Parties wanting to tear down two historic homes owned by former slave George Lomax, located on Liberty St in Manassas Virginia will appear before the Architectural Review Board this evening, 13 DEC at 7:30pm. If you can join us in the meeting, please come. Hope to see you there at City of Manassas City Hall, 9027 Center St., 2nd Floor conference Room Manassas, VA 20110.
We are pleased to announce the results of our 2016 election for the Unit Officers and Executive Committee Members for 2017-2018. The elected officers are Cozy Bailey- President; EJ Scott- 1st Vice President; Keith Smith- 2nd Vice President; Emily Proctor- Treasurer; and William Stackhouse – Assistant Treasurer. For the Executive Committee the following were nominated and elected: Andrea Bailey, Alice Davis, Marvella Johnson, Ardine Marie, Don Scoggins, and John Steinbach. These officers and Executive Committee members will be sworn in on January the 17th at our General Membership meeting. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this meeting.
Don’t forget to vote on November 8. Voting is an important civic duty.
The Prince William Unit of the NAACP is hosting a Candidate Roundtable on Wednesday, October 26th, at 7:00pm at First AME Church 10313 South Grant Ave. Manassas, VA 20110.
There are many issues facing the African American community: criminal justice reform, economic sustainability, voter suppression and many more. Where do the candidates stand? Come to the PW NAACP Candidate Roundtable and find out. The Roundtable will focus on identifying the economic challenges and opportunities of the African American community in the County, Manassas City and Manassas Park. Economic Sustainability is listed as the first item in the NAACP 21st Century Game Changers which can be viewed by clicking here. We are inviting all Candidates representing our area: Congressional District Candidates from the 1st ,10th and 11th; and local candidates in Manassas City and Manassas Park.
Feel free to submit any questions you may have for the Candidates. You may do this by visiting our Facebook event and accessing the survey questionnaire referenced there, or go directly to the survey by clicking here.
Thank you for your assistance in promoting this roundtable and sending it to your contacts. We look forward to seeing you there.
Please pass this information to all organizations that you are involved in and your friends and family.
The PW NAACP unit will hold its bi-annual election on November 15th. In addition to the traditional process of receiving nominations for officers and at-large Executive Committee members, we have developed this tools to make it easier for our members to submit nominations. If you desire to be nominated for an office or as at-large member of the Executive Committee, then please provide the following link to those whom you would like to nominate you: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PD8NFGW. The nomination process via this survey closes on October 17th so that the unit secretary can validate all nominations.
A member of the unit must have been a member in good standing on April 1st in order to be nominated as an officer or at-large member of the Executive Committee. You must be a member in good standing as of September 17th to nominate someone. You must be a member in good standing as of October 16th to vote in the unit elections on November 15th.
Who leads the local NAACP is important. Not just the president, but the vice presidents, the secretary, the treasurer, and the members of the Executive Committee. The leadership sets the unit agenda and engages partner organizations so that the PW NAACP can more effectively accomplish its mission. It would be great if more of our members with vast leadership experience would consider joining the leadership team of the PW NAACP to help us move forward.
The Prince William NAACP Education Committee is committed to ensure that every disadvantaged student and student of color graduates ready for college or a career by ensuring access to great teaching, fair discipline, equitable resources and challenging curriculum.
After careful examination of the Prince William County Public School (PWCS) 2014-15 School Profile data, the Prince William NAACP Education Committee targeted six (6) schools in eastern Prince William County located on the route 1 corridor. The schools targeted were schools accredited with warning. These schools include:
Belmont Elementary Fred Lynn Middle Freedom High
Dumfries Elementary Rippon Middle
Potomac High (Although Potomac was listed as Accredited with Warning on the online School Profile Data Sheet, we found out at the principal’s meeting that Potomac HS had gained their accreditation for 2014-15)
The purpose of the meetings was to meet with the principal and other administrative staff to identify the strategies that were in place to strengthen family and community engagement and to offer support to enhance and develop the following strategies:
Please click here to read the report developed by the Education Committee.
The 2016 Virginia State Conference NAACP will hold it’s 81st Annual Convention at the Westin Hotel, 400 Courthouse Square in Alexandria Virginia on October 28 – 30, 2016. Click here for a flyer containing the details on this event and here for a Letter from the Virginia State Conference President Linda Thomas urging participation.
The League of Women Voters, a non-partisan organization, is holding a forum on August 24th from 7- 9 PM at the Central Community Library located at 8601 Mathis Avenue in Manassas. The topic of the forum is “Schools and Discipline: A Discussion on Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline.” As this is an extremely important issue to the African American community, we hope you will attend the discussion. Click here for a flyer containing additional information.
Unit Member Florence Stewart is coordinating the Voter Registration effort for the PW NAACP. A number of volunteers are needed if we are to be successful in reaching out to the community to contact and help register unregistered voters. Florence has developed a form to recruit volunteers to assist with a number of activities. Click here to access a form to use in volunteering to help with this important effort. Please review the form and complete it by identifying areas in which you are willing to assist. Upon completion, please e-mail the form to PoliticalAction@pwnaacp.org.
