Is the right to display a Confederate flag a matter of free speech? Or should anything related to a government function, whether it is a building or an instrument of law, remain unfettered by symbols that are offensive to millions? While the answer seems obvious, this debate is heating up again as our nation endures […]
FLORIDA – The NAACP has joined forces with Latino and human rights groups to oppose bills in the Florida senate that would require law enforcement agencies to racially profile. Politic365 reports: These bills “would require law enforcement officials in Florida to engage in racial profiling – an insidious practice all too familiar to racial and […]
Nashville, Tenn. — Nashville’s NAACP wants to have a sit down meeting with the mayor and police chief about what they call a “chronic problem” with recruiting and promoting black officers.
The L.A. Times has uncovered emails between Obama administration officials regarding the firing of Shirley Sherrod from the Agriculture Department over statements taken out of context by right wing blogger, Andrew Breitbart. Hundreds of pages of e-mails released to the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington Bureau under the Freedom of Information Act provide a detailed, behind-the-scenes […]
As a coalition of liberal activists gather in Washington, NAACP President Ben Jealous tells CNN that the “One Nation” movement is not “the alternative to the Tea Party, we’re the antidote to the Tea Party.”
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous talks to Bernie McCain today about the One Nation Working Together Rallies and march on October 2, 2010 in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands of people from all backgrounds, faiths, heritage, identities and hues from across America have put aside their differences and come together as a united voice for […]
With a strong voice and the memories that come from experience, William McDonald shared with East Texans about a world that once was.
VIA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks, who revitalized a faltering NAACP in the 1980s and spent a lifetime championing the nation’s minorities and needy, died Thursday morning. Hooks, 85, passed away at his Nashville, Tenn., home following a long illness, said state Rep. Ulysses Jones. While probably best known for his […]
The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Roslyn M. Brock, 44, was chosen to succeed Julian Bond. She had been vice chairman since 2001 and a member of the NAACP for 25 years. Brock works for Bon Secours Health Systems in Maryland as vice president […]
VIA:Â NAACP.Org The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald […]
