Brooks: Young people remind NAACP of need for activism

National president speaks at convention

Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People, center, and Rev. Dr. Francys Johnson, president of the NAACP Georgia State Conference, listen and approve as Rev. Jean owens of the Origninal First African Baptist Church of Statesboro sings a spiritual during the Georgia NAACP 73rd Annual State Convention and Civil Rights Conference Membership Luncheon at Georgia Southern University Friday.

W 100915 NAACP 02 — Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People, center, and Rev. Dr. Francys Johnson, president of the NAACP Georgia State Conference, listen and approve as Rev. Jean owens of the Origninal First African Baptist Church of Statesboro sings a spiritual during the Georgia NAACP 73rd Annual State Convention and Civil Rights Conference Membership Luncheon at Georgia Southern University Friday.

Speaking in Statesboro, Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, proclaimed youth-inspired relevance for the 106-year-old civil rights organization and urged members to greater activism on issues from voting rights and a living wage to ending racial profiling. Brooks gave the keynote speech Friday at the 73rd annual Georgia NAACP State Convention, which had convened Thursday. The convention continues today, when Statesboro’s own Dr. Francys Johnson will be nominated for re-election to a second two-year term as NAACP state president.

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