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The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. has filed suit on behalf of the National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the lawfulness and validity of Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, issued on September 22, 2020. [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]
16 Aug 2016, 5:45 am by Derek Black
At its recent national convention, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter schools. [read post]
21 May 2012, 2:17 pm by Ziv Steinberg
  The NAACP’s freedom to marry resolution also signals the ultimate failure of an ugly and divisive strategy from the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM). [read post]
12 Apr 2009, 7:35 pm
Presented in conjunction with the National Constitution Center’s America I AM: The African American Imprint exhibition, the Center commemorates the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Centennial. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
In the second lecture, Kalven distinguished between direct and indirect threats to the associational freedom of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [read post]
30 Nov 2004, 4:01 pm
[JURIST] NAACP President Kweisi Mfume announced Tuesday that he is resigning as the head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group after serving in that position since 1996. [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]
21 May 2015, 5:23 am by Bloomberg
The ruling came in a case brought against the NAACP by the operators of a Virginia-based nonprofit that opposed abortion in the black community. [read post]
21 May 2015, 1:33 pm by Steve Lash
An anti-abortion group did not infringe upon the NAACP’s trademark by referring to the venerable Baltimore-based black civil rights group as the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People” in an online article, a federal appeals court has ruled. [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]
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]
23 May 2019, 1:30 pm by Mary Ann Neary
The collection, summarized here by ProQuest, is organized into the following groups:  NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff FilesNAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department FilesNAACP Papers: Special SubjectsNAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns—Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed ForcesNAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Legal Department… [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 1:12 am
He urged black males serving in the Army to refuse to participate in the war in Afghanistan, bringing a rebuke from then-NAACP national president Kweisi Mfume.Gatewood has resurfaced to denounce the North Carolina Bar Association for joining "the lynching mobs in Durham who have verbally lynched and sought to politically assassinate DA Mike Nifong" as part of a "conspiracy to disrupt justice in this Durham case should be obvious. [read post]
17 Oct 2006, 7:00 am
NAACP President Bruce Gordon [official profile] stated Monday that the organization "will take [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 9:17 am by Douglas A. Berman
Here are the details: Jeffery Blanck, the president of the Reno-Sparks chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,... [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
In the second lecture, Kalven distinguished between direct and indirect threats to the associational freedom of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 5:59 am by Glenn Reynolds
UPDATE: Tom Maguire emails that it may have been the state NAACP President, not national NAACP President Ben Jealous. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 12:47 pm by Lori Bauman
  At issue was whether the national office of the NAACP was liable for legal malpractice, breach of contract, and negligence, arising from the alleged acts and omissions of a lawyer who also happened to work as a volunteer officer at the Seattle-King County Branch of the NAACP. [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 6:10 am by abe@abolition.org
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has a presence in the "Ideas Exchange" area of the convention floor. [read post]