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Through his first six months as president, Barack Obama has tended to shy away from the historical significance and potential influence of his role as the nation's first black president.
Saying that civil rights leaders from decades past paved the way for his election as the nation's first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama paid homage to the NAACP and advised members that their work remains unfinished.
Heralding the NAACP for a century of courage and progress, President Barack Obama will come before the nation's oldest civil rights organization Thursday with a message of shared responsibility: Government can help communities, but people are in charge of helping themselves.
President Barack Obama is telling the nation's oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must work together to improve communities.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the GOP and the NAACP have missed opportunities to engage with each other.
The NAACP may be 100 years old, but it's using the latest technology to fight racism.
For 23-year-old Demar Lamont Roberts, the NAACP Centennial Convention is like celebrating the election of Barack Obama all over again.
The NAACP has fought for a century to bring equal and civil rights to blacks, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson believes the organization's current battle is to help the troubled U.S. economy and struggling domestic auto industry.
In a March 13 story about an NAACP lawsuit accusing banks of mortgage discrimination, The Associated Press reported erroneously that HSBC has received federal bailout funds. HSBC says it has not received any bailout funds.
The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates.
Its first 100 years were about civil rights and achieving equality between blacks and whites.
Three weeks after announcing he would not seek another term as chairman of the NAACP's national board, veteran civil rights activist Julian Bond said Tuesday that he has changed his mind.
The NAACP says it will honor environmental activists Al Gore and Wangari Muta Maathai at its 40th Image Awards.
The NAACP will have lawyers targeting 750 precincts around the nation on Election Day to help address complaints about possible voter disenfranchisement, the organization's new president said Saturday.
The NAACP's national board of directors has approved a three-year contract for new president Ben Jealous, the youngest leader in the civil rights organization's history.
The Confederate flag that flutters 30 feet above one of this city's busiest streets still draws a mix of head shakes and shrugs from South Carolina residents.
New York Gov. David Paterson and the NAACP on Thursday condemned the New Yorker magazine's satirical cover depicting Democrat Barack Obama and his wife as flag-burning radicals.
John McCain told the NAACP and some skeptical black voters Wednesday that he will expand education opportunities, partly through vouchers for low-income children to attend private school.
John McCain is telling the NAACP he will expand education opportunities for children in failing schools.
The NAACP will step up its campaign against the flying of the Confederate battle flag on state grounds in South Carolina, a leader of the organization said.
The NAACP's Cincinnati chapter sagged to a low point a few years ago, its membership the smallest it had been in decades. Some outside the chapter even questioned its relevancy — this in a city recently torn by racially tinged rioting.
The NAACP chose 35-year-old activist and former news executive Ben Jealous as its president Saturday, making him the youngest leader in the 99-year history of the nation's largest civil rights organization.
The Detroit branch of the NAACP said Thursday it has selected the embattled former minister of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama as the keynote speaker at its 53rd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner.
An NAACP leader said Michael Vick should be allowed to return to the NFL, preferably the Atlanta Falcons, after serving his sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation.
Portland neo-Nazi indicted in mailing of noose to Ohio NAACP officer excerpt: "" A Portland-based organizer for a national neo-Nazi group was brought before a federal judge in shackles Thursday, accused of mailing a hangman's noose to the president of an Ohio chapter of the NAACP.
Black Leaders Ignore Black-on-Black CrimeExcerpt- There's a reason for their uncharacteristic silence. Derrion's murder does not fit the black liberation narrative.
Race Card - R.I.P. :: Larry Elder The scenario usually plays out this way. A white person says something about a nonwhite person -- a statement perceived as racially insensitive, purportedly reinforcing a stereotype, or otherwise considered racist.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Wants BMW to Stop Racist Ad MovesOnce again Jessie and the gang are fighting for some non worthy cause while our Black President is being eaten alive by White Racist.
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression.
Arizona Pastor Calls for Obamas DeathUh Oh, Looks like Satan has gotten a hold of one of the Caucasian members and has made him loose control of his mouth. He is now publicaly voicing what most Whites are thinking, praying and saying now.
Parade will go on despite controversy over Confederate flag - St. Petersburg TimesOrganizers will go ahead with the popular Veterans Day parade in Homestead despite the controversy over a group that marched for the first time with the Confederate battle flag last year.
GOP blasts Idaho candidate's 'Obama tags' comment - Yahoo! NewsThe Republicans are talking about buying licenses to hunt President Barack Obama.
ACLU, La Raza, unions ask Obama to scrap immigration pacts with local copsA coalition of Latino groups, liberal activists and labor unions have written President Barack Obama asking him to scrap agreements between the federal government and local police departments that allow them arrest illegal immigrants.
Well done, Viners. Your hard work and that of thousands of others have paid off.
ACTION ALERT: DC lobbyists use naked fraud to oppose Climate bill! Rapid response protest scheduled,This morning the below story broke: LOBBYISTS FORGED LETTERS TO CONGRESS ON CLIMATE BILL
Lobby Firm Sent Forged Climate Change Letter To CongressmanFreshman Democratic congressman Tom Perriello -- whose Virginia district leans Republican -- faced a tough decision last month over whether to support the climate change bill.
Arrested Harvard Prof Has 'Stupidly' Played the Race Card His Whole LifeIn 1990 I served the federal court here in South Florida as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the obscenity trial that determined Miami rap group 2 Live Crew's album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene and thus not protected by the First Amendment.
Obama's Pandering NAACP SpeechYet, there stood Obama in black voice, pandering to an organization that, as the president/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry Alford, told Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., was a "god-awful" road to go down.
Sen. Sessions unfit to judge Sotomayor Sessions called the NAACP and the ACLU both "un-American" and "Communist-inspired." He went even further in his insulting remarks by adding that these groups had "forced civil rights down the throats of people." He called a white civil rights lawyer "a disgrace to h …
At an Environment and Public Works hearing on Thursday, The president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce Harry C. Alford became very annoyed after remarks made by Senator Barbara Boxer were interpreted as condescending and racial.
NAACP Harnesses Cell Phone Power to Launch New High Tech "Rapid Report System" to Help Citizens Report Police Misconduct -- Part of Sweeping New Civil Rights Initiative on Crime and SafetyAn innovative national program to help fight crime in American cities and towns will be unveiled Monday, July 13th at the NAACP Centennial Convention in New York City.
Obama's Speech to the NAACP: Preachy or Pitch-Perfect?I wondered if some might have found his remarks, like Bill Cosby's some year's back, a bit patronizing.
NAACP unveils cell phone video & photo upload feature on website, for documentation of police / civil rights abuse, via web"An innovative national program to help fight crime in American cities and towns....
After 100 Years, Is the NAACP Still Relevant?On its centennial, the NAACP faces the dire question of relevance.
President Obama tells black Americans the time for excuses is over: take responsibility for yourselves, be good parentsPresident Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by "putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour," and telling black children that growing up poor is …
Senator Blocked Because of His "KKK" Comments Now Attacks SotomayorThe third-term Alabama senator, this week at least, is the face of a party without a clear leader. His role strikes some as hypocritical. But arguably, no one knows more intimately what a political minefield race has been for the GOP.
The NAACP supports the "Democracy Restoration Act" Voter Re-Enfranchisement for rehabilitated felony offendersBecause voting is such an integral part of being a productive member of American society, the NAACP has worked closely with other like-minded groups to develop legislation that would allow felons who are no longer incarcerated to reintegrate themselves into society and vote in fe …
Ku Klux Klan Sends Message To Predominantly Black Neighborhood (video)People who live in Greeneville's Meadowlark Subdivision say white supremacists are singling them out. Several homeowners in the mostly black neighborhood say earlier this month, in the middle of the night, the Ku Klux Klan dropped off hate mail in their front yards.
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