NAACP-Pasadena

So proud of them all and what is happening undercover in our community! Congratulations to all our participants of our 2nd Cohort graduating last night now the real work begins as they move from manifesting to a reality seen in community. They moved from teaching from their seats to presenting their projects and facilitating excellence.✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO CREATING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS THAT PREVENT COMMUNITY VIOLENCE.

The Institute provides leadership development and training that empowers participants to understand community violence and its root causes and create solutions that change the narrative to community empowerment and peace.

The following were the classes of the 2nd Cohort. Thank you to

Orientation
Mental Health
Communication/ Gang Dynamics/ License to Operate
Trauma
Mother’s Panel / Financial Fear
Organizing
Gender Dynamics/Rape Culture
Leadership Development
Restorative Justice
Group Work Projects
Graduation.

This morning at a press conference outside Pasadena Police Department 3 other officers are now joined with Officer Crutchfield and suing the PPD and the city. Each case is different but all leads to harassment, discrimination, physical assault and being pushed out of the department. Officer Shelby Jarvis, Officer Milton White, Officer Taison Crutchfield and Officer Arthur Robinson who spoke this morning for himself has left the department due to the pressure of the color of his skin. It’s so interesting three of them are community officers and have a great reputation in the community. Their family members spoke for them today calling on the support of the community as BLACK OFFICERS WHO UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY ARE BEING ERASED✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

Second Pasadena police officer files retaliation, discrimination claim against city Pasadena Police Officer Jarvis Shelby has filed a claim against the city, alleging among other offenses that a commander put him in a headlock, resulting in injuries. It’s the second such cla…

Tonight was so much fun at for annual Christmas walk and caroling. A great community event with John Muir cheerleading squad, did their thing and gospel choir SANG down with cookies and cocoa yes it looking a lot like Christmas 🎄📸 🎤. Tyron Hampton Cushon Bell

THIS FRIDAY! On Friday Nov 17th please join us for latest play “Inherit The Wind”✨🎭✊🏿✊🏾❤️ USE code POP to support the work of social justice in Pasadena and beyond. As we begin our 2024 campaign “Get Out The Vote Increase The Vote”

Announcement from our NAACP Pasadena Branch that our Ruby McKnight Willam’s Awards have been changed to Thursday March 21st 2024 in FULL SUPPORT of the ongoing labor strike at Hilton Pasadena. If you have tickets they are honored for the new date ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 MLK on March 18, 1968, King affirmed the value of the sanitation workers' labor, saying, “Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity, and it has worth.”

The journey of our 2nd Cohort week 6 Organizing was facilitated by myself 😳 it has taken years of learning and unlearning but to stand before my community and move from teaching from my seat to giving tools and understanding has been a humbling journey that I owe many who have invested in helping me so very much. The Institute is about acquiring tools to invest in our lives and the community. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 Brotha K-Rahn Flintridge Center

Tonight is our Ruby McKnight Honorees dinner Tournament of Roses House as we get to hear from the honorees and celebrate them before the big night🌹

The 35th NAACP Ruby McKnight Williams Awards Dinner will be held on November 30, 2023 at the Hilton Pasadena. We are honoring a list of community members in the second slide. A grand evening is being planned for our Honorees and Guests. We look forward to seeing you there to acknowledge Celebrations, Challenges and Creativity: And Still We Rise✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽. Tickets can be purchased in our bio or QR code on post.

Ladies of the NAACP branch executive members and our at the opening of Jackie Robinson Pool dedicated to the late Mr John Kennedy.✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

Pasadena Tenants and Landlords/Property Managers!
The Pasadena Rental Housing Board is hosting two online public workshops: one for tenants and one of landlords. Please share widely!

Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM
LANDLORD AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://bit.ly/LandlordWorkshop

Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023, 6:30 PM
TENANT WORKSHOP--Navigating Measure H –
Pasadena Fair and Equitable Housing Charter Amendment
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://bit.ly/TenantWkShop

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My TRIBE Rise and First To Third cordially invites you to our 3rd Annual Smushball Tournament and Community Activation Fair, Saturday November 4, 2023, 12pm to 6pm, at Loma Alta Park!

Enjoy a fun, vibrant, and energetic day of Smushball, Bounce House, Boomsquad Family Performers, Live DJ, Live Performers, Meditation, Great Food and Retail Vendors, Resource Booths, Intragenerational Art and Crafts Activities, Board Games, Marching Band, Drummers, MTR Kids Community and SO MUCH MORE! Altadena and Pasadena THIS IS FOR YOU!

FREE EVENT!

WHAT IS SMUSHBALL?

Smushball functions like baseball but instead replaces a standard hardball with a ‘smush ball’, which is softer in texture, feel, and slower in speed. The tournament is open for sign-ups of 12 teams with a minimum of 9 playing members. Intergenerational players are encouraged to participate starting from 7-year-old children, parents, uncles, aunts to 80-year-old grandparents are welcome to play.

JOIN THE FUN!
Activate Loma Alta Park with us! Our goal is focused on the youth. We bring family and community together to engage in fun and positive intergenerational activities. WE OUTSIDE!

Have YOUR TEAM join the Smushball Tournament, as your family, friends and community, cheer them on, and enjoy the great activation booths happening throughout the day.

Want to be a Vendor, Volunteer or have YOUR TEAM join the tournament? CLICK HERE:
https://tinyurl.com/3rdSmushball

https://conta.cc/3LOOu8t

NAACP 35TH AWARDS DINNER - NOVEMBER 30, 2023 Celebrations, Challenges, and Creativity: And Still We Rise PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Celebrations, Challenges, and Creativity: And Still We Rise The 35th NAACP Pasadena Ruby McKnight Williams Awards Dinn

The 35th NAACP Ruby McKnight Williams Awards Dinner will be held on November 30, 2023 at the Hilton Pasadena. A grand evening is being planned for our Honorees and Guests. We look forward to seeing you there to acknowledge Celebrations, Challenges and Creativity: And Still We Rise.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naacp-pasadena-branch-35th-ruby-mcknight-williams-awards-dinner-2023-tickets-729486853817

Next week Wednesday October 4th at 6pm Community Police Oversight Commission Ad Hoc Committee with are hosting a Meet and Greet for the community to meet our IPA Mr Dr Rosenthal. A time to personally meet him. Ask your questions and hear the goals he has for the CPOC to achieve in the next few years. This event will NOT be on zoom or recorded so please PULL UP and get to meet other commissioners as well. You asked so we answered as police accountability is very important to each resident and visitor of our city✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

OUR 2ND COHORT IS ABOUT TO BEGIN ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH 8AM TILL 12NOON✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO CREATING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS THAT PREVENT COMMUNITY VIOLENCE.

The Vision 2020 Institute is a community-driven approach to creating sustainable solutions that prevent community violence. The Institute provides leadership development and training that empowers participants to understand community violence and its root causes.

We invite you to join and become part of this collective effort.

EACH SESSION WILL COVER A TRAINING MODULE DESIGNED TO UNDERSTAND, CREATE, AND IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES TO PREVENT ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE.
SESSIONS WILL COVER...
TRAUMA.
COMMUNITY HISTORY & DYNAMICS. COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

COHORT 1 WILL WILL MEET FRIDAYS FROM 8AM- 1PM FOR 12 WEEKS.

SESSION # 1

STARTS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24TH 2023 AND ENDS FRIDAY, MAY 12TH 2023

CASH STIPENDS FOR ALL CHOSEN PARTICIPANTS.

For more information:

please contact
CHRIS @ 626 590 5215
FLORENCE @ [email protected]

Hey Pasadena Teens,
Can we Talk?🙋🏽‍♀️🧑🏽‍🦱🧑🏿‍🦱

🗯️Teen Talks offer teens an opportunity of their stories and talk about the important stuff to them.

We want to create a safe space where they can be themselves and get the support they need to succeed at home, school, and the community. 🧑🏾‍🦱👩🏾‍🦱

🗯️EJ Warren, LFMT, will lead the 9/23 dialogue on how to advocate for themselves and to have productive dialogue🗣️

We hope to equip our teens with tools to thrive at home, in school, and in the community. 👏🏾👏🏾

Join us and bring a friend. Registration link in bio

https://forms.gle/o7UojaDTqzNUyUFP6 (https://forms.gle/o7UojaDTqzNUyUFP6)

Community please SAVE THE DATE! Tuesday November 30th at 6 o’clock HILTON Pasadena! It’s been THREE years let’s come to celebrate one another and our rich Pasadena community✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

THIS MONDAY✨ It’s that time again to support all returning students at John Muir a tradition started by join and community leaders cheering on the students👧🏾👦🏿👦🏾👧🏿📚📓☀️

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: Yass, we love to see it! Tennessee state Reps. and won elections Thursday night and will fully rejoin the state legislature. The two Democrats were members of the ‘Tennessee Three’ who were expelled by Republicans in April for protesting in support of gun safety on the chamber floor. (📸: )

That is all that matters thank you community❤️

REPOST ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 Delilah Simmons. Pasadena Ca area. 14yrs old any information please DM. Repost please 🙏

THE 2ND ANNUAL BLACK AUGUST FILM FESTIVAL MIXER AUGUST 18TH
7PM - 10PM.
A SPACE FOR SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 70 FILMS FROM 22 COUNTRIES
COME MEET SOME OF THE FILMMAKERS AND ARTISTS SHOWING THAT WEEKEND IN PASADENA.

PLUS ITS FREE!!! DONATIONS ACCEPTED AND MORE INFORMATION TO PURCHASE TICKETS TO ANY OF THE 200 MOVIES BEING SHOWN or www.blackaugustfilmfestival.com.

PASADENA. PULL UP LETS SUPPORT AND GIVE FLOWERS TO THESE UPCOMING FILMS🎬🍿🎞️📽️📸☀️❤️

Support support support✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 August 5th

Join the ladies of on Friday 28th at our local branch 595 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena , 91103 from 6pm to 8pm💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

Good afternoon youth and families,

Looking for family-friendly summer events? Day One is hosting SOS (7 days of Summer) this year. Join us for 7 days of fun and local summer events. Dip your toes in the sand, cool off, and enjoy the warm summer evenings. Fun for the whole family! To register, scan the QR code on the flyer Day One

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Buenas tardes jóvenes y familias,

¿Buscas eventos de verano para toda la familia? Day One está organizando SOS (7 días de verano) este año. Únase a nosotros durante 7 días de diversión y eventos locales de verano. Sumerja los dedos de los pies en la arena, refresquese y disfrute de las cálidas noches de verano. ¡Diversión para toda la familia! Para registrarse, escanee el código QR en el volante✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽☀️✨

Dr. Sandra Thomas, our Legendary Community Mother, Educator and Public Servant, is moving to her home in Kansas City in July.

Please join us as we celebrate all and who she is and her great work to our communities.

DATE: JULY 22, 2023
TIME: 4:30pm to 7:30pm
LOCATION: Metropolitan Baptist Church

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tribute-and-celebration-for-dr-sandra-thomas-tickets-674756002367

Douglass was invited to address the citizens of Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on the 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of millions of people.

A portion of Douglass’s speech is below:

Mr. President, Friends, and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion.

The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th [of] July oration. This certainly sounds large, and out of the common way, for it is true that I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall, and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect gage I think I have of Corinthian Hall, seems to free me from embarrassment.

The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight.

Source: blackpast.org

Just like that we took millions of steps back🙃

Supreme Court strikes down race-based affirmative action in college admissions In another major reversal, the Supreme Court forbids the use of race as an admissions factor at colleges and universities.

Great article Shotspotter is technology that the police say they need and after close to 2 years, $325,000.00 dollars later 189 alerts police have 2 arrests and the alert did not work in the one death sometimes it is just hard to admit maybe just maybe they got it wrong to just listen in to NW only District 1,3 and 5 because crime doesn’t happen anywhere else’s in Pasadena right WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

RECEIPTS NEED TO BE SHOWN ABOUT THE SHOT-SPOTTER'S EFFECTIVENESS OPINION by Veronica A.

Pasadena let’s support in a way we can to twice robbed sheesh🥊❤️✊🏿🙌🏿✨ First now another black owned bussinness getting hit thank you for uplifting their story. https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-06-27/joe-hanks-brick-city-boxing-pasadena-gym-robbed

Celebrate Black History & Juneteenth with a curated walking tour of significant historic sites for the African American Community in Pasadena. Our walk leader, Allen Edson, President of the NAACP Pasadena Branch, will share his extensive knowledge of the history behind the locations that many Pasadena residents pass by every day.

For more details and to RSVP, scan the QR code or visit Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/652115243247 (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/652115243247)

This walking tour is a collaboration of the NAACP Pasadena Branch, the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition and Day One.


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Tomorrow show up for 📚✊🏿☀️

THIS story is complex but has many levels that we as a community want deescalation from our officers in the community but when a young officer who was raised in our community stands up and says that is not right that officer is disciplined to the degree that their job is on the line. What message does that send to other young people in our community who want to apply and understand the community✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾

https://pasadenablackpages.com/police/f/ppd-trying-to-fire-a-black-officer-who-stopped-excessive-force

Celebrate Black History & Juneteenth with a curated walking tour of significant historic sites for the African American Community in Pasadena. Our walk leader, Allen Edson, President of the NAACP Pasadena Branch, will share his extensive knowledge of the history behind the locations that many Pasadena residents pass by every day.

For more details and to RSVP, scan the QR code or visit Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/652115243247

This walking tour is a collaboration of the NAACP Pasadena Branch, the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition and Day One.

ROLLER JAM JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION is less than TWO WEEKS AWAY!!! Mark your calendars!

Saturday, June 17 • 4-9p @ Pasadena City Hall

Great music, food trucks, art, vendors, and of course ROLLER SKATING!

Get ready to lace up and have a good time wit ya folx! Let’s get it!

Brought to you by the good folx of , , and

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June 1st APPLY! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

Last week before the special Police Oversight Commission invited a few of the commissioners into his office. When doing work in community through the tensions to find solutions that bring justice for all its so worth it thank you to the community that the branch has a seat at the table✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽