NAACP GWU Chapter

Join us on next Monday October 16 in a conversation about affirmative action with our guest speakers!

Happy back to school! Meet the GW NAACP Chapter E-Board!

This past weekend some of our e-board members had the opportunity to volunteer for Veterans Day of Service. We wrote thank you cards to veterans, created bracelets and lanyards for them. It was an amazing opportunity and reminder that our work with NAACP should be centered around continuously giving back to our community. Thank you to and everyone else who volunteered.

This Tuesday, March 7th, GW NAACP will be having its first general body meeting of the semester on the Vern in West Hall B111 at 7:30pm. We will be introducing new executive board members to the community and playing our version of black jeopardy. Prizes will be given away to winners. We are super excited to see you there and can’t wait to meet you all.

THE GW NAACP CHAPTER IS LOOKING FOR MEMBERS TO SERVE AS: SECRETARY, HISTORIAN & TREASURER.
Secretary: This individual should be comfortable with managing the chapter's email regularly, communicating with outside organizations, and sending update emails to people within the chapter regularly.
Treasurer: a.k.a Directors of Finance We are looking for people to join our finance committee to help create and go over the chapter's budgets, assist in hosting fundraisers, & membership fees
Historian: This individual should be comfortable with documenting our events through photographs and write ups. At the end of each year this person will need to compile the photographs and write-ups into a newsletter or scrapbook for our records and future NAACP chapters at GWU. If interested please send us a message .

In the wake of the recent MSU shooting, the George Washington University chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would like to share a few words:

On the night of February 13, 2023, the Michigan State community was stricken with tragedy after a gunman took the lives of three students: Brian Fraser, 20, Alexandria Verner, 20, and Arielle Diamond Anderson, 19. Five other students were also critically wounded in the shooting and are currently being treated at a local hospital. Unfortunately, this incident serves as yet another example of the egregious mass murders which have occurred far too frequently within the American school system. It is our responsibility as a community to continue to advocate for changes within our current system so that we may ensure that incidents such as what occurred last Monday will never be repeated. We stand with the Spartan community and the families of these victims as they continue to mourn the loss of three extraordinarily bright young individuals. We’d like to remind everyone that GW has counseling and psychological services if you need help or someone to talk to. Link: https://healthcenter.gwu.edu/counseling-and-psychological-services

Please join the GW NAACP Chapter, NAACP Chapters in the DMV, and other non-profit organizations for the People’s Rally for Student Debt Cancellation.

We will meet at Foggy Bottom metro station at 9 AM on February 28 and travel together to the Supreme Court.

Lunch will be provided and there I’ll be music and live bands.

To register please fill out the form Link in our bio!

Hope to see you all there!

On January 7, 2023, Mr. Tyre Nichols, a young Black man was beaten to death by five Black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee. The horrific, inhumane, and painful nature of his death should remind us of all of the injustices and imbalance of power in law enforcement and policing that plagues our society. The GW University NAACP Chapter wants to recognize this painful loss and extend our deepest condolences to Nichols’ family, friends and community. We do not condone the actions of these police officers and will work closely with others as best possible to ensure that justice is served on behalf of Mr. Tyre Nichols.

This injustice is the kind of event that we within the Black community and beyond can all recognize occurs too frequently in our society, yet we see little being done to end this cycle of young Black men and women dying at the hands of police officers. Tyre Nichols did not deserve to be beaten in the manner he was and to the extent he was because of a traffic violation. His death, along with other similar deaths in this regard, begs the question of whether the institution of policing will ever respect the laws that they “enforce”?

During Black History Month, but most importantly every day of the year, we urge citizens, law enforcement officials, elected officials and community organizers to actively continue these conversations about these issues. Too often we see these fatalities and injuries happen, talk about them for a little while, and continue to operate without paying attention to the action items that need to be put in place to prevent them from reoccurring until the next incident happens. It is a cycle we are all susceptible to, but it really must end now. BLACK MEN AND WOMEN DESERVE THE RIGHT AND RESPECT OF EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN SOCIETY! THEY DESERVE TO GROW OLD!