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Most meetings make their way onto the calendar, but some materialize out of thin air. Brianna Reaves might stop by the James Farmer Multicultural Center (JFMC) to run something by advisor Chris Williams. Next thing you know, Bilqiis Sheikh-Issa shows up, followed by Maya Jenkins and Dana Norwood.<\/p>\n

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UMW President Troy Paino (middle, suit and tie) poses with members of UMW’s new chapter of the NAACP. The chapter was chartered last May.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it\u2019s on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t come in to talk about business, yet somehow all of us are here,\u201d Reaves, a sophomore who serves as president of UMW\u2019s new NAACP college chapter, said of its executive board.<\/p>\n

The board\u2019s a sisterhood of sorts, a collection of young women, plus assistant secretary Cameron Washington and assistant treasurer Lewis Geter, who are ready to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to get this fledgling group off the ground. They feed off each other\u2019s energy \u2013 meeting for hours and marking up whiteboards like nobody\u2019s business. Focused on the NAACP\u2019s civil rights mission, they\u2019re set to make change, no matter how small.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t start a wave without a ripple,\u201d Sheikh-Issa, a first-year student who serves as vice president, said of the chapter, chartered last May.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what happened \u2013 a ripple turned into a wave \u2013 when Williams became JFMC assistant director in September 2017. The Fredericksburg branch of the NAACP had been floating for a while the idea of a UMW chapter and asked JFMC Director Marion Sanford and Williams for help. Farmer, the late civil rights icon and Mary Washington history professor for whom the center is named, had been active in the organization, so it made sense, Williams said.<\/p>\n

He went to work bringing Mary Washington into the mix of the more than 600 NAACP youth councils and college chapters \u2013 consisting of young but full-fledged association members \u2013 that exist today. Involving students every step of the way, Williams recruited executive board members \u2013 go-getters with lofty ambitions and leadership skills \u2013 who could bring the group to life. They gauged campus enthusiasm and worked to increase it, doubling interest in a matter of months.<\/p>\n

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Bilqiis Sheikh-Issa, vice president of UMW’s NAACP chapter, asks a question during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. keynote address in January. Photo by Karen Pearlman. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Members of UMW’s chapter of the NAACP pose beside the James Farmer bust on Campus Walk. Pictured in front are chapter vice president Bilqiis Sheikh-Issa (left) and president Brianna “Breezy” Reaves. <\/div> <\/div>
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From left to right, Blake Barnes, former president of the Virginia NAACP\u2019s Youth and College Division, poses with UMW student Khaila Nelson, UMW NAACP former president Kelsey Chavers ’19 and current president Brianna Reaves at the Virginia State Conference, where the NAACP at UMW chapter won the “On Your Way” award. <\/div> <\/div>
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From left to right, UMW junior Mandy Byrd, who serves the University’s NAACP chapter in a technical capacity, poses with Nehemia Abel, winner of this year’s Citizenship Award for Diversity Leadership, and UMW NAACP chapter president Brianna “Breezy” Reaves. Photo by Karen Pearlman. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say enough about their commitment and dedication,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

Dues-paying members work to promote human and civil rights, social justice, activism and advocacy. Separate committees tackle health, education, political action, finance, press and publicity, and community outreach. This year \u2013 during UMW\u2019s Farmer Legacy 2020 celebration \u2013 they\u2019re focused on voter registration and criminal justice.<\/p>\n

There are fundraisers, socials and movie nights, but this group \u2013 now 40 strong \u2013 goes further. The executive board acts as role models, monitoring student concern during tense times, like when the white supremacist group Patriot Front has plastered stickers across campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a blood oath,\u201d said Reaves, who\u2019s also vice president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP\u2019s Youth and College Division. \u201cThink about the civil rights movement. They weren\u2019t just doing it for themselves. They were doing it for their kids and their kids\u2019 kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Group members plan carefully, scouring schoolboard and city council meeting agendas for red-flag items, and know how to fly into action when needed. Last fall, for example, they rallied to help stay the execution of Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed. And, when those on a trip tracing the route of the 1961 Freedom Rides found no marker at the Anniston, Alabama, site where a bus carrying 13 was firebombed, they got on their phones to try get one placed there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s putting in work that the average student might not even think about,\u201d Sheikh-Issa said.<\/p>\n

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James Farmer Multicultural Center Assistant Director Chris Williams (left) talks with UMW President Troy Paino and wife Kelly at the Fredericksburg NAACP Branch MLK Day Breakfast in January. Williams is advisor to UMW’s new chapter of the NAACP, chartered last May. Photo by Karen Pearlman. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Members of UMW’s NAACP chapter pose with Sen. Mark Warner at the Fredericksburg NAACP Branch MLK Breakfast. Photo by Karen Pearlman. <\/div> <\/div>
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Xavier Richardson (right) presents a commendation to Kelsey Chavers ’19 (center) and Brianna “Breezy” Reaves, two of the founding members of UMW’s NAACP chapter. Reaves took over as chapter president when Chavers graduated in December. Photo by Karen Pearlman. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Recent honors \u2013 a statewide \u201cOn Our Way\u201d award for new chapters; and a commendation from Del. Josh Cole (D-28th District) for founding members Reaves and Williams, plus Aminah Abdullahi, Amber Brown, Khaila Nelson and\u00a02019 graduate Kelsey Chavers, former president \u2013 prove they\u2019re on the right track.<\/p>\n

Sheikh-Issa best summed it up: \u201cWe\u2019re doing something beyond what it means to be a college student but rather, what it means to be black in America and how that translates into making a better world for those who come after us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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