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July 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling the nation's oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must…
July 16, 2009
Democratic presidential candidate Obama greeting supporters at the 2008 NAACP convention in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File) Over the last
July 14, 2009
At 36 years-old Benjamin Todd Jealous is the youngest person to ever lead the NAACP. As he presented his opening…
July 13, 2009
A prominent civil rights group has launched a program that lets people use their cell phones to report incidents of…
June 24, 2009
In Georgia, a man named Troy Davis sits on Death Row despite unassailable evidence pointing to his innocence. It is
June 11, 2009
It’s a symbol of history — but also of hate. Some 150 years after the Civil War, the confederate flag
June 10, 2009
JESSE WASHINGTON AP National Writer News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights
June 10, 2009
TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Several current and former Eli Lilly and Co. employees have joined a