About Our Community
Who We are
NTD is led by a group of WV entrepreneurs who have been successful in supporting and building the community of Charleston, WV. NTD is a non-profit 501(c)3 established to participate in community economic development for the upliftment of Charleston, WV. NTD is establishing a blue-print that can be adopted by other communities to support job development, community support and healthy family outcomes.
Our Mission
In the spirit of the original Triangle District of Charleston, West Virginia, New Triangle District seeks to embody the spirit of entrepreneurship and community to improve the quality of life within our families. NTD plans to accomplish its mission by providing physically, emotionally and mentally strengthening activities to be utilized in a variety of ways that appeal to persons of all economic levels but especially low to moderate income persons.
Our Goal
NTD has the lofty goal of renewing community confidence in the city's ability to support people in a way they can depend on in a timely and respectful manner.
The "Original" Triangle District
Former residents described a diverse community that protected African Americans from larger forms of discrimination.
Chlorine Carter remembered “a beautiful area where everybody was your protector, and friends and family looked after one another.” Residents were proud to call the Triangle District their own because it was place of racial intermingling. Growing up on the Block meant playing with children of all races, Carter explained. “We lived in a mixed community, and we were friends with kids in the community.”
Hubert “Rabbit” Jones had similar experiences. As a young man, he played improv jazz for interracial audiences both inside and outside of the Triangle District. When Jones played for white bars, guests would dance to the music, even though they were not supposed to dance to music performed by Black musicians.
“Sometimes the policemen would stop them and sometimes they wouldn’t,” he mused. “And then following the dances some of the whites would come over to the Triangle District for the rest of the night, listening to and dancing to Black music.” The Triangle District was not a barrier against racism, but it dulled its dreadful impact, inviting people of every race to dance together.
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