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NAACP Bucks County 2021 Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to this year's scholarship winners! As you enter the next chapter of your life, we wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors.

 

Mia Alamo

Bristol Borough High School

Messiah University

Forensic Pathologist

 

Luke Blackwell

Central Bucks East High School

Carnegie Melon University

Cybersecurity

 

Leah Link

Archbishop Wood High School

Penn State University

Special Education

 

Amy Liu

Central Bucks South High School

Harvard University

Immigration Attorney

 

Griffin Smith

Central Bucks West High School

University of Delaware

Zoology / Physical Therapy

July Events

Planning- Educating- Informing

Always Fighting Forward

  • The 112th NAACP Virtual National Convention and 43rd National ACT-SO competition will be held on July 7th- July 14th.

 

Join forums and workshops with leading policymakers, activists, and organizers to carve out your lane in the important work we have to do under a new presidential administration, growing demands for criminal justice reform, and the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Network with other members in your region. Engage with leadership. Brainstorm solutions to the Black community's most pressing issues.

 

Visit the National NAACP website to register.  

 

  • On Monday, July 12th at 7PM, we will hold our regularly scheduled General Membership Meeting. Lt. Governor, John Fetterman will be our special guest. Click below to register.
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President's Message

 

Do you remember how the Soviet government continually rewrote history, cutting since-purged leaders out of photographs and erasing or distorting past events to keep their citizens ignorant and maintain Communist Party power?  America, just the opposite, was founded on the belief that free speech and a vibrant ecosystem of competing ideas are essential to an educated and empowered community. Only by understanding our past are we able to undertake the most sacred obligation of US citizenship: helping to create a more perfect union.

 

Well, if some local School Board candidates have their way, we’re moving toward the Soviet system of altering history taught in our schools.  School Boards are the latest battleground for extremists, who are drumming up parents’ fear, anger, and anxiety to turn out the vote. They demand we remove any discussion of race from classrooms because, they say, it shames white children and encourages children of color to identify as victims. 

 

What part of our history do they plan to hide from students? Do they want to hide slavery?  Do they want to hide discussions about Jim Crow laws that kept our military and schools segregated and made it next to impossible for Black people to vote?  Can teachers mention bank redlining that kept Black Americans, including World War II veterans who should have benefited from the GI Bill, from buying homes and building financial security for their children?  Or how about the Trail of Tears, or the Reconstruction Era?

 

Without understanding that history, how can children understand our country’s progress? Throughout our history, people of all racial backgrounds fought and struggled so that we would live up to the promise within our founding documents; the then-radical idea that every person is created equal and deserves equal rights. What did our soldiers fight and die for if not this ideal? If children don’t learn about the struggles of our multicultural nation, they cannot be proud of our triumphs.

 

The people of Germany have somehow figured this out.  In German schools, children learn about the Holocaust, despite the fact that many of their grandparents and great-grandparents served as Nazi soldiers or were part of the mobs attacking Jews.  Germany doesn’t hide its extremely uncomfortable history from its children, because it knows that education is essential to ensure it never happens again. So, bringing this back home for us: what would we think about School Boards banning teaching of the Holocaust because they worry it will make Christian children uncomfortable and Jewish children feel like victims? 

 

In the Black community and in immigrant communities, education has always been seen as almost sacred. It’s the key to rising and claiming our share of the American dream. The idea that we need to “protect” children from the facts of our history is a disservice to children of all racial backgrounds.  American history teaches us that each of us needs to strive, as generations have before us, to build a more perfect union.

So check on your School Board candidates. Once they’re elected, they have the power to create informed citizens or ignorant hordes.  Let’s make sure Bucks County schools continue to teach real facts, not distorted history, and prepare our children to build a brighter future.

 

 

Karen Downer

President

NAACP Bucks County Branch #2253

We are looking for Volunteers

We are currently looking for Freedom Fighters who are motivated to do the work. We will have many opportunities in the near future for additional volunteer positions but we are currently looking for members to join our Legislative Sub-Committee Team. Through the work of our current team we have been able to successfully organize letter writing campaigns; formulate calls to action; deliver petitions to lawmakers; and call attention to legislation that we support as well as legislation that we oppose.

 

If you are ready to become a voice for our organization to amplify legislative issues that are important to our organization, please click on the button below and leave your contact information. 

 

If you have further questions regarding the position, feel free to contact us at info@naacpbucks.org.

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Election Day is November 2, 2021

It's never too early to prepare to vote.

The last day to register is October 18, 2021.

The last day to request a mail-in or absentee ballot is October 26, 2021

Register to Vote

Voter Registration Homepage

To vote in Pennsylvania, you must first register to vote at least 15 days before the election. You can register to vote online, by mail, or at a number of government agencies, including Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Photo License and Driver's License Centers.

Mail-In Ballots

Mail-in and Absentee Ballot

October 26, 2021 at 5 pm -APPLICATIONS for a mail-in or absentee ballot must be received by your county election board . November 2, 2021 at 8 pm - VOTED BALLOTS must be RECEIVED by your county election office - postmarks are not enough. Missed the deadline?

P.O. Box 224, Bensalem PA 19020
ph#: 215-364-1057

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