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What do you think are the major challenges
facing the Boston Branch of the NAACP?

They need to find new ways to communicate the issues where it’s relevant to people under the age of 36. Our medium of communication is not the medium they grew up with.

 T Lawrence Ware
Student
Pembroke
Black people in Boston don’t support the NAACP the way they should. They need to build more support. This organization is on its last feet.

 Arthur Hughes
Retired
South End
They need more members and funding. When they were down on Mass. Ave., the condition of the place was embarrassing. It needs to be more visible and more anchored.

 Melvin Hubert
Chef
South Boston
The NAACP is irrelevant today. They were effective in the civil rights era. We are in a new era. They have to get young leadership with ideas that are relevant.

 Emmanuel D. Matthews
Retired
Dorchester
They need to keep up with the changes happening in our community as well as focusing on the issues they used to focus on.

 Karan Valentini
Banker
Roxbury
They should be paying more attention to what’s going on in our neighborhoods — violence, gangs, drugs. We need more positive role models to talk to our kids.

 Lori Watson
Financial Analyst
Dorchester