The NAACP introduces an AIDS Manual for churches; which addresses the disease and its disproportionate effect on the black community. This month the NAACP released the 61-page activity manual at the group’s convention in Texas. Religious leaders who helped with the manual said black churches have been reluctant to talk about the disease. That’s in […]
Mitt Romney stood before leaders and activists at the NAACP convention in Houston, Texas, this morning and attempted to strike an inclusive tone by stating…
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The NAACP and the Fayette County Branch of the NAACP are conducting an investigation in to the facts of the June 8th arrest of of World Changers Church International Pastor Creflo Dollar. The arrest came after Dollar’s 15-year-old daughter told police her father physically assaulted her. Fayette County NAACP President John E. Jones stated: We simply want to make […]
On Saturday at a board meeting in Miami, Florida the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation’s oldest African American civil rights group, voted to support a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement, “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of […]
Following a spate of voter suppression laws that could prevent up to 5 million voters from heading to the voting booth for the upcoming presidential…
NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous was joined by radio host Tom Joyner, American Urban Radio Networks Program Operations President Jerry Lopes and others on…
NAACP President Todd Jealous blasted CNN for not having any African-American anchors in their newly announced prime time news line-up. “As CNN announced their new schedule, a glaring omission was present — no African Americans were hosts or anchors in their prime time lineup,” he said. “The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of […]
NEW YORK — New York City parents are infuriated with NAACP Brooklyn chapter president Karen Boykin-Towns and her husband, calling them hypocrites for sending their daughter to a New England boarding school, after publicly denouncing charter schools in the city area. Boykin-Town’s husband, Darryl Towns, is the state housing commissioner and former Brooklyn state assemblyman […]
FLORIDA-The NAACP has joined forces with Latino and human rights groups to oppose bills in the Florida senate that would require law enforcement agencies to racially profile. Politic365 reports: These bills “would require law enforcement officials in Florida to engage in racial profiling – an insidious practice all too familiar to racial and ethnic minorities […]
A recent study was done at YourBlackWorld.com in regards to the NAACP nominating hip-hop artists like Jay Z and Nicki Minaj for awards, when they use derogatory terms toward women and the “N-word” in their raps. The survey sparked from The survey posed this question to participants: “The NAACP Image Awards recently nominated artists like […]
The NAACP began its three-day National Religious Leaders Summit this past week with an emphasis on incarcerated women, encouraging the faith community to take a leadership role on matters of social justice. The summit, themed “The Faith Community, The Trumpet of Conscience, began Monday in Atlanta, Ga., with a brief detailing the social justice, education, […]
