JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, citing “grave legal concerns,” is asking a Missouri judge to convene...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Authorities are looking for a man who may have information about a homemade explosive that someone set off near the Colorado...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Tennessee Williams said, “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that is also a hypocrite.” I could...
Martha Waggoner, ASSOCIATED PRESS BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) — The black teenager was found in a North Carolina trailer park, hanging from a swing set by...
DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The civil rights drama “Selma” led all films Tuesday when it collected eight nominations for NAACP...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Officials from the National Action Network, the National Urban League the National Bar Association, the...
(USA Today) – Just after a heated summer that included a handful of fatalities at the hands of police that raised questions of racism, the...
In the latest installment of the Florida Courier’s series on Blacks and mental health, we review the Miami Herald’s spotlight on the state’s inability to handle...
(USA Today) – Labor advocates are claiming a big victory after a federal agency said Tuesday that McDonald’s central, corporate operations can be lumped in...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden urged the NAACP on Wednesday to spread the word about what he called “a hailstorm” of measures...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Civil rights leaders at the NAACP annual convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday worried that dwindling African-American turnout in November could...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – One year after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Victims who were sterilized in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974 – approximately 7,600 people – have...
Media Veronica Clemons Wells Fargo 704-715-5145 Veronica.c.clemons@wellsfargo.com Nicole Kenney NAACP 202-478-6409 nkenney@naacpnet.org Latraviette D. Smith-Wilson National Urban League 212-558-5433 lsmithadv@nul.org DES MOINES, Iowa – May 29,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES] WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A search firm hired by the NAACP ranked Rev. Frederick D. Haynes,...
Leon Jenkins resigns amid Sterling scandal Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly The interim president of the NAACP’s Los Angeles chapter said recently it was...
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned following outrage over a decision he...
By Zenobia Jeffries Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Leon Jenkins, the Los Angeles branch NAACP president who awarded LA Clippers basketball team owner...
[Los Angeles Times] The head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP is coming under scrutiny in the wake of the organization’s decision to give...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) – Howard University Journalism Professor Clint C. Wilson II’s broad criticism of the Black Press proves that...
MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Just months after stepping down as head of the largest U.S. civil rights organization, former NAACP...
What could they be thinking? by Natalie Cole Special to the NNPA from the Our Weekly The primary and most trustworthy source of news and information...
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The FBI on Tuesday was helping investigate who tied a noose around the neck of a University of Mississippi statue of James...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A “concerned” U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler is expected to rule next week on whether advertising she...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped disorderly conduct, trespassing and resisting arrest charges against South Carolina NAACP Lonnie Randolph the same day his trial was...
