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