Marshall Tuck’s racist dog whistle (tags)
Marshall Tuck's campaign reproached by the NAACP for its racism and anti-blackness.
McDonald's, the NAACP And Allegations Of Racism (tags)
In interviewing the director of The Founder, a movie about the founder of the McDonald's fast food chain, Ray Kroc, the question of his relationship to blacks came up.
FREE SPEECH: a circus of unintended consequences (tags)
A story about a racial confrontation in a small town.
NAACP Condemns Tea Party Movement Racism (tags)
Better late the never? The country's largest civil rights organization in the US, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has passed a resolution that condemns racism within the tea party movement today, July 13. NAACP Delegates approved the resolution Tuesday during the annual convention of in Kansas City. It came to the heels of the Federal government filing of the case against DB 1070 or the racist Arizona Law against immigrants that is scheduled to take effect this July 27.
Statement on Johannes Mehserle Verdict (tags)
Statement on the verdict for Johannes Mehserle, who shot Oscar Grant in the back. Mehserle was the first law enforcement officer in the state of California to be charged with murder in the line of duty. On Friday, July 9, 2010, Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
NAACP Says Mumia Abu-Jamal's Trial was Racist (tags)
“The blacks from the low income areas are less likely to convict. There's a resentment for law enforcement and a resentment for authority....you don't want those people on your jury, let's face it.”
Conservatives, liberals and blacks (tags)
‘We won’t let Bush steal it again!’ (tags)
Florida voters sound alarm on voter purges
AFRICAN AMERICANS RALLY AGAINST THE WAR! (tags)
Los Angeles Black Community Rally for Peace & Justice WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER!
NAACP Office of Communications (tags)
It is a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Women In The NAACP (WIN), the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. to reduce infant mortality, particularly the risk of crib death, also known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), among African American infants.
Excerpts from the 2002 NAACP Convention Address, Houston, Tex., July 7, 2002. This year’s convention theme – Freedom Under Fire – is appropriate in many ways. So, too, is the city and state in which we gather. …
NAACP OPPOSES GAIL NORTON'S NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY OF INTERIOR (tags)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will work with environmentalists to oppose the nomination of Gail Norton to be Secretary of the Interior ... ...Senators of both parties should know their votes would be remembered. They cannot celebrate Martin Luther King's dream one day and destroy it the next."
COUP WATCH: Media gang up on Jackson and ignore the plight of black voters (tags)
Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson takes a withering look at how the corporate media has ignored the widespread violations of minority voting rights & attacked Jesse Jackson for daring to speak up.
COUP WATCH: NAACP Hearings On Violations of Black & Hispanic Voting Rights (tags)
While the corporate media retained a narrow focus on a very few issues, mostly in Palm Bqeach County, CSPAN broadcast NAACP hearings dealing with widespread violations of minority voting rights. Here’s what one political progressive who watched had to say about what she saw.