NAACP - Page 4

Rev. Al Sharpton said Democrats should not meet with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle campaigned for former NAACP president Ben Jealous on Friday, a rare political gesture for the longtime actor. “So you know, I’m out of my element,” Chappelle said at an event at Olde Towne Inn in Largo, Maryland,

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delivered another lower court ruling Tuesday demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continue the Obama administration’s amnesty for illegal aliens who entered the United States as children.

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon teamed up with MTV and the NAACP to send busloads of protesters to take part in Saturday’s student march for gun control.

The replacement last month of interim San Francisco Mayor London Breed, an African-American woman, with Supervisor Mike Farrell, a white male venture capitalist, has raised questions about whether the Bay Area has a problem supporting black candidates.

The City of San Francisco, home of the social justice movement and the tech industry, is in an uproar over the removal of black interim Mayor London Breed and her replacement by white male venture capitalist Mark Farrell.

ATLANTA (AP) — The NAACP wants to see white towels amid the crimson, white, red and black worn by fans to send a message to President Donald Trump during the national college football championship in Atlanta.

The NAACP is urging President Donald Trump’s proposed visit to the opening of a civil rights museum in Mississippi on Saturday, saying his appearance at the ceremony would be ‘an affront to the veterans of the civil rights movement.’

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rev. William Barber, pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC and NAACP board member and chair of its legislative political action committee, railed against those supporting former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore under the banner

The California chapter of the NAACP is advising Congress to abolish the national anthem, calling the song a “racist” relic of the past.

The California chapter of the NAACP is trying to persuade state lawmakers to support its campaign to remove “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the U.S. national anthem.

(New York) Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for December’s Senate special election in Alabama, took a leading role in an effort by a far-left legal group massively funded by billionaire George Soros to immediately grant full voting rights nationwide to felons, including those convicted of murder, raped other violent crimes.

The comments by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that his players better stand for the national anthem or risk being benched are still reverberating. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is charging that the NFL owner would be violating his players’ civil rights by forcing them to stand.

NAACP interim President Derrick Johnson said Tuesday that he wants to make sure minority neighborhoods get equal funding for Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts after the storm caused major destruction along the Gulf Coast.

The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, will no longer screen Gone With the Wind after the theater’s board said it had received “numerous comments” from viewers who called the 1939 film “insensitive” and “racist.”

The six-year saga surrounding Texas’ voter ID law added a new chapter Wednesday evening when a federal judge again ruled the law discriminatory against minorities.

Actress and activist Susan Sarandon joined alongside the hundreds of Colin Kaepernick supporters participating in the “United We Stand” march outside of the NFL’s headquarters in New York City Wednesday.

As militant activists warm to criticizing the NFL because national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick is still unemployed, the NAACP rallied in support of the player today at the league’s New York headquarters. Among others, joining the NAACP was Islamist jihadi apologist Linda Sarsour.

As national anthem protester and perhaps now ex-NFL player, Colin Kaepernick, continues to sit on the sidelines without a team for 2017, some liberal activists are trying to organize efforts to boycott the league over his unemployment.

Esther Lee, president of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, NAACP chapter, railed against the “senseless” left-wing campaign to remove historic memorials and Confederate statues following the neo-Nazi and white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” NAACP Interim President and CEO Derrick Johnson stated that President Trump not specifically condemning hate groups immediately after Charlottesville is akin to Woodrow Wilson showing “Birth of a Nation” in the White House. Johnson

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Janai Nelson, the Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund stated that the Department of Justice’s plan to probe affirmative action in college admissions is part of a modern attack on civil

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who serves as vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, talked about efforts by groups like the ACLU and NAACP to prevent his commission from doing its work on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rev. Dr. William Barber,  a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, condemned the Republican Party’s efforts to

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rev. Dr. William Barber, a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, spoke out against those that prayed

Greeny celebrities and leftist non-profits launched into widespread and often difficult to understand condemnations of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement Wednesday.

The NAACP, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Florida Education Association and other leftist groups are stirring protest against the president of Bethune-Cookman University for his invitation to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to be the school’s commencement speaker Wednesday.

The Florida chapter of the NAACP is calling on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to decline an invitation to give the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), a private historically black university in Daytona Beach.

Rachel Dolezal – who was born white but spent years posing as a black civil rights leader – is back in the spotlight with a brand new memoir about her life as a “trans-racial” women.

During the Saturday MSNBC “AM Joy” broadcast, North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber claimed that before the alleged Russian hack took place, there was a “racist voter suppression hack of our political system.” “[W]e’ve had 22 states that represent nearly

Rachel Dolezal — the white woman, who spent years posing as a black civil rights leader — has reportedly changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, a West African moniker that mean “gift of God.”

Two years after being exposed as a white woman posing as a black civil rights champion, former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal is jobless, welfare dependent, and a month away from being homeless.

A member of the 1980-1981 Oakland Raiders Super Bowl winning team told Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it is time for African-Americans to reclaim their traditional conservatism. “Today’s generation has been trained to think differently from my generation. We would stand for the flag in a heartbeat—because we realized the opportunities we had,” said Burgess Owens on Thursday.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks described President Trump’s views on race as “somewhere between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal.” Brooks said, “So, the president managed, in the span of two paragraphs, to be condescending

A local leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) defended paintings displayed in Silicon Valley’s East Side Union High School District administrative offices for Black History Month that mocked police, and which were removed after complaints from parents.

The organized left’s kitchen sink tactic seen throughout the week against Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination for the next U.S. Attorney General included a bold effort tell the Senate Judiciary Committee directly that the nominee’s record of prosecuting federal voter fraud defendants served as an example of voter intimidation.