
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A planned NAACP press conference at Chicago’s City Hall was briefly scuttled by an angry black protester who slammed establishment Democrat activists and members of President Barack Obama’s fractious progressive and multicultural coalition.
by Lee Stranahan30 Nov 2015, 9:54 PM PST0

As the sixth day of protests over the police-involved shooting of a 17-year-old Chicago teen rages on, members of local NAACP chapters paraded a full-sized coffin outside Chicago’s City Hall, chanting phrases and joining in calls for both Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign their offices.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Nov 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

Dartmouth College’s vice provost for student affairs is attempting to comfort the raucous “Black Lives Matter” activists who are now facing national criticism for unleashing a disruptive, hostile, obscenity-strewn tirade on students studying in the school’s library.
by Dr. Susan Berry17 Nov 2015, 2:49 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s campaign manager Barry Bennett is firing back at an MSNBC guest and NAACP chapter president L. Joy Williams, who labeled Carson a “safe negro” for Republicans.
by Michelle Fields3 Nov 2015, 7:44 PM PST0

As the FBI and Department of Justice have been called in to investigate, new facts are still emerging in what Black Lives Matter activists have dubbed the #AssultAtSpringValleyHigh after videos of a Columbia, South Carolina, deputy forcibly removing a non-compliant student from a desk went viral after the Monday incident.
by Lee Stranahan27 Oct 2015, 6:55 PM PST0

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is demanding that Utah resident Kevin Van Miltenberg remove his homemade Halloween decoration of a man hanging from a noose, calling it a “mockery of the history of lynchings in our country.”
by Jerome Hudson13 Oct 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

Donald Trump can credit much of his meteoric rise to the top of the Republican presidential field to his willingness to air out the dirty laundry of illegal immigration, simultaneously embarrassing both the Republican establishment and the civil rights community.
by Jerome Hudson16 Sep 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

Occupiers from Black Lives Matter and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) descended upon California’s capitol Wednesday by the hundreds, demanding state legislators pass a new bill on racial profiling, and calling on Governor Jerry Brown to sign it.
by Michelle Moons3 Sep 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

On Wednesday, Bakersfield NAACP President Patrick Wayne Jackson was charged with a felony for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, according to ABC 23.
by William Bigelow19 Aug 2015, 4:58 PM PST0

Dolezal and King make it clear that America’s attempts to repair the effects of that horrific history have now made black skin advantageous for a certain subset of activists, which is why people like Dolezal and now allegedly King have masqueraded as black for personal advantage.
by Ben Shapiro19 Aug 2015, 1:52 PM PST0

President and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, said that “The law under which Michael Brown was killed has not been changed” on Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” Brooks said that “the climate in Ferguson has not changed,” and followed
by Trent Baker15 Aug 2015, 3:46 PM PST0

On Monday, the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP will rally to oppose legislation which protects “historical monuments and memorials.” The NCAAP opposes the legislation because it would include Civil War — and therefore, Confederate — monuments and memorials among those protected.
by AWR Hawkins25 Jul 2015, 12:34 PM PST0

On Thursday, the NAACP in Grand Prairie, Texas, staged a protest to defend Demoyas Baker, 27, a worker at the Dalworth Recreational Center who was arrested because he allegedly showed two teenagers a gay child sex tape featuring two 12-year-old boys.
by William Bigelow25 Jul 2015, 10:28 AM PST0

At last week’s annual NAACP convention in Philadelphia, one pastor protested the group’s support for legal abortion, using a huge, attention-grabbing poster of the confederate flag side by side with the picture of an aborted child.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.20 Jul 2015, 4:34 AM PST0

The Sacramento NAACP has blasted the Sacramento News & Review, the same weekly newspaper that requested emails Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson wanted kept secret, for running a cover featuring a cartoon of Johnson that the NAACP says is racist.
by William Bigelow15 Jul 2015, 7:57 AM PST0

On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery. On July 13, the Huntsville, Alabama, chapter of the NAACP said the Confederate battle flag worn by every Alabama state trooper and emblazoned on every trooper’s vehicle needs to go away, as well.
by AWR Hawkins14 Jul 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

For several years, the number of new African-American recruits joining the Philadelphia Police Department has been declining, and now some blacks in Philly, who have recently tried and failed to join the department, are starting to wonder if the city is purposefully denying blacks entry to the department.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Jul 2015, 5:59 PM PST0

In an on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell Williams Brooks commended Bree Newsome, the civil rights activist who climbed the flag pole and removed the Confederate flag at the South Carolina state capitol, on her “patriotic gutsiness.” “I
by Trent Baker11 Jul 2015, 6:50 PM PST0

On Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, President and CEO of NAACP Cornell Williams Brooks explained that after President Barack Obama called for stricter gun laws, the FBI messed up the background check of Charleston, SC shooter Dylann Roof, which led to his
by Trent Baker11 Jul 2015, 3:53 PM PST0

The NAACP’s national office is attacking its own Cincinnati branch, accusing it of trademark infringement and deceptive acts under Ohio law.
by William Bigelow8 Jul 2015, 7:26 PM PST0

Unsatisfied with the removal of the Confederate flag from public places, stores and TV shows, activists are now calling for musician Kid Rock to stop using the banner at concerts.
by Kipp Jones7 Jul 2015, 1:43 PM PST0

Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was slain in the massacre at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dylann Roof killed nine black worshipers, voted for the Confederate flag’s display at the Statehouse on May 3, 2000, when he was a state senator.
by William Bigelow24 Jun 2015, 8:56 PM PST0

A Texas woman just fumes at the mention of Rachel Dolezal, the white Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader who presented herself as black. Verda Byrd, a white woman raised black, maintains: “She lied about her race. I didn’t lie about my race because I didn’t know.”
by Lana Shadwick23 Jun 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom with Carol Costello,” South Carolina Chapter of NAACP president Dr. Lonnie Randoph reacted to the news that President Barack Obama used the s0-called “N-word” on a podcast, and said he was “troubled by hearing that.” Randoph said, “I was a
by Pam Key22 Jun 2015, 8:08 AM PST0

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” national President and CEO of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks reacted to the fatal shooting of 9 parishioners inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC and said the Confederate flag is a symbol of the
by Pam Key21 Jun 2015, 10:37 AM PST0