by admin | May 15, 2023 | Art, press
Media Contact: Patricia Norman, President Phone: (815) 291-6401 Email: info@naacpfreeport.org Freeport, IL – May 15, 2023—Freeport NAACP Branch Recognizes Importance of Graphic Arts in the Black Community The Freeport Branch of the NAACP launched a graphic design...
by admin | Mar 23, 2023 | healthcare, press
FREEPORT, Ill., March 17, 2023 — The League of Women Voters of Freeport and the Freeport branch of the NAACP are hosting a presentation from FHN outlining local healthcare needs as identified in the FHN Community Health Needs Assessment in December 2022. The event...
by admin | Mar 2, 2023 | Black History Month, Events, fundraiser, news
The Black History T-Shirt Design contest winner for the 2023 Freeport NAACP Branch is Mr. Nathan J. Taylor, artist extraordinaire. Mr. Taylor, a visual artist, painter, graphic designer, and art director, submitted three designs based on the following themes: Black...
by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | Black History Month, Events, news
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She was six years old at the time. Despite intimidation and...
by admin | Feb 27, 2023 | Black History Month, Events, news
Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She owned the newspaper The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight and was a vocal critic of segregated schools. Later, she became...