The NAACP Image Awards put on a fun and exciting show for its inaugural airing on TVOne. There were winners we expected and some surprises we didn’t see coming. Besides getting to see who wore what, hostAnthony Anderson did a great job of being humorous while making sure the show ran smoothly. The comedian of the […]
Check out the best and worst dressed from the NAACP Image Awards
A settlement between the big three American tobacco companies and the federal government requires executives to produce an ad campaign that reveals the harmful health…
Win $2,000 for your school or organization during the 2014 NAACP Civil Rights Celebration!  This year’s Civil Rights Icon is Sara J. Harper Creatively present her life story and how she contributed to the civil rights movement. Enrollment forms must be submitted to the Columbus NAACP by February 21st 2014 Official enrollment forms can be […]
The “45TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS” NOMINEES ANNOUNCED Two-Hour Special Airs Live on Saturday, February 22 on TV One at 9:00 p.m. ET (PT tape-delayed)  One-Hour…
This is Troy Davis. He was charged for the murder or police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989 and executed in 2011. Davis maintained his innocence…
Via Elev8 The nation’s oldest African American civil rights group, the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, endorsed a resolution this past weekend supporting same-sex marriage in America. The chair woman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP, Roslyn M. Brock stated “we have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into […]
VIA BCNN1.COM Today, a group of seven education and civil rights groups released a six-point plan for equitable and sustainable national education reform in this country. And, big surprise, the report is basically a 17-page repudiation of the Obama administration’s education reform platform. Groups including the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Urban […]
The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Roslyn M. Brock, 44, was chosen to succeed Julian Bond. She had been vice chairman since 2001 and a member of the NAACP for 25 years. Brock works for Bon Secours Health Systems in Maryland as vice president […]
NEW YORK, NY – The NAACP named Roslyn Brock as Chair of the Board of Directors at its Annual Board Meeting on February 20 at the New York Hilton.
On February 12, 1900, 500 school children gathered at a segregated Stanton School, the principal at the time-James Weldon Johnson wrote a poem to welcome the guest speaker Booker T. Washington.
VIA:Â NAACP.Org The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald […]
