Champaign County NAACP President Rev. Troy Burks
The NAACP Champaign County Branch’s Education Committee is hosting a Meet and Greet on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at
Eastland Suites Hotel & Conference Center
1907 North Cunningham Avenue
Urbana, IL 61802
5:30 to 7 p.m.
The purpose of this very important Meet and Greet is to invite you as well as encourage you to bring friends to come out and meet our newly elected NAACP Board President, Rev. Troy Burks. Rev. Burks is very anxious to share his vision for the Champaign County Branch with our Community .
If you have questions concerning this event, please contact me. My name is Minnie Pearson and I am the Chairperson of the Education Committee for the Branch. ( MinpearL3@aol.com) .
Refreshments will be served and this event promises to be both fun and very informative. You will also be introduced to all of the other Branch Committee Chairs that evening.
May I also ask you to Please forward this email on to family and friends informing them and encouraging them to please attend this very important event. We look forward to seeing you all there on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 5:30.
The general body meeting will be this Thursday
February 3,2011@6:30pm
he Family Advocacy Center
310 W. Church
Champaign,IL
217-607-0546
Please note our new time and location
The eBlack CU Symposium was a great success, with over 180 people attending or all part of the event. The full record of the Symposium is available online for anyone to access at: http://eblackcu.net/portal/symposium. We need to do more to get people and community organizations able and motivated to take advantage of technological tools to better our local community. This follow-up meeting is being organized around the themes of technology, jobs and the future of our local economy. The title of this event is: “Community Technology and UC2B: Careers, Jobs and the Future of our Local Economy.”
NAACP is a cosponsor of this event and we encourage everyone to attend.
Saturday, January 8 · 9:00am – 12:00pm
The Election results are in.
Rev. Troy Burks will take the office of NAACP Champaign County Branch President beginning January, 2011.
On November 18, 2010, the election of officers and at-large Members of the Executive Committee will take place at Champaign Public Main Library, Friends Conference Room 215. Polls will open from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
In order to vote in a Branch election, one must be a member in a good standing of the Branch 30 days prior to the election. A form of identification is required.
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by Rev. Jerome Chambers
“For 100 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has played a pivotal role in shaping a national agenda to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of African Americans and other people who have faced historical discrimination in the United States. And further, to support and leverage the work of our local units, who work tirelessly on behalf of many communities in crisis, by implementing an advocacy agenda to ensure equal justice and safer communities.”
When the Champaign City Council entertained the Champaign Police Department in a discussion as it relates to its use of force policy, the intentional idea surrounded the probable cause of the issues involving the death of 15-year-old Kiwane Carrington. The promotion of this policy was as unfortunate and untimely as the H1N1 flu. No one expected its arrival, especially City Council who appeared to be stumped. The actions of two young boys, soon-to-be men, whose response is typical of 15 year olds has been regrettable, even more so are the actions of two police officers.
We now have to face the reality of the aftermath of this tragedy. It still hurts as much as the inevitable truth. Justice often lifts her blindfold to get a peek at the hearts of men. How tragic, regardless of the color of these boys or the police officers in question. In the midst of the public’s outcry, the men in question are sworn first and one of them is the Chief second. If he (Chief Finney) was in the vicinity as the nearest officer, why wouldn’t he respond? Whether or not he should have been there is a matter of opinion depending upon who you ask. What would any of us have done in that position? The City of Champaign is learning to cope with a reality that has been thrust upon it in a most painful way. It is now out of an act of sobriety of conscience that the City of Champaign will hear the funeral dirge of its taxpayers who will cry loud and hard.
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