The Rock Island County NAACP is sending love and sincere sympathy to the community and family of Jakarta Jackson. Jackson, 21, of East Moline, was fatally shot by Rock Island Police Officer Brett ...

Marcus Garvey was granted a posthumous pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last full day in office, January 19. The ...

LIMA — The Lima NAACP is seeking sponsors for its student scholarship fund. The civil rights organization set a goal to raise $60,000 in contributions this year to provide scholarships to ...

One example was a June 1956 speech at a NAACP convention, where he said (emphasis ours): My friends, if we would put the proper leaders in the backfield to call the signals and run the ball ...

Ryan Coleman serves as president of the Baltimore County chapter of the NAACP. This week, he discusses the recent cost increase experienced by Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers.

Rev. Kenneth Dukes is the president of the Shelby County NAACP. Before the program started, he explained the decision to cancel the march. “I had to make a call, and I did it based off of the ...

The local chapter of the NAACP’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations began with a frigid memorial and ended with a warmly received sermon. Monday’s annual memorial service for civil rights ...

From his written works to influential speeches, here are excerpts of Dr. King's everlasting wisdom Lydia Price is a former platforms editor at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2022. Evening Standard ...

As Tamu Holmes reminded the audience at Monday’s Fredericksburg NAACP Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast, while her organization might be strictly non-partisan, “we are political as hell.” “Today ...

On August 28, 1963, as a 14-year-old kid, I remember watching the TV broadcast of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ushering in the largest civil rights gathering of our time – the March on ...

HYANNIS—A smile popped across NAACP Cape Cod President Lynne Rhodes' face as she stood in the Zion Union Heritage Museum basement on Jan. 8 holding a clay sculpture titled “Nuclear Silence.” ...

The Alabama State Conference of the NAACP believes an Alabama law that went into effect in October that eliminates diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses and restricts what ...