Hempstead NAACP

10/13/2026

10/10/2026

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10/06/2026

Democracy is a team sport.

TOMORROW, October 6, NAACP, 100 Black Men Of America, Inc., The National Urban League, Black Men Vote, and Woke Vote are convening a national organizing call to mobilize Black men ahead of election season.

This working session is for leaders, organizers, chapters, members, and partners to prepare to turn relationships into action.

On the agenda: national strategy, upcoming activations, and organizing resources.

RSVP today: https://naacp.org/events/national-black-man-voter-day-rally-call

10/01/2026

09/26/2026

In September 1861, just months after the Civil War began, a Black woman named Mary Smith Peake sat beneath a large live oak tree near Fort Monroe, Virginia, and began teaching formerly enslaved men, women, and children how to read. She was already gravely ill with tuberculosis and would die less than a year later, but she kept teaching anyway, because she believed literacy could not wait. 🌳

The tree became known as the Emancipation Oak. Fort Monroe itself had earned the nickname "Freedom's Fortress," because the Union general there had refused to return escaped enslaved people to Confederate owners, classifying them instead as "contraband of war," a legal loophole that effectively made the fort one of the first places in the country where enslaved people could reach safety before the Emancipation Proclamation even existed.

Peake's class under that oak eventually grew into the institution now known as Hampton University, one of the nation's oldest historically Black colleges. The tree itself still stands today on Hampton's campus, well over 100 years old, its canopy now stretching nearly 100 feet wide, and it is where the first Southern reading of the Emancipation Proclamation is believed to have taken place in January 1863. 📖

A dying woman teaching children under a tree became a university that still stands. What do you think she would say if she could see it now?

09/26/2026

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09/25/2026

In 40 days, we will either overwhelm the polls, or we will hand our future to people who never had to earn it.

09/17/2026

Every vote FROM our community is a vote FOR our community. From economic equity and reproductive rights to immigration policy and educational opportunity, the issues that impact our daily lives are on the ballot every time we cast our votes.

Today, on , we're committed to making sure every eligible voter has the information and resources they need to register and make their voice heard.

Register yourself. Register your family. Register your friends. Our power is only as strong as our numbers. https://naacp.org/events/national-voter-registration-day