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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...

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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...

On Monday, November 21, 2022, three members of our branch disingenuously calling themselves our “selection committee” attended a meeting with the City of High Point wherein they petitioned the council to remove a member of the One High Point Commission, Ms. Dawn Alston-Paige.

Bernita Sims, Elma Hairston and Bradford Lilley had absolutely no authority to attend this meeting on our behalf nor to make any recommendations representing the High Point Branch NAACP or our Reparations Committee. In fact, no discussion has taken place within the Branch, its leadership or any of our committees to this effect. Most importantly, these individuals had absolutely no right to engage in personal attacks against any commissioners while invoking our name and reputation. For them to do so calls into question their integrity and this Branch wholeheartedly disavows their actions.

We offer our full and unconditional apology to Dawn Alston-Paige who has unfairly had her character maligned and endured personal humiliation as a result of this attack. Ms. Sims, Ms. Hairston and Mr. Lilley put forward baseless allegations about Ms. Paige which were subsequently published in the news media.

  • They said Ms. Paige was the cause of stagnation and slow progress on the One High Point Commission. This couldn’t be further from the truth. By any measure, Ms. Paige has been one of, if not the most focused, resourceful and productive members of the commission. Those who have followed the process from the beginning in June would be exceedingly grateful for her numerous contributions, topic specific expertise and her network of other experts on reparations.

 

  • Ms. Sims, Ms. Hairston and Mr. Lilley suggested that Ms. Paige damaged the “morale of the group.” However this is demonstrably untrue, as Ms. Paige was but one of many commissioners that came to the Branch in the preceding months to express their deeply held concerns with the leadership, and slow pace of the OHPC which heavily damaged the morale of the group.

 

  • Although we cannot condone Ms. Paige’s behavior over the past month, we recognize that it did not develop in a vacuum. The recent series of brash actions on her behalf were acts of desperation designed to shine a light on LONG STANDING issues with the OHPC previously expressed by several other commissioners (one of whom resigned over them), and repeatedly brought up over four months ago by members of our Reparations Committee only to be met with silence. This dynamic could have been mitigated, had our Branch taken these concerns seriously.

The actual One High Point Commission’s Selection Committee consists of four delegates from the City government and four delegates from the High Point Branch NAACP. While Ms. Sims, Ms. Hairston and Mr. Lilley were in fact members of that delegation in February 2022 charged with executing the specific tasks outlined in the resolution, they had no authority or legitimate role in this process after the selection process concluded in the May 2022 appointment of the OHPC Commissioners. Our Branch has a deliberative process for making important decisions such as this and these rogue individuals never brought these new concerns to the Branch as a whole or any committee in the Branch. Even our President was unaware of this action before it took place.

In wrapping their own personal opinions under the cloak of their appointments as Selection Committee delegates Ms. Sims, Ms. Hairston and Mr. Lilley violated the trust of the Branch and used our name and reputation as a weapon to publicly tear down an accomplished Black woman.