Newark Branch NAACP gives tribute to the former long-time members Jane and Lit Mitchell who re-activated the Branch in 1992. They taught us the meaning of "shall do, not may do", which places emphasis on “doing” the work of the Branch, which is a calling and is not optional. ​ The Newark Delaware Branch of the NAACP continues to be a voice for the greater Newark and New Castle communities in the struggle against injustice in housing, education, employment, mass incarceration and everywhere discrimination arises in the social, economic and environmental arenas. ​ The Branch has a long history representing the community against discrimination from the days when the Ku Klux Klan was a visible threat to more recent times when hatred and discrimination, once subtle,  have come out of the shadows. We are engaged in improving our education system, including advancing educational equity and fair treatment of children within our public schools and in higher education. We are currently working with the University of Delaware to encourage them to utilize a portion of the substantial funds that they from the State of Delaware to develop programs for low-income and minority student retention. The University should be directed to increase recruitment of low-income and minority students, particularly targeting Delaware students. ​ Our branch continues to expand our Youth Council membership, inviting all youth from birth through age 24 to be a new generation of voices against inequality and injustice. We are active in the preservation of the Black community in Newark and in their resistance to gentrification and the influx of student housing in historic black neighborhoods. ​ We are involved in the fight for environmental justice and disparities in citing sources of pollution in low income and minority communities for the protection of health and quality of life, including the efforts to protect the community from the noxious odors at Peninsula Compost, and the redevelopment of Cleveland Heights, now Alder Creek, to protect the community from contaminated land resulting from the site’s former use as a municipal landfill and wastewater treatment plant. ​ We advocate for healthy and safe communities. The recent redevelopment of the Cleveland Heights public housing project into the new low income housing development Alder Creek raised a historic concern with the safety of the point of ingress/egress on Cleveland Avenue. We advocated for pedestrian and bicycle safety measures on Cleveland Avenue to improve accessibility, reduce the potential for accidents, and encourage healthy outdoor exercise.