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Evanston/North Shore NAACP President's Report


April 19, 2022

Met with Fran Joy and Rose Cannon to discuss how our branch might play a role in  assisting local Black artists. Discussed many potential initiatives. Settled on helping  with an Art Show in Evanston. Asked Willie Shaw to talk with Fran and Rose to discuss  potential logistics. 

Asked to serve on the Evanston Hospital Community Advisory Board. First meeting  was held March 22nd. A presentation on North Shore’s Diversity and Inclusion was  given by Brandon Buchanan. Doug Silverstein, President and CEO was part of the  meeting.  
Met with Dr. Reuben Howard from Oakton Community College. The purpose of the  meeting was to receive information about the Emory Williams Academy for Black Men.  The OCC is recruiting young Black men to join the Academy to advance their  education and achieve their goals. It is led by dedicated Black faculty and staff. The  Academy is designed to help students enter college on the right footing and navigate  their way through classes, tearing down any barriers along the way. Mario Borha is the  Program Chair. Contact information is oabm@oakton.edu, 847.635.1654.  

Met with Dr. Cynthia Wilson to discus the Junius B. Dotson Institute for Music and  Worship in the Black Church and Beyond. This new institute is housed within Garrett  Evangelical Theological Seminary. It is intended to provide ongoing training and  mentoring in the areas of contextual worship and sacred music born out of the Black  Church traditions. The institute will have periodic workshops and seminars around the  nation (including here in Evanston) where local church musicians, worship & theatre  arts people can participate. You can visit garrett.edu/dotsoninstitute for further  information. 

Traveled to Washington, DC and Howard University Law School to present at an  International Reparations Conference. The conference featured Evanston Reparations  as a key model for growing reparation movements around the nation. Ruben Carranza  offered a report as the Director of the Reparative Justice Program at the International  Center for Transitional Justice. Justin Hansford, Executive Director of the Thurgood  Marshall Civil Rights Center at the Law School was one of the moderators. Virginie  Ladisch, a senior expert at the ICTJ offered an update on work in Canada, Colombia,  Ivory Coast, Cyprus, Liberia, Kenya, Nepal, Tunisia and Uganda. Linda Mann form  Columbia University was one of the sponsors of the conference. Over sixty people  from around the nation attended. Reparation initiatives are moving in St. Louis,  Washington, DC’s Georgetown University, Tulsa, OK, PG County, Maryland, Detroit, MI,  Brown Grove, VA, New Orleans, LA, Amherst, MA, Southwest, GA, Chicago, IL, San  Francisco, CA and Providence, RI. A brief description is below: 

Eyewitness Report from Reparations 2022 Gathering at Howard University Law  School 


Over sixty people arrived from around the country to share their stories about local  reparations. Areas covered included; Basic Human Rights, Community Reparations,  Restore Home & Family, Reparations, Epigenetic Repair, Trauma Informed Reparative  Care, Health Care, Redress the Racial Wealth Gap, Cash Payment for Reparations,  Reparations as Housing Grants, Income Generating Repairs, Land Based Reparations,  Public Safety & Peace Building, Environmental Justice, Self-Determination, Equal  Access to Education, Decolonize the Academy, End Policing in Schools, Mass  Liberation and more.  


I share this so that we may begin to see the largesse of reparations occurring, growing  and widening in our nation. From San Francisco to Amherst, from Boston to Tulsa,  from Washington DC to Evanston, from Missouri to Georgia, from New Orleans to New  York City not a single group said, "No, you got it wrong. This is what reparations is!"  Every group agreed that location and the organic energy of the people determines  addressing the greatest needs.  

Please know this, Black, white, Latinx, Filipino, European, Jewish, and others all  gathered together on the historic grounds of Howard, in the historic building of the Law  School. Easily, some of the most brilliant people on earth, whose motivation is to repair  damage done to Black people because of the egregious reality of racism, were in the  number. I will never forget Billi Wilkerson- Managing Director of Howard's Law School,  Karen Wilson Ama' Echefu- brilliant Fulbright Scholar and writer, Justin Hansford Executive Director and Law Professor of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at  Howard, Sheryl Evans- Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights  Commission, Ruben Carranza- Director of Reparative Justice for the International  Center for Transitional Justice and the incredible students at the Law School and  undergraduates at Howard.  


Oh and we had a strong Evanston delegation led by our own Robin Simmons.  On Friday evening we had a private tour of the African American Museum. Starting at  the lowest level and 1619, we became immersed in our story, slowly working our way  up steep ramps. We moved from West Africa, to slave ships, to auction blocks, to slave  plantations....trauma was in every step. We then moved from the Civil War to  Reconstruction, to the Ku Klux Klan to lynchings, to towns burned down by racists, to  separate but equal, to systemic and structural racism embedded in every sector of the  United States. More trauma. Then we moved to the Civil Right Movement, to  redlining, to voter suppression, to Barak Obama becoming President of the United  States. Finally, we moved to the top of the Museum. Exhausted both physically and  mentally, we went to the reception room and in the darkened skies of Washington, DC  we saw the Congress Building, the Washington and Jefferson Monuments and the  epicenter of the nation. 


We sat down, fellowshipped, had a wonderful dinner, marveling at what had just  transpired. And it did not go unnoticed by anyone, that our goal of reparations was  now firmly planted in the very soil of the Declaration of Independence, the "I Have a  Dream Speech", the Million Man March, and the unwavering conviction that nothing  can stop us. Nothing. Reparations is coming. Reparations is here. 
 
Met with Isabelle Butera, a Medill student who is writing a story about the late Mayor  Lorraine Morton. She was interested in learning about Mayor Morton and her role in  civil rights and social justice in the Evanston community.  


Attended a luncheon at the James Allen Center at Northwestern with President Morton  Schapiro and Garrett President Javier Viera. Dr. Viera offered Dr. Schapiro a gift and  thanks for thirteen years of service at Northwestern University. The luncheon included  community leaders along with administrators and faculty from the University.  


Reported out on the confirmation of Kentanji Brown Jackson as the next United  States Supreme Court Justice:  

One day after the historic confirmation of Kentanji Brown-Jackson, I bask in the  afterglow of justice. But I rage and seethe in obvious flames of racism and sexism that  were manifest at yesterday's confirmation hearing. I really need my friends and allies  to understand this bruising reality.  

Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to serve as Vice President was  prepared to read the confirmation of Kentanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to  be seated on the Supreme Court. Just before this historic moment that has never  occurred in the 246 years since the United States was founded, a massive exodus  occurred in the Senate Chambers. En masse, Republicans walked out...before the  confirmation. Three of them stayed; Susan Collins- Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska and  Mitt Romney- Utah.  

All the others completely vanquished any and all rights they have as civil, humane,  compassionate and caring Americans by fully disrespecting two of the most powerful  Black women in our country. In full view. They include six women and one "black"  man. Forty-seven people were not ashamed to make a visible, public display of  shunning the shift of power from white males to women of color. That's a damn  shame. Please remember their names and let us work hard to end their reign of terror  in our nation.  

John Barrasso R-Wyo. 
Marsha Blackburn R-Tenn. 
Roy Blunt R-Mo. 
John Boozman R-Ark. 
Mike Braun R-Ind. 
Richard Burr R-N.C. 
Shelley Moore Capito R-W.Va.
Bill Cassidy R-La. 
John Cornyn R-Tex. 
Tom Cotton R-Ark. 
Kevin Cramer R-N.D.
Mike Crapo R-Idaho 
Ted Cruz R-Tex. 
Steve Daines R-Mont. 
Joni Ernst R-Iowa 
Deb Fischer R-Neb. 
Lindsey O. Graham R-S.C.
Charles E. Grassley R-Iowa
Bill Hagerty R-Tenn. 
Josh Hawley R-Mo. 
John Hoeven R-N.D. 
Cindy Hyde-Smith R-Miss.
James M. Inhofe R-Okla.
Ron Johnson R-Wis. 
John Neely Kennedy R-La.
James Lankford R-Okla.
Mike Lee R-Utah 
Cynthia Lummis R-Wyo.
Roger Marshall R-Kan.
Mitch McConnell R-Ky.
Jerry Moran R-Kan. 
Rand Paul R-Ky. 
Rob Portman R-Ohio
James E. Risch R-Idaho
Mike Rounds R-S.D. 
Marco Rubio R-Fla. 
Ben Sasse R-Neb. 
Rick Scott R-Fla. 
Tim Scott R-S.C. 
Richard C. Shelby R-Ala.
Dan Sullivan R-Alaska
John Thune R-S.D. 
Thom Tillis R-N.C. 
Patrick J. Toomey R-Pa.
Tommy Tuberville R-Ala.
Roger Wicker R-Miss.
Todd C. Young R-Ind.

As Submitted To Executive Committee
Rev. Dr. Michael Nabors President
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