Winston-salem, NC — The nation’s Colleges will be the incubators for new soldiers in America’s civil rights struggle, Kweisi Mfume told a group of students.
“I believe the NAACP has got to go where the future is and the future clearly is on college campuses throughout this nation,” said Mfume, the new president and CEO of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.
“I made a commitment to the organization and a very serious promise to myself that if nothing else this organization would reinvent itself by understanding and embracing generational change.”
Mfume spoke at the Winston. Salem State University recently as part of the 51st Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament, one of his first speaking engagements after being installed as the new head of the NAACP.
The CIAA tournament brings together men’s and women’s basketball teams from more than a dozen historically black colleges and universities in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. This year, an estimated 20,000 alumni and student athletes attended the week-long tournament.
Mfume told the students that it was no coincidence that he spent his second official day on the job at a college to create support among young people.
“The NAACP is back, but more importantly, it’s all right now to come back home to the NAACP,” Mfume said.
