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Eliminate Gender Disparities and Advancing Gender Equity
The NAACP will urge all of its Units to work to identify key local issues that seek to close gender disparities in our communities.
Supports Decriminalization and Regulation of Medical-and Adult-Use of Cannabis
The NAACP calls for Congress to remove cannabis from the list of federal controlled substances and provide federal grants to states seekingto implement entrepreneurship opportunities and job creation in the cannabis industry for low-income individuals and people of color from communities that have been disproportionately impacted by marijuana arrests and prosecutions.
Missing African American Women and Children in the United States of America
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People encourage that more federal funding be allocated to agencies, groups, and organizations for the purpose of researching and locating missing women and children of color.
The Call for the NAACP to Support Bail Reform in America
The NAACP will support efforts to implement risk assessment systems to replace money bail.
Decertification of Law Enforcement Officers
The NAACP calls for all states governments to report decertified officers to a national decertification index to ensure that decertification is effective across state lines.
Opposition to Stacking Charges
NAACP units will actively advocate against policies and practices resulting in the stacking of charges by prosecutors at every level of government.
NAACP Condemnation of Islamophobia
The NAACP encourages its units to support educational awareness opportunities to promote dialogue, understanding and tolerance.
Supporting Imposing a National Surcharge on Bullet Sales to Offset Healthcare and Infrastructure Costs
The NAACP further supports a national surcharge on ammunition, the proceeds of which should go towards our local, state, and national health care needs and systems to help alleviate the high monetary cost of gun violence.
NAACP Election Procedures
The NAACP Elections Procedure Manual will help branch officials conduct effective, transparent elections.
Unleashing the Power of the People: Lessons on Public Engagement forEnvironmental and Climate Justice
Explore winning change tactics that have successfully engaged communities in environment and climate justice and achieved campaign aims at the state and local levels.
Gun Violence Prevention Issue Brief
All-too easy access to guns and ammunition as well as the resulting gun violence are a major and deadly problem in the United States. NAACP is monitoring 12 proposals to prevent gun violence.