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ANALYSIS: Hotels’ Dismal Hiring of Blacks
The nation’s corporate hotel industry is woefully failing to hire African American managers and minority-owned companies in a fast-growing, overwhelmingly white trade, according to a…
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Roland Martin talks with Ben Jealous about the impact of the black vote on President Obama's re-election.
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NAACP Urges Thorough Investigation into Attack on Louisiana Woman
(Winnsboro, LA) – The NAACP urged authorities to fully investigate a gang attack in Louisiana after Sharmeka Moffitt was attacked and burned in Civitan Park…
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NAACP Takes Bid to Ensure US Ex-Con Voting to UN
GENEVA (AP) — The NAACP is taking to the U.N. its effort to ensure that all former convicted felons in the United States can vote.…
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First White President of NAACP Chapter at HBCU Found Dead
Michael Teasley, the first white person to be president of a NAACP chapter at a historically black college and university (HBCU) was found dead at…
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Racial Motivation Behind Miss. Hit-and-Run?
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi NAACP on Tuesday called on state and federal authorities to investigate whether the hit-and-run killing of a black man…
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Politics Week in Review
It was a Sister Souljah moment. Mitt Romney went to the NAACP, in what some assumed was a quixotic effort, to suggest that his policies…
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No Obama? No Problem
Vice President Joe Biden Thursday gave a raucous rebuke of likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s NAACP speech, defending the health care law and warning…
Michael Cottman
COMMENTARY: Long on Clichés, Short on Substance
Mitt Romney gave it his best shot – and got booed. “If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community,…
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COMMENTARY: Obama Sidesteps NAACP Confab
President Barack Obama is skipping the NAACP’s annual convention this week in what some are calling a snub to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization…
