State-level voting restrictions are an attempt to suppress the minority vote and prevent them from exercising political influence, according to a report released by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Monday. “Jim Crow ...
The NAACP has been collecting information about early voting advocacy by black churches in Florida, hoping to convince the Justice Department to strike down a slew of new state voting laws it claims are intended ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 25th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) last night in New York City. More than 700 guests were in attendance. The event raised nearly $2.5 ...
Yesterday was the official dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial here in Washington. Some of you may have snuck away from this conference to be there. I was there. It was inspiring because the ...
Richard Thompson Ford (“Moving Beyond Civil Rights,” Op-Ed, Oct. 28) asserts that “civil rights have barely made a dent in today’s most severe and persistent social injustices” and suggests that part of the problem is ...
LaShonn Tomlinson always had dreams of becoming a Chicago firefighter, but while working at Amtrak’s Union Station storage yard, those dreams often passed him by. “For years, I would see the new candidates running down ...
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in the racially charged case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, bringing an end to nearly 30 years of litigation over the fairness of the ...
