NH P.A.N.T.H.E.R.

Plymouth Area Network To Help End Racism

Who We Are

Plymouth Area Network To Help End Racism (NH PANTHER) is a small, volunteer-run, grassroots community organization. We are a collective of youth, professionals, educators, mentors, and friends standing up for the rights of all the disparaged and marginalized in our communities.

NH PANTHER formed in June of 2020 as a response to the murder of George Floyd and in tandem with a growing movement for social justice in the United States.

Our founder, Benjamin Bacote, is a high school humanities teacher, parent of three, and Black. In the summer of 2020, following the lead of their 13 year old son, Ben went to the town common to march, and answered the plea of a former pupil that wanted to ensure future students would be taught an updated, inclusive curriculum.

Our mission

NH PANTHER's mission is to help end racism and systemic biases through community engagement, direct mutual aid, education and curriculum reform, youth empowerment programming, and the arts.

We stand peacefully within the Democratic principles and rights following the New England tradition of civil public discourse. We stand for representation, recognition, and education of all as we seek to correct historic and current inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, gender representation, ability, and age. These inequities exist systematically throughout our country and its institutions, and here, in New Hampshire. We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement sweeping our country. And, we will continue to stand until the promise of our founding words are not just memorized but also realized.

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How We Do It

We are a platform and a community that seeks to showcase the peaceful youth voices of resistance.  As they resist the silencing that occurs, we offer a community to counter being taken for granted, being ignored, or not being recognized as equal. We seek to show up for youth in solidarity.  We seek to engage our community to reflect love and to show love by investing in the lives of the youth. Our focus is:

Youth-Centric — Equity in Education -- Civil Rights


Follow our journey.

Our annual reports are published online and can be found here:

2021

2022

2023