Greater Bridgeport Section, NCNW

06/21/2026

06/21/2026

We must be as vigilant about our history as we are about our vote.

From a friend: "On Juneteenth, I remember my recent visit to the site of Lumpkin’s Jail in Richmond.
It was once one of the largest slave pens in the United States, as well as an auction site and lodging house for slave traders. It was known as the Devil’s Half-Acre.
Today, it sits just feet from an Interstate 95 off-ramp. There is no towering monument. Much of the site appears as an empty lot beneath railroad tracks and the shadow of the highway. I have driven past it dozens of times without realizing what stood there.
Richmond was second only to New Orleans as a slave market. Hundreds of thousands of enslaved people passed through the city on their way south. Many were marched in chained coffles from Maryland, Virginia, and the Upper South through Shockoe Bottom and onward to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
Standing there, I was struck by how easily history can disappear from the landscape.
To reach the site, I passed a large sign for the Virginia Holocaust Museum, located just a few yard away. It seems fitting to be so close to remebering another time when people seperates families and treated others like disposable animals.
Reportedly, when Union soldiers opened Lumpkin’s Jail, the crowd broke into song:
Slavery chain done broke at last!
Broke at last! Broke at last!
Slavery chain done broke at last!
Gonna praise God till I die!
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom. It is also a reminder to remember the places where freedom was denied—and the voices that rejoiced when freedom finally came.
The site had not vanished. It had simply been buried.
Juneteenth is a day to celebrate freedom. It is also a day to remember the places where freedom was denied, and to ask why some histories remain visible while others are so easily forgotten.
Let us never forget."

06/19/2026

NCNW Greater Bridgeport Section celebrates Juneteenth Day, which commemorates the official end of slavery in the United States on June 19th, 1865.

05/15/2026

Connecticut NCNW with our national executive director, Rev. Shavone Arline-Bradley last night at the New Haven NAACP Freedom Fund dinner. She is a phenomenal speaker!

05/09/2026

https://19thnews.org/2026/05/revolutionary-america-250-domestic-worker-rights/?utm_source=The+19th&utm_campaign=f8e4b0194a-19th-newsletters-daily-0507&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-be3d85c373-382791465

Adriana George lived and witnessed injustices while working as a nanny. In the spirit of our founding principles of freedom and equality, she's now working to expand the rights of domestic workers.

04/30/2026

For informational purposes only

Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.

04/29/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/29/us/supreme-court-voting-rights?smid=nytcore-android-share

The court’s conservative majority said it upheld the landmark law, but the liberals in their dissent accused them of gutting it. In the case, the justices ruled that a Louisiana voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

04/28/2026

Scenes from our membership tea. A good time was had by all! Well done Monti!