Deion Sanders has a message for the dozens of NFL players who have opted out of the 2020 season, citing concerns about contracting the coronavirus: The game will be fine without you.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Wednesday evening insisted that voting by mail is secure and said he hoped that more states would implement more reliable vote-by-mail procedures.
NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson accused Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of “robbing from the poor to benefit the rich” as his organization joined a series of lawsuits that seek to block coronavirus relief funds from being granted to private as well as public schools.
School districts in Garland County, Arkansas, are required to comply with a 1989 law that determines parent choice of district based on race.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS Television and the NAACP have reached an agreement to develop content that tells stories of the African American experience.
The president of the Connecticut chapter of the NAACP and a member of the state legislature’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus say Gov. Ned Lamont (D) needs to meet with them as soon as possible to discuss an “insensitive” phrase he used during a recent coronavirus briefing.
Leaders of the civil rights groups that recently launched an advertising boycott of Facebook reportedly stated that they were “disappointed” after a recent meeting with Facebook executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Despite the advertising boycott, Facebook’s stock price hit a record high this week.
Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who claimed to be black in 2015, is now saying that she has been “vindicated” by the Black Lives Matter movement — or at least that is what she claims people have been telling her.
Former NFL player and GOP candidate for Congress in Utah Burgess Owens, blasted the National Football League for its decision to air the “black national anthem” before season opening games this season.
McDonald’s has changed its Twitter display name to “Amplifying Black Voices,” adding a profile banner that lists Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd as victims of “racism” and “systemic oppression.” The
Computer processor giant Intel pledged $1 million to support “social justice” and “anti-racism” via “various nonprofits and community organizations,” announced company CEO Bob Swan in a statement declaring, “Black lives matter. Period.”
Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds is set to give voting rights to about 60,000 convicted felons in time for the 2020 presidential election after meeting with the George Soros-funded ACLU, the NAACP, and Black Lives Matter activists.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. announced on Friday that it has donated $1 million in essential products to the NAACP’s Empowerment Programs.
“Black people in America are not safe,” declared pop star Justin Timberlake in an Instagram rant on Sunday dedicated to Rayshard Brooks, the 27-year-old man killed by police on Saturday in Atlanta, Ga.
The white Hollywood celebrities who starred in a recently released anti-racism PSA are getting blasted by progressive media members who’ve roasted the two-minute video as tone deaf and “incredibly cringeworthy.”
Joe Biden lost his composure when a moderator from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) claimed some “younger people are concerned” about the candidate’s positions on policing.
A throng of white Hollywood celebrities, including actors Aaron Paul, Bryce Dallas Howard, Debra Messing, Kristen Bell, Julianne Moore, Justin Theroux, and Stanley Tucci, star in the “I Take Responsibility” PSA, in which the artists, famous for the work on stage and on screen, apologize for their own racism, “every unchecked moment,” and “Every not so funny joke.”
Hundreds of millions of dollars of corporate cash has flooded into the coffers of social justice organizations in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
Media giant Comcast will commit $100 million to a three-year plan aimed at promoting social justice causes, including grants to the NAACP, in the wake of the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, the company announced on Monday.
Donald Trump’s record on race relations is far better than George W. Bush’s was in 2000 — yet Bush has evidently joined the bandwagon of the “woke.”
Business review site Yelp announces that it will provide a special search feature on its platform so that users can limit their results to black-owned businesses.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been criticized by civil rights leaders and faced internal turmoil with employees over his decision on how to handle President Donald Trump’s posts on his platform. Civil rights groups issued a joint statement after meeting with Zuckerberg stating: “We are disappointed and stunned by Mark’s incomprehensible explanations for allowing the Trump posts to remain up.”
Trump’s rhetoric is combative and over-the-top. Yet his actions, as usual, not only obey the First Amendment, but also reinforce it. Biden would do the opposite.
A woman identified as Dianne Binns, past president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), blasted rioters who looted a Target store Thursday in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The NAACP responded to Joe Biden’s claim by noting that it had never endorsed him, and that it does not endorse political candidates in an official capacity.
Wednesday on “MSNBC Live,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson sounded off on the 2020 presidential race following former Vice President Joe Biden strengthening his lead against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the night before.
Amy Klobuchar, who once served as Hennepin County’s district attorney, has received support from the current county’s attorney after it was reported earlier this year that the Minnesota senator worked to put a teenager behind bars for life with little to no concrete evidence.
A Boston teacher’s union president has come under fire this week after encouraging Boston public school teachers to wear “Black Lives Matter” apparel to school. The Boston Police Union condemned the teacher demonstration, arguing that “Black Lives Matter” activists make police work “more dangerous than ever.”
Multiple racial justice groups have called on White House hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to suspend her presidential campaign after a story from the Associated Press highlighted her role in a case during her time as Hennepin County’s district attorney.
Freshman lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) participated in an NAACP forum Wednesday evening where she proudly declared that “the squad” — the nickname given to her, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — is not an “insurgent cohort,” but representative of the American people.
