Naacpbr

03/20/2013

Due to the recent allegations of racism and inequality charged by the Chief of Police of Baton Rouge, the NAACP on Monday, March 25th at 7pm will be making an important resolution at its monthly Branch meeting and we need your help. The meeting will be held at the MLK Center at 4200 Gus Young. We will be requesting that the Mayor and the City Council make diversity of the Police Department a priority and a hiring criteria for appointing the next Chief of Police. Can we count you in!

11/29/2012

The NAACP membership is concerned with the recent incident involving students at one of our city's high school. Our goal is to be just as responsive and engaged as we would be if any student is affected by acts of violence. We ask that if you are interested in being part of the solution of ending violence in the African American community, to please join the NAACP by going to our website at naacpbr.org.

11/23/2012

Help the NAACP celebrate and promote Black business ownership. Make an effort to support a business person. Purchase a service, a product or hire them to do some work. The only way we will create jobs is if "We Create The Jobs". Join the naacp by going to naacpbr.org. We need your help today.

11/23/2012

The only way Black American businesses can improve is if they attract more consumers. The only way to provide more jobs for the community is if they patronize local businesses. The wealth of a community depends upon how many times money circulates or recycles within the community.

11/23/2012

The formula for recycling community dollars has seemingly been mastered in every ethnic community except the Black community. Other ethnic groups set up their community and encourage recycling through various means of communication such as signs, billboards, cultural symbols or language just as the Black community does. Secondly, they set up small businesses to serve each other, just as the Black community does. Thirdly, they spend with each other first before spending with other ethnic groups. This is where the differences lies.

11/23/2012

Help celebrate Black Friday by spending some of your dollars with Black merchants. Of the $875 billion spent by Black consumers how much do you think was re-invested to strengthen their own communities?

What would be the state of the Black economy, if most of these dollars were recycled within the Black business sector? Did you know that if the annual income of Black America was recycled that only twice within the Black community it would surge Black buying power to more than $2 trillion?

11/21/2012

The Baton Rouge NAACP is addressing the fact that students of color face harsher punishments in school than their white peers, leading to a higher number of youth of color incarcerated. Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of confined youth today.

11/21/2012

1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men. That's why we need the NAACP

11/21/2012

Eliminating the racial disparities inherent to our nation’s criminal-justice policies and practices must be at the heart of a renewed, refocused, and reenergized movement for racial justice in America.

10/29/2012

10/26/2012

Today kicks off the launch of the NAACP Economic Department, weekly column discussing financial education tips to improve your economic security. Check out his first article on racial economic inequality and Independent Foreclosure Review as featured on BET.com http://tinyurl.com/8lr7wtp.

New free federal program can help the wrongfully foreclosed.