EDITOR’S NOTE: Listen to the interview exclusive between Roland Martin and Ben Jealous above. Benjamin Todd Jealous, the youngest president ever elected to lead the NAACP, will resign on Dec. 31 saying he wants to spend more time with his wife and children. In an interview with USA TODAY, Jealous said the demands of travel […]
US Attorney General Eric Holder faces a tough decision as civil rights group petition the Department of Justice to press federal civil rights charges against…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana far more often than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a new study. The ACLU’s analysis of federal crime data, released Tuesday, found marijuana arrest rates for black people were 3.73 […]
I’m throwing down a gauntlet. And I’m throwing it right at the feet of NAACP CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. Protocol says that it’s Jealous who’s supposed to pick up that gauntlet. But if he doesn’t pick it up, I’ll pick it up. And I just might pimp slap him with it. I’m challenging Jealous to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the NAACP said Sunday that even some members of the New York Police Department oppose the city’s policy of street stops, with mostly minorities being questioned. Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the congregation of the Nazarene Congregational Church in […]
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous has a bold suggestion for President Barack Obama: Appoint an African American woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. “He still has several more appointments, and we expect that we’ll see at least the same diversity that we saw the first time around,” Jealous told POLITICO. “What we’re hoping to see is […]
Roland Martin talks with Ben Jealous about the impact of the black vote on President Obama's re-election.
The NAACP is leading a coalition that has launched a 50-state, nonpartisan registration and education campaign in response to what it calls “an unprecedented and coordinated attack on ballot access” that could keep up to 5 million voters away from the polls in 2012. “When our community was celebrating in 2008 the breaking of the […]
