President Brower made the following comments while passing along the two items of information below:
“The attached information is provided from your Virginia State Conference (VSC) of the NAACP. The leadership of the VSC has put together this information in an effort to help keep the members of the NAACP informed of the things that are going on and to equip the members of the NAACP to more effectively engage in advocacy. I hope that with the review of this material you might be further energized to press for a more active unit in 2016. We need active members, committed to supporting at least one of our standing committees.
Empowerment through Advocacy and Accountability.”
Item # 1: Carlton T. Mayers, II, Esq., Criminal Justice Manager, Criminal Justice Dept. NAACP National Headquarters provided this new Ban the Box video to promote its Ban the Box Initiative.
Item # 2: A Power Point training session by Mandla Deskins at the Virginia State Convention last week, which covered performing advocacy in the NAACP.