The North Carolina Divine Nine, a group of nine historically African-American Panhellenic fraternities and sororities, held a press conference today at the General Assembly to announce the group’s advocacy agenda for the 2019-2020 year.
Tejuan Manners, district director of the Association of North Carolina Alphamen, described six areas of emphasis in the group’s policy agenda: criminal justice reform, voting reform, accessible health care, improved public education, economic empowerment and housing justice and assuring a full count in the 2020 Census.
Nicole Dozier, director of the Health Advocacy Project at the North Carolina Justice Center (the parent organization of NC Policy Watch), specifically addressed the importance of closing the Medicaid coverage gap while decrying the decision of state legislative leaders to keep North Carolina in what she called the “mean-spirited minority” that have refused to expand the program.
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