BALTIMORE (AP) — The NAACP has selected a former House of Representatives clerk as an interim president and CEO while the organization seeks a new leader....
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Five years ago, Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the midst of varying proposals for housing reform, civil rights leaders are publicly calling for lawmakers to keep mortgage lending...
By Ryan Cooper Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel About three years ago, in late March 2010, Shirley Sherrod, who was then the...
FEMA’s Craig Fugate and the NAACP’s Ben Jealous shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding. (PHOTO: DUANE C. FERNANDEZ, SR./HARDNOTTS PHOTOGRAPHY) by James Harper Special...
by Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA from the Arizona Informant PHOENIX (NNPA) – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona filed...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Dudley Randall’s poem, “It seems to me, said Booker T, I disagree, said W.E.B.” points out an issue that has plagued...
Special to the NNPA from The Wilmington Journal WILMINGTON, N.C. – Seventeen people, including eight ministers, civil rights leaders, and students, were arrested for a prayerful protest...
by Danny L. White Special to the NNPA from the Arizona Informant The Maricopa Branch NAACP is investigating and questioning whether or not a 14 year...
A Parent’s Agony By Danny L. White Special to the NNPA from The Arizona Informant PHOENIX (NNPA) – An 11-year-old African American male student at Laveen...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent Rep. Marcia Fudge says Blacks Need to Press their Case WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A few weeks after President Barack Obama...
by Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA from the Wilmington Journal WILMINGTON, N.C. – Now that the Wilmington Ten, after more than 40 years, have been...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As I have reflected on the year just ended, I noticed everyone doing their usual year-end lists of the biggest...
By Benjamin Todd Jealous NNPA Guest Columnist Every generation believes their children deserve to be better off than they were. This belief inspired the first slave...
Reverend Al Sharpton, president and founder of the National Action Network addresses the media after meeting with more than 40 leaders on a “Black Agenda” in...
By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA from The Wilmington Journal WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) – The national NAACP has now joined its North Carolina conference of...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Millions of Black American families observed Thanksgiving this week. We have much to be thankful and grateful for. Yet...
By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA from the Wilmington Journal WILMINGTON, N.C. [NNPA] – Now that the 2012 presidential elections are history, supporters for the...
Affirmative Action Supporters Rally at Supreme Court By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – While Supreme Court justices listened to oral arguments in an...
By Stephanie Jones NNPA Columnist Much was made of what Mitt Romney said and didn’t say during his recent speech to the NAACP’s annual convention in...
Mitt Romney met with boos in NAACP speech By Philip Rucker Washington Post [fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=ReLx8Tv4o7U”] HOUSTON — Wading into President Obama’s most supportive constituency Tuesday, Mitt...
