by naacplocal | Mar 14, 2022 | March 2022 Newsletter, news, newsletter, slavery
Recently, my wife and I were watching the television series, One Thousand Years of Slavery, on the Smithsonian Channel. There were many parts of it that brought sadness to our spirits, heartache to our emotional state, and even some tears to our faces. In the late...
by naacplocal | Mar 14, 2022 | Events, Juneteenth, March 2022 Newsletter, news, newsletter
This national federal holiday (also known as Emancipation Day) was signed into law, last year byPresident Biden. It commemorates June 19, 1865: the day that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and told slaves of their emancipation. It is...
by naacplocal | Mar 14, 2022 | March 2022 Newsletter, news, newsletter, war
The NAACP is disheartened with the events surrounding the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. In these crisis moments, choosing citizenship over humanity is an atrocity. Right now in Ukraine, Black families, immigrants from the African diaspora, and other people of color...
by naacplocal | Mar 14, 2022 | March 2022 Newsletter, newsletter, poetry
One of the things an insightful poet does is provide the prophetic vision that pierces the world to x-ray its core – to reveal a reality for all time and place. Reading Amanda Gorman’s poem At First, the night before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, I read these...
by naacplocal | Mar 14, 2022 | community, March 2022 Newsletter, membership, newsletter
I didn’t read the fine print when I joined the Freeport Branch of the NAACP. I was just happy to hear about its reactivation and eager to become a member. I selected the most popular membership category, Regular Adult Membership at $30 a year, without giving the other...
by naacplocal | Mar 14, 2022 | community, March 2022 Newsletter, newsletter
Here’s a brief paragraph for Branch members to say to others when talking with people about why they became members of our Branch and to our purpose. It is not necessity that members memorize this paragraph, but, it is important to express the spirit of the underlined...
