NAACP President Benjamin Jealous applauds Obama's call for Senate to send him a jobs bill The president of the NAACP is applauding President ...
Family plans civil rights lawsuit over Pittsburgh teen's allegations he was beaten by police The family of a teenager who said three police ...
Few blacks attend Coast Guard Academy despite 8-year-old deal Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation ...
Kan. NAACP chapter demands public apology for 'RedNeck Rap' lawmaker posted online; he refuses The NAACP's Kansas chapter is demanding that a state legislator apologize publicly for a video criticizing Barack Obama that he called "RedNeck Rap" and posted online. Republican state ...
Providence Journal says no reference to race intended in cartoon of lawmaker as shoeshine boy The Providence Journal says it's "saddened" some readers have been offended by an editorial cartoon depicting a mixed-race Rhode Island lawmaker as a shoeshine boy. The cartoon, ...
The president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP has endorsed an anti-gay gubernatorial candidate The president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP has endorsed anti-gay Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats. The Rev. Keith A. Ratliff Sr. endorsed Vander Plaats ...
The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation's first such statewide drive. The relatively few votes at stake — only a ...
NAACP calls for greater police oversight, training after man killed inside Illinois church The NAACP is renewing a push for federal standards on police use of force after the shooting of an unarmed black man by two white police officers inside a ...
Firm forged letters from NAACP, Latino group to lawmaker on climate bill A Washington grassroots lobbying firm has acknowledged forging anti-climate bill letters purporting to be from a local NAACP chapter and a Latino advocacy group to a Virginia lawmaker, and a ...
Infighting, debt hurt Southern-based civil rights group struggling to rebuild in Obama era The organization that gave birth to the modern civil rights movement is in danger of missing out on a chance to capitalize on the country's conversation on race, despite ...
Analysis: Obama embraces historic role at NAACP convention, challenges black America Through his first six months as president, Barack Obama has tended to shy away from the historical significance and potential influence of his role as the nation's first black president. But ...
Obama thanks NAACP for its accomplishments, calls for a second century of civil rights work Saying that civil rights leaders from decades past paved the way for his election as the nation's first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama paid homage ...
