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Pine Bluff Interested Citizens for Voter Registration Inc.

MISSION: To improve the quality of life for all citizens with special concerns for youth

Broadmor Elementary School "Anti-bullying and gun violence Prevention Contest winners." We thank Parents, Broadmor Principal, Teachers, Staff, for their PEN OR PENCIL supports in a PBIS and ESL activity.

The Fortieth Annual Original KingFest™ January 2023

We decided to be "UNITED" PBICVR Coffee with the Chiefs

Pine Bluff, Watson Chapel and Dollarway School District participate in PEN OR PENCIL "Nonviolence to No Violence" initiative.

Students signing PEN OR PENCIL Pledge against violence - Youngsters who remain in the PEN OR PENCIL Transformation Initiative have a 97% High School graduation rate

PEN OR PENCIL King Team prepare to march against gun violence downtown Main Street in Pine Bluff

Bishop Henry Hearns, first African American Mayor of Lancaster California, also pastor/author visit with Pine Bluff High School students during the PBICVR MLK Original KINGFEST Week

PEN OR PENCIL students participate in critical thinking skills at Pine Bluff High School

Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter has his rights read to him by PEN OR PENCIL Students assisted by a POP mentor

Testimonies from PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL King Team and the
Woodson Center CAN Alumni

Neighborhood Building and Crime Prevention
Pine Bluff Interested Citizens for Voter Registration, Inc. [PBICVR] serves as Arkansas’ Lead PEN OR PENCIL Affiliate and the Woodson Center Can Affiliate (CAN). PEN OR PENCIL is a national group mentoring program of the National Alliance of Faith and Justice [NAFJ] based in Washington, DC. with affiliates located around the nation whose aim is to encourage youngsters to choose education and to boycott bullying, violence and negative behaviors, and the things which can put them in the pipeline to the juvenile justice system and ultimately get in prison. The Woodson Center Community Affiliate Network has community builders across the nation making an impact and rebuilding community with grassroots leaders. The Woodson Center Curriculum inspires youth with stories about the history of lesser known African Americans

PBICVR Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (PB VITA) Center collaborating with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) since 2006; prepares Federal and State income taxes for low to moderate income citizens free of charge. The PBICVR volunteers have returned millions of dollars back into the pockets of these families for more than a decade.

Pine Bluff Wealth Building Coalition Planning Meeting for 2020 PBWBC Grand Opening of VITA Sites

PBICVR POP student makes trip to Washington, DC and travels to Selma, Alabama for the 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday."

THE MOVING CLASSROOM

Pine Bluff PEN OR PENCIL carried students to Washington, DC and to Selma, Alabama on the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when civil rights activists were attacked by Alabama law enforcement as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge however, two weeks later Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and people from across the nation gathered to march hand in hand across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery for equal treatment and voting rights. The Interested Citizens for Voter Registration, Inc. Arkansas' lead Pen or Pencil affiliate for the National Alliance of Faith and Justice in Washington, DC is collaborating with Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site to participate in Selma to Montgomery, Alabama project called, Pen or Pencil "Let Me Read You Your Rights Moving Classroom," scheduled took place March 19-25, 2015. The Arkansas delegation and 150 youth plus two distinguished professionals representing law and education. "The centerpiece of the journey was the week-long “Walking and Riding Classroom” (54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama), which will reveal the determination of youth and adults to change the attitudes of a nation and to stimulate and empower participants to share with peers and a broader audiences the ongoing struggle for human rights." - Rev. Jesse C. Turner, NAFJ PEN OR PENCIL program director.

PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL King Team complete community service project of weeding, cleaning and planting flowers in planters at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park - To join the King Team call 870.730.1131

PBICVR POP King Team students visit Mr. Henri Linton at UAPB to learn African American history of AM&N/UAPB and Pine Bluff

Mr. Codney Washington a PEN OR PENCIL mentor works with students at Robert F. Morehead Middle School

POP Nonviolence to Noviolence rally at Watson Chapel Junior High School

Working with children from Nonviolence to No Violence March

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PBICVR PEN OR PENCIL students participate in a B.U.S. Boycott, go 40 days without negative behaviors and Let Me Read You Your Rights activity at Robert F. Morehead Middle School