The CIAA is the nationâs oldest black athletic conference, created more than 100 years ago by all-black colleges and universities that sprang up just before and after the Civil War when few white schools admitted African-Americans. So the yearly tournament is more than a week of basketball.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American organization that was founded on 12 February 1909 to promote the rights of minorities.he NAACP is an initialism for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP began in with W.E.B. DeBois's Niagara Movement.
That's why Gordon's goal of reframing the NAACP mission (or in his words, the NAACP brand) with a laser focus on building black wealth, leveraging black spending power, growing black-owned businesses, and bringing sorely needed jobs and resources to black communities, is right on point.