More than a week after two Ohio high school football players were found guilty of sexual assault, a member of the state’s NAACP executive committee criticized the actions of the 16-year-old victim. Royal Mayo, formerly the president of the Steubenville, Ohio NAACP chapter, defended Steubenville High School students Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond during an [...]
Ga. NAACP Accuses Gov. Deal of Racism For Suspending DeKalb School Board Members
March 1, 2013 | Posted by
The issue of race has been simmering just beneath the surface of the DeKalb school board controversy. On Thursday, Georgia’s NAACP, other civil rights activists and some African-American state legislators made it official. They accused Republican Gov. Nathan Deal of being part of an alleged conspiracy to get rid of black officeholders and deprive black [...]
Kerry Washington Wins Big at NAACP Image Awards
February 3, 2013 | Posted by
Actress Kerry Washington was the standout of Friday night’s 44th annual NAACP Image Awards, pulling in three trophies. She won outstanding actress in a drama series for her role in Shonda Rimes’ Scandel, and best supporting actress in a motion picture, playing Jaime Foxx’s love interest in Django Unchained. “This award does not belong to [...]
Black Pro-Life Groups to Protest at NAACP Image Awards Show
February 1, 2013 | Posted by
Friday night’s 44th annual NAACP Image Awards will bring together the nation’s prominent black artists in film, literature, music and television, but a group of African-American pro-life protestors have pledged they will also be in attendance. A coalition of organizations upset with the NAACP’s stance on abortion plans to protest the event in Los Angeles [...]
Sherrilyn Ifill, New Head of NAACP Fund, Ready For New Rights Battles
January 29, 2013 | Posted by
Sherrilyn Ifill insists that this is the time to play offense, not defense. Ifill, the new president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said that organizations working to protect and expand the rights of African-Americans must forcefully push a proactive agenda instead of only react to legal decisions that affect minority Americans. “The [...]
NAACP, Latino Group Demanding More Diversity in Obama’s Administration
January 24, 2013 | Posted by
Minority leaders are calling on President Barack Obama to introduce more diversity into his administration, as he revamps his Cabinet for his second term. The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a joint coalition of 30 Latino groups, has issued a letter requesting that the president name three Latinos to his Cabinet from a list of 19 [...]
NAACP Fights NYC Curbs on Sugary Drinks
January 24, 2013 | Posted by
Politics may make strange bedfellows, but money may make them stranger still. While data show that African-Americans, especially black children, are disproportionately obese, the soda industry has found an ally in one of the community’s leading organizations – the NAACP, whose New York chapter has filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit that [...]
NAACP and Other Liberal Groups Plan to Remake American Politics
January 10, 2013 | Posted by
It was the kind of meeting that conspiratorial conservative bloggers dream about. A month after President Barack Obama won re-election, top brass from three dozen of the most powerful groups in liberal politics met at the headquarters of the National Education Association, a few blocks north of the White House. Brought together by the Sierra [...]
Marian Anderson: A Little Known Barrier Breaker
January 7, 2013 | Posted by
On Jan. 7, 1955, Philadelphia-born singer Marian Anderson broke barriers when she became the first Black person to perform at the New York Metropolitan Opera as a regular company member. She played the role of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un Ballo in Maschera (The Masked Ball). Despite Anderson’s talents early on in her career, her ascent to success [...]
‘Black America’s Law Firm’ Under New Leadership
December 18, 2012 | Posted by
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has been called the law firm for black America. Once run by Thurgood Marshall, the group played a major role in desegregating public schools and fighting restrictions at the ballot box. Now, the Legal Defense Fund is preparing for a new leader — just as the Supreme Court considers cases [...]
