(Winnsboro, LA) – The NAACP urged authorities to fully investigate a gang attack in Louisiana after Sharmeka Moffitt was attacked and burned in Civitan Park on Sunday. Authorities have confirmed that racial slurs were spray-painted on Moffitt’s car, including the N-word and the phrase “KKK”. Authorities are looking into whether race was a factor in […]
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. A delegation from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was holding meetings Tuesday at the United Nation's Geneva office in part to press the world body to […]
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 the age of 40 in his apartment in Mississippi. Teasley, a student at Jackson State University and president of the chapter in 2010. He faced a lot of backlash for […]
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 was racially motivated. A white 17-year-old male has been charged with murder in the July 22 death of Johnny Lee Butts, authorities said. The 61-year-old was struck by a vehicle […]
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 would ultimately be better for black Americans than President Obama’s. He was roundly booed. No surprise there; but if anyone thinks Romney was offended by his reception at the nation’s […]
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 that a Romney White House would be a threat to civil rights and voting rights. Biden reeled off President Barack Obama’s first-term accomplishments, from killing Osama bin Laden to approving […]
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, you are looking at him,” Romney said with a straight face as he addressed the NAACP's national convention Wednesday. “I want you to know that if I did not believe […]
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 at a time when the black unemployment rate has skyrocketed to 14.4 percent – twice the rate of whites. The decision to dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to Houston on […]
MIAMI (AP) — The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts “to codify discrimination or hatred into the law.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board voted at a leadership retreat in Miami to back a resolution supporting marriage equality, calling the position […]
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 […]
During Black History Month, we tend to get more reflective about how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go to reach the kind of equity the civil rights soldiers fought for. The answer depends on who you ask and what kind of day we’re having. Point to the election of President […]
In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the NAACP urged Congress Tuesday to swiftly take up a decade-old bill that would define and examine how much of a problem racial profiling is in America. On a day when the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on racial profiling, Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington […]
