Danielle Walker named next ACLU of West Virginia leader

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Danielle Walker is an anomaly in West Virginia’s male-, white- and GOP-dominated state Legislature: The Democrat is the body’s only Black woman, its only openly LGBTQ+ member and the only one to talk publicly about having had an abortion. First elected in 2018, the Monongalia County lawmaker and single mother became a symbol of progressive resistance in the deeply conservative state, leading protests against bans on abortion and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Now she is leaving her seat and also her position as vice chair of the state Democratic Party to lead an organization challenging…