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WE ARE NAACP
We are the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice.
We advocate, agitate, and litigate for the civil rights due to Black America.
In our cities, schools, companies, and courtrooms, we are the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall, and many other giants.
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Black Lives Matter Foundation is an abolition-centered foundation fighting institutional injustice and serving Black people globally. We fund organizations and individuals leading policy and abolitionist efforts and partner with organizations and individuals who offer direct services to support the needs of Black communities.
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The National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) is a (501) (c)(3) nonprofit organization. NCBW serves as a nonpartisan voice of advocacy on issues affecting the appointment of women at all levels of public and private industry with a goal to increase the participation of Black women in the educational, public, economic, and social arenas.
With headquarters in Washington, DC and chapters across the United States, our goal at NCBW is to provide women at all societal levels with the tools they need to succeed in five program areas: growing women’s networks, improving women’s health, youth education, entrepreneurship and access to technology.
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Who We Are
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”®
For more than seven decades, this principle has remained at the heart of UNCF, enabling us to raise more than $5 billion and help more than 500,000 students and counting not just attend college, but thrive, graduate and become leaders.
We do this in three ways: By awarding more than 12,000 students scholarships, worth more than $65 million, each year. By providing financial support to 37 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). And by serving as the nation’s leading advocate for the importance of minority education and community engagement.
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Sankofa Bird
The word Sankofa is from the Asante Twi language of the Akan people of Western Africa. This area, which we now know as Ghana and the Ivory Coast, is where many of those captured and sold into slavery bound for the "New World" originated. Its literal translation comes from the Akan proverb, "Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenkyiri," meaning, "It is not taboo to go back for what you forgot." "to go back and get it" or "learn from the past to build the future" are modern translations. The power of Sankofa centers around this: "to know history and your heritage is to know your current self, the world around you, and how to better both." The symbol has been embraced by a number of Africana Studies departments and institutions to signify the quest for wisdom, acquired by reflecting on the past, in order to help build a stronger future. There must be movement and new learning as time passes. And as this forward march proceeds, the knowledge of the past must never be forgotten.
