The NAACP seeks to remove the Confederate names, mascots, and vestiges and prevent any future school naming involving Confederate leaders or references to the Confederacy. In his ruling ...

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 ...

Ellison, the president of the Fort Lauderdale-Broward NAACP, said she wants to make sure that John Giga stays away from law enforcement. “There is no place for him in this community, and any ...

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.

Dangerously cold conditions have forced a swearing-in ceremony for executive officers of the Macomb County branch of the NAACP to be held remotely Wednesday evening. The ceremony was scheduled for ...

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 ...

On Jan. 16, the NAACP joined with civil rights and environmental justice law firm Singleton Schreiber, announcing yet another lawsuit filed against SCE and Edison International (EI) on behalf of ...

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 ...

In the story, J.W. Cleary, president of the Paducah-McCracken County NAACP, shared his opinion, believing that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not agree with Trump's order. "He would not have ...

But doing so was sure to generate whining. And the fish caught in Landry’s MAGA net included these throwbacks… Baton Rouge NAACP President Jarret Luter said the flag is partisan and does not ...

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 ...

On Sunday, the NAACP Virginia State Conference commended Biden for commuting the sentences of Ferrone Claiborne and Terrence Jerome Richardson. Virginia NAACP President Rev. Cozy Bailey released ...