NORFOLK
The Norfolk NAACP held its 66th Annual Life Membership & Freedom Fund Dinner on Saturday November 8, 2025 at the Doubletree Hotel, with keynote remarks from Rev. Dr. Kirk Houston, Senior Pastor, Gethsemane Community Fellowship Baptist Church in Norfolk.
The event paid tribute to the city’s legendary Norfolk 17, the African-American youth who on February 2, 1959 desegregated the Norfolk Public Schools. In so doing, they became history makers, joining young pioneers across the nation who helped change the country’s apartheid system of racial segregation…