WCAAHC Members
Individuals and representations of organizations who are interested in committing to the work of the Warren County African American History Collective should provide feedback and/or approval on the Collective's mission, vision, and goals and send in a short biography to be included in the list of current membership. Along with the biography, members are invited to send in ideas of projects, goals, individuals, organizations, resources, and skills they can suggest or provide to the group. We encourage everyone interested in the work of the Collective to learn more and get involved by contacting Rev. Bill Kearney at b[email protected].
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Jane Ball-Groom
Jane Ball-Groom is the founder and director of Pier View Community Innovations, through which she supports several initiatives: the H.O.P.E. Rural Healthcare Initiative; G.E.N.E.A., which empowers and educates through ancestry and the arts; and E.M.E.R.G.E., a program that offers job readiness and empowerment skills training. She has 40+ years of professional experience in public, private, and nonprofit administrative environments, including as the Workforce Development Director for the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments, Founder and Co-Director of the Women WIN Initiative, and Executive Administrative Assistant for the Historic Soul City New Town Project. She is also a published author of The Salad Pickers: Journey South, When the Rainbow is Gray, and ...And, Yet Another Day: Journey of My Soul. Jane won the Oakley Hall Literary Prize in 2019. She can be contacted at [email protected]. |
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Barbara Brayboy
Member, Haliwa-Saponi tribe | Member, Warren County Board of Education |
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Magnolia Williams Clanton
A native of Warren County, Magnolia Williams Clanton is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has studied at the Université de Lyon, Lyon, France and the Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. She is a retired teacher of French. Clanton is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Rho Tau Omega Chapter and The Lake Gaston Area Chapter of the Links, Incorporated. She is a member of the WCAAHC, the Warren County Commission for Historic Preservation, Preservation Warrenton, and the Warren County Arts Council. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Warren County Community Center. Clanton’s hobbies include reading, crossword puzzles, traveling, and shopping. She and her husband, Odell D. Clanton, Jr. reside in Warren County, NC. Contact Magnolia via phone (252-431-4394), email ([email protected]), or mail (828 NC Highway 58, Warrenton, NC, 27589). |
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Congresswoman Eva Clayton
Former Representative, North Carolina First Congressional District |
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Jennie Franklin
Historian |
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Dr. Cosmos George
Dr. Cosmos George is a retired physician who has continued to serve the community in the name of social justice. After twenty-two years of practicing Obstetrics/Gynecology in a rural community that he loves, he worked with the Warren County Free Clinic to provide free healthcare to the uninsured residents of Warren County. Currently, he serves as President of Warren County Branch of NAACP. Under his leadership, the Branch has introduced the gun violence prevention program used by the WCS, advocated for adequate broadband for the community, promoted voter education and registration events, and advocated for teaching of accurate history. Dr. George believes education should lead to liberation by encouraging students to excel in order to find the best job or efficiently manage their own business. Follow the Warren County NAACP on Facebook. |
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Terry Alston Jones
Author, Executive Director Living and Learning Youth Center https://www.livingandlearningyouthcenter.org A first-generation college student, Terry attended North Carolina Central University, NCCU earning her Bachelor of English degree. She describes the years she spent at NCCU as the awakening of life and all its possibilities. It was there that she learned many academic and life lessons and met lifelong friends. Terry has served as a Middle Grades Language Arts/Reading teacher, a college-level Developmental English instructor and First Year College Academic Advisor. Terry has also worked extensively in the nonprofit sector throughout the Northeastern sector of North Carolina as a Community Health Outreach Coordinator. Terry is the author of a Summer with No Ice Cream and the Parent Push. She lives with her family on their family farm in Northeastern North Carolina. |
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Rev. William Kearney
Rev. William Kearney is a partner in several UNC community-engaged research partnerships and engages and consults with universities, organizations, and partnerships across the U.S. His consulting company, Bill Kearney & Company, LLC, sponsors the Warren County Environmental Action Team and the Warren County African American History Collective. Rev. Kearney serves as associate minister and health ministry coordinator at Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church and past vice president of the United Shiloh Missionary Baptist Association Church Union. He is also a research associate and community outreach manager at UNC's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Rev. Kearney has co-authored numerous research manuscripts and articles and has co-produced various documentaries. He is also a managing partner of the PRIME Collective Consultants, LLC. Email Rev. Kearney at b[email protected]. |
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Angelena Kearney-Dunlap
After 26+ years of service, Angelena retired as Clerk to the Warren County Board of Commissioners. Angelena is committed to assisting individuals and/or groups with travel for missions, education, and leisure. She coordinates obtaining passports, travel visas, immunizations, and other travel-related items. Her most recent venture is coordination of "underground railroad" tour groups. For more information, call 252-213-9932, email [email protected], or visit https://extendyourterritorytravel.inteletravel.com/booktravel.cfm. |
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Jereann King-Johnson
Jereann founded Heritage Quilters to support and document quilting traditions. Heritage Quilters also maintains a historic house in Warrenton, NC and organizes a tour for school staff of Warren County’s cultural, historic, economic, and social landscapes from the perspectives of grassroots community members. |
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Jenny Labalme
Jenny Labalme photographed the 1982 Warren County protests as part of a documentary photography class she took when she was a student at Duke University. Shortly after graduating from Duke, she received a grant to publish the photos in a small book called, A Road to Walk. Labalme spent almost two decades working as a photojournalist and journalist for The North Carolina Independent (now INDY Week), the Mexico Journal (in Mexico City, Mexico), The Anniston Star (in Anniston, AL) and The Indianapolis Star. She currently is the executive director of the Indianapolis Press Club Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises and manages funds to provide journalism awards, scholarships, and paid summer fellowships for deserving students at Indiana colleges and universities. Labalme has two adult children and lives with her husband in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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Wayne Moseley
Wayne Mosely, born and raised in Warren County, was among the first group of protesters to be arrested during the September 1982 PCB toxic landfill protests. Now retired after 40+ years of collegiate recruitment management and consulting at the Living Arts College (a school he helped found) in Wake Forest, NC, Wayne still advocates for environmental and social justice. He has helped produce two Warren County: Birth of a Movement documentaries. |
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Nadia Orton
Nadia K. Orton is President of the Sacred Grounds Project, Inc., a professional genealogist, speaker, and family historian. She is a graduate of Duke University, with a double major in Political Science and African/African American Studies, and a Certificate in Markets and Management Science. She has researched her paternal family roots to 1690 in Tidewater, Virginia, and maternal roots to 1740 in Edgecombe, Franklin, Hertford, Nash, Vance, Warren, and Wilson counties in North Carolina. She manages eight websites and Facebook pages devoted to the advocacy and preservation of African American cemeteries in Virginia and North Carolina, written two highway historical markers, and authored several articles for the National Trust for Historic Preservation on the subject. She maintains a blog, Sacred Ground, Sacred History. |
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Rev. Willie Ramey
Environmental Justice Organizer, Warren County |
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Shauna Singletary Williams
Shauna Singletary Williams is a retired news journalist. She started her career at WTVD in Durham as a reporter. Her first trip to Warren County was in the late ‘70’s to cover the illegal dumping of PCBs! She left the anchor desk and went to the network, first as a correspondent at NBC News, then a field producer, coordinating producer and freelance producer for a total of 40 years. She returned to North Carolina after marrying Warren County native Yarbrough Williams. Mrs. Williams is President of the Board of Trustees of the Warren County Community Center. She enjoys traveling with her husband, loves spending time with their children, grandchildren & one great grand. Her hobbies include reading, writing, cooking and crocheting. The Warren County Community Center was born out of a need for rest room facilities in downtown Warrenton in the mid 1930’s. It became THE focal point for the Black community with a library and meeting rooms. Still in operation, the community center building is available for meetings and social gatherings. Board members operate a program for high school students, host a holiday open house, participate in the Angel Tree program, proctor exams in the schools and more! Their two fundraisers a year include a Gospel Sing in November and a Black History program in February. Work on a museum continues. Contact her at [email protected] and visit the Community Center at www.warrencountycommunitycenter.com |
