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One High Point, One Community: Transforming Youth Unity Rally

The High Point NAACP Youth Council (HPYC Unit 59i1) and the High Point NAACP Religious Affairs Committee are excited to announce the upcoming Transforming Youth Unity Rally. This special event is scheduled for Saturday, June 22nd, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the...

CELEBRATING: EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN WHO MAKE ADIFFERENCE “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” CORONATION ~~ MOTHER’S DAY TEA

Join us as we celebrate elegance and inspiration at the “Exceptional Women Who Make A Difference” Mother’s Day Tea presented by the Women in NAACP (WIN) of the High Point Branch. This prestigious event will take place at the Golden Doors Event Center in High Point,...

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...
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One High Point, One Community: Transforming Youth Unity Rally

The High Point NAACP Youth Council (HPYC Unit 59i1) and the High Point NAACP Religious Affairs Committee are excited to announce the upcoming Transforming Youth Unity Rally. This special event is scheduled for Saturday, June 22nd, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the...

CELEBRATING: EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN WHO MAKE ADIFFERENCE “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” CORONATION ~~ MOTHER’S DAY TEA

Join us as we celebrate elegance and inspiration at the “Exceptional Women Who Make A Difference” Mother’s Day Tea presented by the Women in NAACP (WIN) of the High Point Branch. This prestigious event will take place at the Golden Doors Event Center in High Point,...

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...

I believe people are entitled to healthy, fresh foods because it’s pivotal to a healthy life. Although, it may be difficult to get your hands on them, there are numerous steps one can take to get them. Eating healthy is expensive but income disparity should not determine whether or not we live longer.

 

I became interested in growing my own foods about 6 years ago when I started working with Milestone Cooperative Association, a youth program. As I progressed in my role at the co-op, I began seeing all the benefits from eating healthy. I said to myself, “Wow, I can be that fit by replacing two or my four pieces of fish with a salad.” I started attending conferences all around the country and listening to how different people had methods of becoming a better them. I then attended a food justice conference in Greensboro, NC that not only showed the benefits of eating healthy, but the consequences of not eating healthy and my eyes were opened even more and I dived into the movement.

 

One of the problems I have encountered along the way has been that people just do not have the time to put in their body what it deserves. My advice?  If you are unable to afford it then one option is to grow it either in your own back yard or at a community garden. Growing your own fresh, healthy foods is empowering and it gives you more entitlement on what you put in your body. It gives you a say-so in what is available to you, not just a convenience store.

 

Food justice involves fixing the lack of access people have to healthy food.

 

Food Justice in rural areas, such as Holmes County, is odious. Not because of the people, but because of the lack of information. Food justice to me is more than just having the right to grow and/or sell healthy foods, it is about having a passion for something bigger than just one’s self. Dedicating time, effort, energy, and even money into something that will benefit not just yourself but others now and in the future. Due to this lack of food justice it has affected hundreds of people, even myself. It impacts almost every aspect of my life, from health to mental development. Vegetables, fruits healthy foods makes up over 90% of needed brain foods.

 

Food justice is also an environmental justice issue.   

 

Food justice has an even bigger impact on the environment. Growing healthy foods keeps land fertilized and prosperous. When nothing is being planted in an area over a long period of time it becomes in uncultivable. This will soon spread like a disease not just to other plants but to animals. When land cannot produce, it effects the ecosystem drastically.  Animals lose their source of food causing their population to decrease and in some instances, they become extinct.

 

It is not surprising how much of an impact it has on race. Food justice breaks the backs of African Americans more than any other race. Not only are African Americans still reciprocating from years of oppression but they are also dying from health related issues. Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, congested heart failure and even stroke are all environmental health issues that we can work towards solving by working on food justice issues.

 

I became interested in growing my own foods about 6 years ago when I started working with Mileston Cooperative Association, a youth program. As I progressed in my role at the co-op, I began seeing all the benefits from eating healthy. I said to myself, “Wow, I can be that fit by replacing two or my four pieces of fish with a salad.” I started attending conferences all around the country and listening to how different people had methods of becoming a better them. I then attended a food justice conference in Greensboro, NC that not only showed the benefits of eating healthy, but the consequences of not eating healthy and my eyes were opened even more and I dived into the movement.

 

My goals are to inspire more people, young people more specifically, to want to be healthy. I hope the long hours, hot summers, bug bites and sweaty clothes do not discourage but encourages them to want it more than anything. Be bold, be outrageous, be different because in order to get something you have never had, you have to go somewhere you have never been, and do something you have never done and be someone you have never been.