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The NAACP’s Portland, Oregon, chapter is claiming the city’s policy requiring signage on certain buildings to warn about potential earthquake damage is ongoing housing discrimination aimed at black Americans.

In the face of a continuing boycott, San Francisco Giants Owner Robert Johnson is asking for a refund of his donation to newly elected Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.

NEW YORK — Billionaire George Soros is a financial contributor to The Collective, a little-known but increasingly influential political organization that says it is seeking to build a “black political power” movement in the U.S., Federal Election Commission records show.

Pop singer John Legend has joined the ranks of those opposing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A poll conducted by the NAACP shows that black support for President Trump sits at 21 percent, which doubles his April standing.

The NAACP released its 2018 midterm election survey on Tuesday, revealing a series of questions about President Donald Trump’s alleged racism.

Ben Jealous, the Democrat candidate for governor of Maryland, lost his cool when asked if he would describe himself as a socialist. 

Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who became infamous for posing as a black woman for a decade, was arrested and charged with welfare fraud and other offenses on Monday.

Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle campaigned for former NAACP president Ben Jealous on Friday, a rare political gesture for the longtime actor. “So you know, I’m out of my element,” Chappelle said at an event at Olde Towne Inn in Largo, Maryland,

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delivered another lower court ruling Tuesday demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continue the Obama administration’s amnesty for illegal aliens who entered the United States as children.

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon teamed up with MTV and the NAACP to send busloads of protesters to take part in Saturday’s student march for gun control.

Netflix released a clip from its upcoming documentary about Rachel Dolezal – who was born white but spent years posing as a black civil rights leader — and social media exploded with rage and accusations of ‘white privilege.’

The replacement last month of interim San Francisco Mayor London Breed, an African-American woman, with Supervisor Mike Farrell, a white male venture capitalist, has raised questions about whether the Bay Area has a problem supporting black candidates.

The City of San Francisco, home of the social justice movement and the tech industry, is in an uproar over the removal of black interim Mayor London Breed and her replacement by white male venture capitalist Mark Farrell.

ATLANTA (AP) — The NAACP wants to see white towels amid the crimson, white, red and black worn by fans to send a message to President Donald Trump during the national college football championship in Atlanta.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson stated President Trump’s planned attendance at the opening of a civil rights museum in Mississippi is an “affront” to those the museum is designed to honor in part because the

The NAACP is urging President Donald Trump’s proposed visit to the opening of a civil rights museum in Mississippi on Saturday, saying his appearance at the ceremony would be ‘an affront to the veterans of the civil rights movement.’

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rev. William Barber, pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC and NAACP board member and chair of its legislative political action committee, railed against those supporting former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore under the banner

The California chapter of the NAACP is advising Congress to abolish the national anthem, calling the song a “racist” relic of the past.

The California chapter of the NAACP is trying to persuade state lawmakers to support its campaign to remove “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the U.S. national anthem.

(New York) Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for December’s Senate special election in Alabama, took a leading role in an effort by a far-left legal group massively funded by billionaire George Soros to immediately grant full voting rights nationwide to felons, including those convicted of murder, raped other violent crimes.

The comments by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that his players better stand for the national anthem or risk being benched are still reverberating. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is charging that the NFL owner would be violating his players’ civil rights by forcing them to stand.

NAACP interim President Derrick Johnson said Tuesday that he wants to make sure minority neighborhoods get equal funding for Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts after the storm caused major destruction along the Gulf Coast.

The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, will no longer screen Gone With the Wind after the theater’s board said it had received “numerous comments” from viewers who called the 1939 film “insensitive” and “racist.”

The six-year saga surrounding Texas’ voter ID law added a new chapter Wednesday evening when a federal judge again ruled the law discriminatory against minorities.

Actress and activist Susan Sarandon joined alongside the hundreds of Colin Kaepernick supporters participating in the “United We Stand” march outside of the NFL’s headquarters in New York City Wednesday.

As militant activists warm to criticizing the NFL because national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick is still unemployed, the NAACP rallied in support of the player today at the league’s New York headquarters. Among others, joining the NAACP was Islamist jihadi apologist Linda Sarsour.

As national anthem protester and perhaps now ex-NFL player, Colin Kaepernick, continues to sit on the sidelines without a team for 2017, some liberal activists are trying to organize efforts to boycott the league over his unemployment.

Esther Lee, president of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, NAACP chapter, railed against the “senseless” left-wing campaign to remove historic memorials and Confederate statues following the neo-Nazi and white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” NAACP Interim President and CEO Derrick Johnson stated that President Trump not specifically condemning hate groups immediately after Charlottesville is akin to Woodrow Wilson showing “Birth of a Nation” in the White House. Johnson

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Janai Nelson, the Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund stated that the Department of Justice’s plan to probe affirmative action in college admissions is part of a modern attack on civil

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who serves as vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, talked about efforts by groups like the ACLU and NAACP to prevent his commission from doing its work on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rev. Dr. William Barber,  a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, condemned the Republican Party’s efforts to

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rev. Dr. William Barber, a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, spoke out against those that prayed

Greeny celebrities and leftist non-profits launched into widespread and often difficult to understand condemnations of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement Wednesday.

The NAACP, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Florida Education Association and other leftist groups are stirring protest against the president of Bethune-Cookman University for his invitation to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to be the school’s commencement speaker Wednesday.