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3 Aug 2017, 4:47 am by SHG
” In an op-ed, NAACP Legal Defense Fund president and director-counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, argues against the DoJ shift. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 4:47 am by SHG
” In an op-ed, NAACP Legal Defense Fund president and director-counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, argues against the DoJ shift. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 11:00 am
He has characterized the NAACP as forcing civil rights down the throats of white people. [read post]
22 Jul 2017, 5:00 am by Daily Record Staff
Just when Baltimore was primed to get some positive national media attention by hosting the NAACP Convention, its police department took the city back a few steps when body camera footage released this week appeared to show one of its officers planting evidence during an investigation. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1930, both Frankfurter and Charles Houston recruited Margold to serve as Special Counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Margold was hired to coordinate the NAACP’s strategic litigation plan “to give the Southern Negro his constitutional rights, [and] his political and civil equality. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 1:25 pm by Adam Bednar
The NAACP national convention is set to formally kick off in Baltimore on Saturday bringing thousands of visitors to the city after the organization spent years trying to lure the event. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 11:30 am
The court’s landmark decision in NAACP v Claiborne Hardware Co. affirmed the constitutional right of NAACP activists to hold a mass economic boycott of white-owned businesses in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to protest the community’s persistent racial inequality and segregation. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 5:58 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has declined an invitation to speak at the NAACP’s annual convention next week in Baltimore, leading the nation’s oldest civil rights organization to question the president’s commitment to his African American constituents. [read post]
14 Jul 2017, 3:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Yesterday, a follow-up report said Denning ruled that five protestors, including State NAACP President Rev. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 9:00 am by Neil Schoenherr
“Several school districts around the nation have adopted policies that prevent students from wearing their hair in braids, twists, dreadlocks and Afros, and even Afro puffs,” said Kimberly Norwood, the Henry H. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 3:25 am by Robin Shea
Signatories to the letter include the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Employment Law Project, the NAACP, Lambda Legal, and a whole lot of unions. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Arthur Spingarn In 1911 he was appointed vice president and chairman of the national legal committee of the NAACP, a position he held until 1940. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 12:51 pm by Jim Martin
Megan Ming Francis, of the University of Washington, discussed how the NAACP chose to address issues concerning African-American communities through lobbying. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 4:00 am by Jamie LaPlante
The US Chamber of Commerce and the NAACP (and 73 other civil rights groups) separately wrote Congress in opposition to the proposal, which presently is the subject of a Congressional hearing. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 7:09 am by Joy Waltemath
Seventy-three national civil rights organizations, including the ACLU, the NAACP, and the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity, have signed onto a letter recently sent to Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney calling on the Trump Administration to abandon its proposal to merge the OFCCP into the EEOC. [read post]
31 May 2017, 7:29 am by Joy Waltemath
Cox, Director of Policy, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., underscored the importance of class claims. [read post]