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March 7, 2010
Do the nominations of Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Daniels and Freeman herald a real shift in the Academy Awards' rocky reputation with…
February 27, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The heart-wrenching tale of an illiterate and abused teen who finds hope in a Harlem classroom…
February 26, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mary J. Blige, Morgan Freeman, and Jamie Foxx are among the stars set to celebrate diversity…
February 26, 2010
OPINION - So what's on Jones' mind these days? Everything from the meaning of the NAACP Image award to the…
February 26, 2010
OPINION - While I question his method behind his movie characters, at least Perry puts his money where his mouth…
February 20, 2010
Roslyn M. Brock's election as chairman of the NAACP is being hailed by the civil rights organization as a "generational…
February 10, 2010
In a meeting that many in the African-American community considered a long time coming, President Obama met with black leaders…
February 2, 2010
From The LA Times: Of the big events of the early civil rights movement, the sit-ins have always been the…
January 19, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Scholar and activist Cornel West invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday...
January 6, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The heart-wrenching story of an illiterate and abused Harlem teen who finds hope in a classroom…
January 5, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books…
December 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Georgetown University students are slamming a humor magazine for an online satirical piece they say is racist…
December 14, 2009
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The NAACP's Connecticut branch wants a federal review of the case in which an all-white jury…
December 3, 2009
OPINION - The absence of jobs may be made worse by Obama's reluctance to take a more aggressive, personalized approach…
December 2, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) --The NAACP has filed a federal complaint against an eastern North Carolina public school system. The organization…
November 25, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together…
November 24, 2009
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…
November 18, 2009
OPINION - The Heather Ellis case snaps into focus broad, systemic and longstanding problems with discriminatory policing and prosecutions across…
November 17, 2009
With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call…
November 16, 2009
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store, the schoolteacher faces a trial that…