The Florida chapter of the NAACP is calling on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to decline an invitation to give the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), a private historically black university in Daytona Beach.
Rachel Dolezal – who was born white but spent years posing as a black civil rights leader – is back in the spotlight with a brand new memoir about her life as a “trans-racial” women.
During the Saturday MSNBC “AM Joy” broadcast, North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber claimed that before the alleged Russian hack took place, there was a “racist voter suppression hack of our political system.” “[W]e’ve had 22 states that represent nearly
Rachel Dolezal — the white woman, who spent years posing as a black civil rights leader — has reportedly changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, a West African moniker that mean “gift of God.”
Two years after being exposed as a white woman posing as a black civil rights champion, former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal is jobless, welfare dependent, and a month away from being homeless.
A member of the 1980-1981 Oakland Raiders Super Bowl winning team told Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it is time for African-Americans to reclaim their traditional conservatism. “Today’s generation has been trained to think differently from my generation. We would stand for the flag in a heartbeat—because we realized the opportunities we had,” said Burgess Owens on Thursday.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks described President Trump’s views on race as “somewhere between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal.” Brooks said, “So, the president managed, in the span of two paragraphs, to be condescending
A local leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) defended paintings displayed in Silicon Valley’s East Side Union High School District administrative offices for Black History Month that mocked police, and which were removed after complaints from parents.
The organized left’s kitchen sink tactic seen throughout the week against Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination for the next U.S. Attorney General included a bold effort tell the Senate Judiciary Committee directly that the nominee’s record of prosecuting federal voter fraud defendants served as an example of voter intimidation.
At least a half-dozen NAACP members, including the organization’s national president Cornell William Brooks, were arrested Tuesday night during a sit-in demonstration in protest of Republican senator Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee.
The state of Georgia is reportedly launching an investigation into student voter registrations handled by the local chapter of the NAACP at Glynn County area high schools.
The NAACP is suing in federal court to stop several county boards of election in North Carolina from removing people from voter rolls through challenges filed by individuals.
After the Mississippi NAACP made accusations that a black high school student had a noose thrown around his neck by white students, others are now speaking out refuting the broad claims of racism.
MILO engaged in a back-and-forth with a NAACP member on feminism and the state of America’s black community.
A University of Virginia professor has taken a leave of absence from the school after his comments comparing Black Lives Matter to the Klu Klux Klan came under fire.
Socially conscious ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has faced calls for a boycott after the company announced its support for the Black Lives Matter protest movement this week.
The aftermath of the police-involved shooting of a black suspect shot by a black police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina continues to reverberate and now the NAACP has jumped into the fray to insist that African Americans who become police officers are no longer black.
NEW YORK – As riots continue to plague Charlotte, North Carolina after a police shooting there, Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, has taken center stage in helping to shape the public narrative by commenting
Cornell William Brooks, the president of the NAACP, compared Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand during the national anthem at NFL games in 2016 to Rosa Parks’ decision not to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
Starting September 16, the Towson Town Center in Maryland will require a curfew for anyone 17 years old and younger, a measure the NAACP and other organizations call discriminatory.
HOUSTON, Texas – A group marching under the banner of “White Lives Matter” took to the streets in front of the local NAACP headquarters in the city’s Third Ward claiming to stand for equal rights for all races. Their goal was to call out the NAACP for its inaction against groups that have called for the death of whites and white police officers. Their message, however, was diluted by symbols of racial bigotry.
A man attempting to raise awareness for conservation efforts for the white and blue marlin designed T-shirts with the slogans “White Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” — both with a drawing of an upside-down fish on the front. But complaints soon rolled in after the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called to express their outrage.
An agreement between the State of Texas and groups that attempted to strike down the state’s photo voter identification law came to an agreement Wednesday that will keep the election integrity policy largely in place for the November elections and thereafter.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” former NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous, who supported Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the Democratic primary, and has yet to endorse presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, said that its “not clear”
Shortly after an appeals court ruled Texas’ voter identification law to have discriminatory effects requiring fixes before the November election, a federal judge released guidelines for a remedy on Thursday.
Texas’ photo voter identification law was ruled discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act Wednesday by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Klu Klux Klan (KKK) is officially recruiting members in San Francisco, citing a rise in interest following a series of police shootings, protests, and cop-killings that have garnered national attention.
A decision from a federal appeals court — to likely be made this week — is expected to determine whether the Texas photo voter identification requirement will be enforced for the 2016 Election.
Ben & Jerry’s announced Tuesday that proceeds from its newest flavor of ice cream, “Empower Mint,” will help benefit the North Carolina NAACP’s campaign to repeal the state’s voter ID law.
NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks agreed with comparisons between North Carolina’s “bathroom law” and Jim Crow laws and the school segregation laws struck down in Brown v. Board of Education on Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room.” Brooks
North Carolina NAACP President William Barber was removed from a flight in Washington D.C. Friday night after he was deemed a “disruptive passenger” by an American Airlines pilot.
The organizers behind a coalition of largely leftwing groups that engaged in mass civil disobedience on Monday pledged more arrests and disruptions in Washington, DC today and throughout the week.
A narrow plurality of African Americans said they believe new groups like Black Lives Matter (BLM) represent them more than older groups, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), says a new study from Brilliant Corners, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Monday announced it has joined a coalition of leftwing groups planning a second wave of protests and mass civil disobedience scheduled to disrupt Washington, DC later this month. Many of the participating groups are backed by billionaire George Soros.
Both Democratic candidates seeking the presidential nomination were desperately fighting for the black vote on Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming South Carolina primary. Bernie Sanders is attempting to continue the momentum from his massive victory in New Hampshire, while Hillary Clinton is hoping that the South Carolina primary on February 27th becomes a firewall that helps shut down Bernie Sanders.
Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn McCarrel shot himself Monday on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Bernie Sanders has a breakfast appointment Wednesday morning with MSNBC host and longtime Africa-American power-broker Al Sharpton. The two will reportedly meet Wednesday at the Harlem-based restaurant Sylvia’s, the same haunt that Sharpton chose when he sat down with then-Sen. Barack
Fox News contributor and actress Stacey Dash has responded to comedian Anthony Anderson, who described her as “Ann Coulter dipped in butterscotch” during Friday night’s 47th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles.
Host Anthony Anderson used a portion of his monologue at Friday’s 47th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles to address the Academy Awards race controversy, telling a room of mostly black attendees, “this is what diversity is supposed to look like.”
In an effort to defy a law requiring voters to present a photo ID in North Carolina, Irving Joyner, North Carolina NAACP Legal Redress Chair, held a press conference Tuesday and said, “We are going out and we are mobilizing people and telling them wherever they are to go to the polls whether you have a picture voter ID or not and demand their right to vote.”
