By The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) Washington, DC – The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is excited to announce that prolific educator, community organizer, and civil rights advocate Dr. A. Lois Keith will serve as the NCNW’s new Chair of the Board, steering the organization’s vision into 2023 and beyond. […]
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Posted inNational News
Majestically she stands
Dear NCNW Members, All two million of us should be beaming with untold pride as our renowned Founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, stands majestically, exuding power and an invitational presence, in the Capitol of the United States of America!!! What an unprecedented glorious week in American history this has been!!! If the world did not […]
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March on Washington Thoughts
For at least two centuries, August 28th has been associated with freedom and expansion of democratic ideals and principles. The British Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. Ten suffragists were arrested […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
NCNW Reacts to the 100 year commemoration of the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma
A thriving community of professional African Americans in the Greenwood District. The aftermath of a neighborhood being bombed and set ablaze. This travesty of justice must never happen again. The massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street, is one of many instances where the loss of life, […]
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The death of George Floyd – Flashback to the Jim Crow South
When I watched the video of bystanders pleading with Police Officer Derek Chauvin to take his knee off of George Floyd’s neck where it was for nine minutes and 29 seconds, I felt what most conscientious Americans felt –outrage and profound grief. And like many Black Americans of my generation, I had flashbacks to growing […]