AP | Former Vice President Kamala Harris is to receive the NAACP ‘s Chairman’s Award during the civil rights organization’s Image Awards ceremony this weekend. Harris,...
Bloomberg | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the biggest civil rights organization in the US, is entering the investment world with...
AP | At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar...
In an unprecedented move, NAACP partners with venture backed technology company Hello Alice to support the NAACP's proactive mission of improving the lives of African Americans...
NAACP has been dedicated to fighting this pandemic from the outset - Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has asked a federal judge to halt the implementation of a photo identification requirement for North...
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, 64, received the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Equal Justice Award Dinner Wednesday night in New York....
U.S. civil rights leader and former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Julian Bond, who emerged as one of the...
By Jon Queally On the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, proponents of the landmark legislation are saying the law not only deserves to be...
U.S. President Barack Obama is pushing for bipartisan action to change the criminal justice system in ways that go far beyond the limited executive powers he...
U.S. President Barack Obama will address the 106th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, July 14,...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the United States, will hold its 106th annual...
Staff members at a Colorado NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) office say they are waiting for more information before drawing any conclusions...
Preparations are being made for the NAACP’s upcoming 120 mile (193 km), 7 day march entitled “Journey for Justice: Ferguson to Jefferson City.” The march is in...
An emotional Eric Holder (r) standing with U.S. President Barack Obama (l) during the announcement of his (Holder’s) resignation. PHOTO/Associated Press The departure of U.S. Attorney...
African American voters The Obama administration plans to join lawsuits in Ohio and Wisconsin over Republican-backed changes to state voting laws that plaintiffs say violate the...
African American voters A federal judge will be asked on Monday to block key provisions of North Carolina’s overhauled voter law, including fewer early voting days...
Cornell William Brooks The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have announced that lawyer and activist Cornell William Brooks would become its new...
Leon Jenkins. PHOTO/File The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned, following scrutiny of his decision to give Los Angeles Clippers owner...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has dropped their plans to honor Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in light of alleged...
Just months after stepping down as head of the nation’s largest civil rights organization, former NAACP President Benjamin Jealous (pictured), is changing his career from an...
Myrlie Evers-Williams. PHOTO/Tyler Cleveland Civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams is stepping down from the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),...
(PRNewsire) – BLACK ENTERPRISE (BE) will present its highest recognition of women’s achievement when it presents the Legacy Awards at the 2014 Women of Power Summit...
Lorraine C. Miller, pictured, has been named Interim President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ms. Miller will be...
Benjamin Jealous (pictured), the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), has revealed that he plans to step down...
African American leaders at an NAACP Protest Rally for Trayvon Martin held early 2012. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – The not guilty verdict in the fatal shooting of...
(Bloomberg) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), resuming an investigation into the fatal shooting of an African American teenager in Florida, will travel to the...
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) released the following statements in response to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Section...
NAACP leaders from around the United States are honoring the memory of the group’s former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated...
Press Release Washington DC – The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) released the following statements in response to the NC House Vote...
The president of the North Carolina NAACP is calling for religious leaders to organize non-violent protests to bring attention to what he considers a Republican crusade...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios The head of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) has indicated that there are some members...
The 44th annual National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards will be held on February 1 this year. Re known Comedian-TV talk...
The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation’s...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says it is mobilizing volunteers to lobby at the state and local levels for its biggest...
University of Maryland law professor Sherrilyn Ifill (pictured), will assume the helm of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in January 2013, the organization announced November 19....
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Several leaders within the National Baptist Convention and the NAACP plan a rally in Atlanta to call attention to...
Houston pastor Timothy W. Sloan has felt for years that he needed to talk about HIV and AIDS with his congregation. But he worried the 3,000...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention, Thursday, July 12, 2012. PHOTO/Pat Sullivan/AP President Barack Obama has asked The National Association for the...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), vows to register 1 million new voters in time for the November elections to overturn what...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says its newest battle is really an old one. This year’s NAACP national convention, which kicks...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts “to...
African American voters. PHOTO/File The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President and CEO Ben Jealous was joined by radio host Tom Joyner,...
More and more Black Americans are realizing that the success of Black businesses relies on them. In a time of financial anguish for many, some African-Americans...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is joining with minority and labor groups for a series of protests around the country meant...
Troy Davis (pictured), the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence, filed an eleventh-hour plea Wednesday...
The answer is that the Urban League is utterly dependent on the generosity of corporate donors, and Bill Gates is potentially among the biggest...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The NAACP's president is urging South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that flies near her Statehouse office...
