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19 May 2015, 9:38 pm
"Right to free speech trumps trademark claim -- 4th Circuit": Reuters has a report that begins, "A Virginia pro-life group had a free speech right to publish an article criticizing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by satirizing its name, a U.S. appeals court said Tuesday, vacating a judgment that the civil rights organization's trademarks were infringed. [read post]
7 Dec 2005, 12:03 am
[JURIST] Bruce Gordon [NAACP profile], president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged [press release] that death row inmate and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams [advocacy website biography] be granted clemency, calling him a secret weapon for helping young African-American men stay out of gangs. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 5:20 am
The suit [complaint, PDF] was filed by two elderly voters in Georgia, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [advocacy website], and other civil rights [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 2:28 pm
The Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [tcomplaint] Wednesday against the state of Alabama, alleging that the at-large election format for state appellate judges and justices is racially discriminatory [AL.com report]. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 9:03 am
The decision prompted the challengers, 10 voters and several rights groups including the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [advocacy websites], to... [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 6:18 am
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [official website] challenged the practice as being a restriction upon the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 12:05 am
" Here is the call for papers: Over the last 100 years, the [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)] has greatly assisted African Americans and other oppressed groups in their struggles for civil rights, equal treatment, and social [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 5:43 am
The archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries from the association’s national, legal and branch offices throughout the United States are now fully searchable and accessible through the Library’s ownership of the database NAACP Papers from History Vault - (ProQuest). [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 12:00 am
I was in a nation of people of color who rejected that distinction,” Norwood says. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 2:06 pm
The New Orleans, Louisiana, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has denounced the recent bribery indictment of corrupt Louisiana Congressmen William Jefferson as the work of a Republican White House and Justice Department scheming to target black Democratic leaders. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 8:07 am
On Monday, January 18th, the Portland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) hosted a breakfast to honor Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 1:01 am
” In 1909, Terrell was among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 8:42 pm
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “In March, Flanagan issued an injunction temporarily blocking the law because the plaintiffs – the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera – were likely to succeed in their arguments. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 1:01 am
The Spingarn Medal is a gold medal created in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, who was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), its second president, and chairman of its board from 1913 until his death. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 6:34 am
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is asking the UN high commissioner on human rights to rule various American states in violation of international law because of the states’ insistence on various restrictions on the franchise, including ID requirements for voters, denial of the vote to convicted felons, and measures that “have reduced the ease of early voting, a convenience that is disproportionately… [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 12:01 am
On this day in history, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in New York City “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 5:00 am
A recent wsbtv.com news article reported that during an audit, it was discovered that $275,000 was stolen from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Atlanta Branch. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 3:47 am
Louis Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wanted to lead. [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 3:30 am
” In the words of Walter White, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1929–1955: Race discrimination threatens our national security. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 8:59 am
The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division Wednesday decided that a First Amendment lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over the state’s prohibition against data scraping may proceed. [read post]