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Black Agenda Healthcare Forum

NAACP High Point Branch Presents: Black Agenda Healthcare Forum When: Thursday, April 04 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Where: Williams Memorial CME Church, 3400 Triangle Lake Rd, High Point, NC 27260 Format: Hybrid In-Person and Online Panel Discussion with Q&A Live Stream...

High Point NAACP Achieves 2023 Branch of the Year

The education, advocacy, and actions of the High Point Branch NAACP,  #5405B,  was recognized at the 80th Annual NAACP State Convention,  held September 28-30, 2023, in Wilmington NC. Our High Point University Collegiate Chapter was present to celebrate with us. The...

High Point City Council Pass Recommendations ~ One High Point Commission on Reparations

The High Point Branch of the NAACP announces, “High Point City Council passes recommendations by the One High Point Commission on Reparations.”  The recommendations are based on quantifiable data submitted by subject matter experts. To review the data presented by the...

NAACP Shirts for Sale

Print this order form You may submit your filled order form with your payment or email it back using the email address on the bottom of the form. Use the link below to pay and upload your order form....

SB 747 (Omnibus Elections Bill) Problematic, Discriminatory, and Suppresses the Vote

Our democracy is based on freedom, fairness, and choice. But here in North Carolina, a power grab is upon us. Extremists who want control over our elections are pushing for legislation that would limit our freedom to vote and diminish our voices. Our election process...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates Medicaid Unwinding Problematic for the Most Vulnerable

With the national emergency declaration ending May 11, 2023, another national emergency evolves – more than half of those with Medicaid coverage will be terminated (3 million African Americans, 5 million Latinos, 1 million Asian and Pacific Islanders).  The first...

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates “Tell Your NC Representatives to Reject SB 747.”

This anti-voter bill would inject needless meddling by extremists who seek to limit access to the ballot box. The so-called N. C. Election Integrity Network is up to “no good.”    Senate Bill 747 Would: Allow anyone to violate privacy and challenge legitimate...

Celebration of Father’s Day

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us as we pay tribute to our community’s most courageousgentlemen. The men of honor in our lives who have made significant contributions to our families, our churches, and our community. During the Father’s Day...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates Say “NO” to So-Called Election Integrity “The Rise of Jim Crow”

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates say “NO” to so- called election integrity ~ “The Rise of Jim Crow.” A moment in time is upon us and “terms of endearment” that define this moment compels us ~~ “ the inalienable right for everyone to vote without threat or...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates ~ Pass HB 44 ~ Repeal the Literacy Test

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates ~~ Repeal the Literacy Test. The literacy test was added to the North Carolina Constitution shortly after so-called white supremacists overthrew Black elected officials and murdered hundreds of Black North Carolinians in...
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Black Agenda Healthcare Forum

NAACP High Point Branch Presents: Black Agenda Healthcare Forum When: Thursday, April 04 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Where: Williams Memorial CME Church, 3400 Triangle Lake Rd, High Point, NC 27260 Format: Hybrid In-Person and Online Panel Discussion with Q&A Live Stream...

High Point NAACP Achieves 2023 Branch of the Year

The education, advocacy, and actions of the High Point Branch NAACP,  #5405B,  was recognized at the 80th Annual NAACP State Convention,  held September 28-30, 2023, in Wilmington NC. Our High Point University Collegiate Chapter was present to celebrate with us. The...

High Point City Council Pass Recommendations ~ One High Point Commission on Reparations

The High Point Branch of the NAACP announces, “High Point City Council passes recommendations by the One High Point Commission on Reparations.”  The recommendations are based on quantifiable data submitted by subject matter experts. To review the data presented by the...

NAACP Shirts for Sale

Print this order form You may submit your filled order form with your payment or email it back using the email address on the bottom of the form. Use the link below to pay and upload your order form....

SB 747 (Omnibus Elections Bill) Problematic, Discriminatory, and Suppresses the Vote

Our democracy is based on freedom, fairness, and choice. But here in North Carolina, a power grab is upon us. Extremists who want control over our elections are pushing for legislation that would limit our freedom to vote and diminish our voices. Our election process...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates Medicaid Unwinding Problematic for the Most Vulnerable

With the national emergency declaration ending May 11, 2023, another national emergency evolves – more than half of those with Medicaid coverage will be terminated (3 million African Americans, 5 million Latinos, 1 million Asian and Pacific Islanders).  The first...

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates “Tell Your NC Representatives to Reject SB 747.”

This anti-voter bill would inject needless meddling by extremists who seek to limit access to the ballot box. The so-called N. C. Election Integrity Network is up to “no good.”    Senate Bill 747 Would: Allow anyone to violate privacy and challenge legitimate...

Celebration of Father’s Day

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us as we pay tribute to our community’s most courageousgentlemen. The men of honor in our lives who have made significant contributions to our families, our churches, and our community. During the Father’s Day...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates Say “NO” to So-Called Election Integrity “The Rise of Jim Crow”

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates say “NO” to so- called election integrity ~ “The Rise of Jim Crow.” A moment in time is upon us and “terms of endearment” that define this moment compels us ~~ “ the inalienable right for everyone to vote without threat or...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates ~ Pass HB 44 ~ Repeal the Literacy Test

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates ~~ Repeal the Literacy Test. The literacy test was added to the North Carolina Constitution shortly after so-called white supremacists overthrew Black elected officials and murdered hundreds of Black North Carolinians in...

As a Black boy growing up in Inglewood, California, my masculine identity and the expectations around romantic and intimate relationships were constructed by society’s shallow understanding of “traditional” and accepted behaviors that rendered the diverse and life-changing contributions of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and same gender loving (SGL) people invisible. My Black pride, however, requires that I acknowledge and celebrate my intersectional identity.

Black pride celebrations scheduled throughout the summer should be an extension of Black History month, a time to honor the legacy of those that came before us and a time to commit to carry the torch forward so we can all be free – that is happy, safe, and whole.

This past June, we celebrated 50 years since the Stonewall Resistance and the courageous actions of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender woman who refused to allow the police terrorize LGBTQ/SGL people at a safehaven (the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village). Johnson, along with Sylvia Rivera, anchored a movement that today, is still absent of Black LGBTQ/SGL community members who do not celebrate being proud in public because it is not safe, even among our own Black community.

So far this year, 11 transgender women have been murdered. All of these women were Black. Gender-based violence disproportionately impacts Black women and girls, especially Black transgender women. The continued violence and abuse against Black women and girls demonstrate that freedom is not equally enjoyed among us.

That’s why we are calling our community to action. Together, we can ensure gender justice by creating a safe, supportive, and affirming environment for all Black LGBTQ/SGL people, especially in spaces created for and by Black people.

Making sure that we all thrive is our shared responsibility and the NAACP remains a torchbearer in the fight to ensure that we are all are free.

As a proud NAACP member, and as the Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), the nations only civil rights organization focused on racial equity and LGBTQ/SGL equality, my hope is we will work better together to ensure that our civil rights efforts include intersectional social justice, specifically gender justice, and clear responses to the violence against Black transgender members of our community.

NBJC is proud to launch the Gender Justice toolkit at the 2019 NAACP Convention.  The toolkit designed to facilitate uncomfortable and, at times, difficult conversations that can save lives and end the violence that Black women and girls–both cisgender and transgender–as well as gender non-conforming and non-binary people, experience simply as a result of who they are and how God purposed for them to show up in the world. 

Malcolm X reminded us that the most disrespected, unprotected and neglected person in America is the Black woman. Let’s work together by using tools and resources like the Gender Justice toolkit to understand and practice the powerful ways we can way to protect, uplift, and empower all Black women and girls–including Black cisgender and transgender, women and girls– and to deconstruct the way violent and oppressive language and actions used against them. The only way to get free is to ensure we all get free. 

 

Thank you for your continued leadership,

 

David J. Johns