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At the 2008 Winter Meeting, held on Saturday, January, 26th at the historic Union Baptist Church in Durham, the candidates for governor held a debate. WRALTV has broadcast the entire debate. Watch it now. Additional Media coverage: "Four Spar in Heated Durham Debate; NAACP Event to be Broadcast Monday," News and Observer.com; "Four NC Governors' Candidates Answer NAACP Questions," Associated Press. "Forum Puts Candidates in Hot Seat," News 14.
At First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, the Rev. Curtis Gatewood, second vice president of the NC NAACP, and daughter Desmera rap about Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. NewsObserver.com posted the video.
Emphasizing that the NAACP is officially non-partisan but not non-political, NAACP President William Barber spoke to the Progressive Democrats of North Carolina's
state convention in December of 2007. The loyalty must be to principles
of justice. He talked about building a new progressive coalition for
change in the state. "You can't put new wine in old wineskins because
the old wineskins will burst and they can't maintain or hold onto the
newness....You have to use new wineskins." Video clips below:
Dr. Alma Adams, chair of the N.C. Black Legislative Caucus, and the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, president of the NC NAACP have announced that the N.C. NAACP has intervened against a mysterious lawsuit that tries to disenfranchise Black voters. They released information about the nature of the lawsuit, and the federal court’s approval of the NAACP’s Intervention at a press conference on Jan. 15, 2008 (the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
'We' Is the most important word in the social justice vocabulary. The issue is not what we can't do, but what we CAN do when we stand together. With an upsurge in racism/hate crimes, criminalization of young black males, insensitivity to the poor, educational genocide, and the moral/economic cost of a war, we must STAND together now like never before.'
Amina Turner North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
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