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Looking for a gift for that recent grad in your life? Empower him or her with a membership to the NAACP: bit.ly/L5Jo0M about 16 hours ago via web
Wishing a very happy birthday to our Chairman @roslynbrock! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… about 18 hours ago via web
Leadership500 Here's a recap of this weekend's Leadership 500 Summit: tinyurl.com/7ekjnhz #L500 12:55 PM May 29th via HootSuite Retweeted by NAACP and 7 others
What a dynamic panel with @MichaelEDyson @MARLONLWAYANS @bishopjdixon Cle "Bone"Sloan, Vincent Southerland, Scot X. #L500 #TrayvonTownhall. 11:45 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@MichaelEDyson: "We need to teach our children to have a health resentment for injustice anywhere." #L500 11:04 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@MichaelEDyson: Need to teach our kids the value of progress and the consequences of racial identity, burdens that accompanies it. #L500 11:03 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@bishopjdixon: "The change that our nation needs to see is in your hands and not ours, young man" #L500 10:58 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@bishopjdixon: "Keep building content so your content shapes your conversation, your conversation with dictate the company you keep." #L500 10:58 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@MARLONLWAYANS: "Be a leader. It start the moment you make a choice to be a leader." #L500 10:57 AM May 26th via HootSuite
Question from student in audience: What advice do you have for me to make my future better? #L500 10:56 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@MichaelEDyson on leadership of NAACP with @roslynbrock, @BenJealous: "That is a beautiful, mind-changing paradigmatic shift" #L500 10:55 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@MichaelEDyson: "Men needs to have spaces or spots where they can express their vulnerabilities" Quotes Jay-Z verse as example. #L500 10:54 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@bishopjdixon: "Local elections matter. Find out who is funding your local elections." #L500 thisismyvote.org. 10:51 AM May 26th via HootSuite
Last tweet in reference to the gang mentality, culture of despair. "Most guys were getting life", said Bone. #L500 10:46 AM May 26th via HootSuite
Audience member addressed Bone's earlier comment that getting 10 years in prison was "doing well". #L500 10:44 AM May 26th via HootSuite
Audience question asks about prayer in school, racial profiling in class. Southerland currently explaining school-to-prison pipeline. #L500 10:41 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@bishopjdixon: "In small settings, we need to convince these kids that we love them, and we want them to succeed." #L500 10:38 AM May 26th via HootSuite
Question from audience asks ab bringing law enforcement, gang members together. Bone Sloan: "My advice: start small with grassroots." #L500 10:37 AM May 26th via HootSuite
.@MichaelEDyson discusses the perils of the romanticization of imposed segregation for Blacks. #L500 10:34 AM May 26th via HootSuite
Esdaile: Socially we've advanced, but economically integration has hurt us. Had more black millionaires in the '50s than we do now. #L500 10:30 AM May 26th via HootSuite

Name The NAACP
Location ÜT: 34.152113,-118.446081
Web http://www.naacp.org
Bio Founded February 12, 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization.