Last night, the NAACP celebrated 100 years of advocating for social justice and the 40th Anniversary of the Image Awards. The Image Awards was a fantastic festive event, filled with pioneers, advocates, activists, artists, and people interested in honoring the legacy of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. I was honored to sit between the regal Attallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, and the beautiful and talented songwriter Saida Garrett—giving me an opportunity to humbly reflect on the gravity of the moment. For more than 100 years, people of African descent have raised their collective and individual voices to sing more than a blues of injustice–and the NAACP has been at the center of this movement. We have fought in the trenches and plowed our way through the mire of discrimination to emerge an increasingly proud people ready to raise the bar. Say it loud!

To help frame this next part of our journey, the NAACP released a white paper describing our priorities for the first year of the Administration and the first year of the next 100 years toward a goal of racial justice. Today, the New York Times reported on the report. Check it out here.

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