NAACP NEWS Spotsylvania County Branch #7117 February 2021 P.O. Box 1762 – Fredericksburg, VA 22402 (540) 847-7637 – Email: [email protected] Pastor Moe Petway – President -Email: [email protected] Dea. Leonard Parker - Vice President *Rev. Randy E. Phillips Sr. - Treasurer Dina Vales - Secretary *Faye Jones – Co-Editor ------BLACK’S CONTINUES TO MAKE HISTORY! ------BLACK HISTORY PROGRAM (ZOOM) ON FEB 20 AT 11AM -1PM ------*African Americans Continue to Make History by *Branch Will Conduct a Black History Month Program Being the First to Achieve Their Status! In recent and Host “A Community Conversation” February 20, years people of color have continued to break barriers, shatter 11am -1 pm (zoom). The event will feature young people glass ceilings and rise to the top of their professions. Not only was expressing themselves by presenting their talents through song, President Barack Obama the 1st African American elected as instrument, poem, recital, etc. Participants will be allowed to President and Kamala Harris the 1st female and African American choose a talent that best suits them (2-3 minutes limit). The event to be Vice-President, but also Ret. General Llyod Austin the 1st will also be informative as well as allowing for a dialogue with African American to serve as the Secretary of Defense. Locally, community members on a range of topics. For more information last year Deborah Frazier became the 1st African American to be call Pastor Hargrove at 540-538-3575 or Megan Brooks 540- elected to the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors in its 300-year 388-3201. history. *This is an Election Year for Three (3) Local District *“Kamala Devi Harris” The 1st Female and 1st African Positions. The Board of Supervisors and School Board American Vice-President in The Nation’s History! positions are up for election this year. The three Madam Vice President Kamala Harris Shatters the Glass Ceiling. districts are Battlefield, Lee Hill and Berkley. The The Glass Ceiling serves as the unseen, yet unbreakable barrier branch is looking for people to run. that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or *Democracy is Precious & Worth Fighting For! achievements. . . until today! Vice President, Kamala Harris made Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, history as the first African American and woman of color to and for the people. It is up to us (the people), to protect it. ascend to the office of vice president, a position that has been held We must unite! We must work together to maintain by an uninterrupted line of white men throughout the history of the US. We want our children to believe that they can do whatever “DEMOCRACY” despite our differences. they set their sights on and apply their efforts to achieve as well as inspire them toward such greatness. Vice President Harris makes *PLEASE JOIN US IN COMMENDING THE that statement a real possibility. However, we will never forget SPOTSYLVANIA SCHOOL BOARD FOR HAVING THE Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, one of the trailblazers who COURAGE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF “ROBERT E. was instrumental in paving the way for the accession of Vice LEE SCHOOL”. President Harris. Congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm, was the first Black congresswoman (1968), representing New York State in the *Please Visit Our Website and Facebook Page! U.S. House of Representatives for seven terms. She went on to -Website: NAACPSpotsylvania.org run for the 1972 Democratic nomination for the presidency— -Facebook: Spotsylvania NAACP becoming the first major-party African American candidate to do so. Congresswoman Chisholm put a crack in the Glass Ceiling. *NOTE: Due to the Pandemic Monthly Meetings are ZOOM! On today, our young girls of color have witnessed history as Vice MEETINGS HELD: President Harris went one step further and shattered it. 1st Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Mt. Zion Baptist Church Important Repost: COVID-19 Deaths are 6030 Harrison Road, Fredericksburg 22407 Disproportionately Higher in The Black Communities! (Corner of Harrison & Piedmont Road, Spotsylvania County)

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