Black leaders from Washington, Oregon and Alaska gathered on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus to workshop on the modern fight for civil rights.
FastCast digital headlines for Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024ANCHORAGE, Alaska - African American civil rights leaders from Washington, Oregon and Alaska gathered Saturday on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus to workshop their next steps as an organization.
NAACP members traveled to Anchorage for a yearly convention that began with a reception Friday. Saturday multiple workshops on organizational structure and member training were accompanied by keynote speakers Celeste Hodge Growden of the Alaska Black Caucus and indigenous storyteller and educator Gyasi Ross.
NAACP members said on Saturday their intent is on training successors in the civil rights movement and also to simultaneously welcome non-members to join.
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