuchs Jr. found a newspaper that dates all the way back to June 19, 1863. The local newspaper in Rockingham County back then was called “The Rockingham Register.”
African, African American, and Diaspora Students is a program where students can learn all about initiatives related to black people, whether that’s on their history, culture, languages, economics, ideas, and much more.
Before Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s passing in 1950, he made it a mission to tell the stories of Black people and how they shaped the world into what we know today.