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MLK 2020get involved Today!
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NOT A DAY OFF. IT’S A DAY OF SERVICE.
Celebrating the MLK Holiday 2020
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday brings millions of Americans together for a day of national service and conversations to improve and betters our communities. Join us locally to keep our community looking good #teamuptocleanup and a follow up panel conversation on the school to prison pipeline in which the following will be addressed:
- Inclusiveness, sense of belonging, feeling of acceptance, making roots and connections, a sense of giving and taking.
- Ability to contribute to community, free of barriers, where everybody feels safe, where trust is present, and mistakes are learning opportunities.
- Cultural identity remains strong and is seen as an asset.
- The experience and definition of integration is personal.
- Having a voice that is taken seriously in a community in which one identifies as belonging and is recognized by all as a true community member.
community service
Starting the MLK Day: “Team Up to Clean Up”
We are requesting that you spend your morning with the NAACP Cheltenham Area Branch by teaming up to clean up the exit ramp at Rt. 309 and Paper Mill Road Exit named in honoring Bishop David and Catherine Graham.
The Branch will be honoring the memory of the late Bishop David and Catherine Graham, who were local legends in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties. Both were very active in the Civil Rights Movement in Philadelphia. They served our community in many capacities, from marching for equality, planning in the Girard College protest, voter rights initiatives (having had 2 family members lynched in 1959 in South Carolina while registering voters) and feeding the homeless from their own Church based ministries.
Let’s get the exit at Rt. 309 and Paper Mill Road back in tip top condition and keep our community beautiful.
#teamuptocleanup
RESPECTING AND TAKING CARE OF OUR COMMUNITY
We Can Do It.
Charge Forward
Ending the Day with Panel Discussion: “PLUGGING THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE”
Our MLK Service Day will be followed by a Panel Discussion later that evening on Diversity and Inclusion in which the adversity in the Juvenile Criminal Justice System, Our School Districts, and Law Enforcement and Corrections will be addressed. This event will be held at Arcadia University. These three areas were pivotal in all of Dr. King’s initiatives and agendas.
The location is:
Arcadia University
The Great Room in the University Commons Building
450 S. Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038
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