NAACP Announces Virtual March to Address Police Violence, Voter Mobilization
Derrick Johnson: “Our 2020 Virtual March on Washington is about asking everyone — from protesters in the streets to elected officials at all levels of government — to…
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NAACP: Zuckerberg Isn’t Addressing White Supremacy on Facebook
NAACP: "Mark Zuckerberg, you aren’t breaking things, you are breaking people. With a stroke of a pen, you could make Facebook better for your users, your advertisers, and…
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS, TO CALL FOR FEDERAL REFORM OF POLICE
The leaders of the nation’s top civil rights and social justice organizations and several members of Congress have scheduled a media briefing to demand federal action to reform…
NAACP CONDEMNS MINNEAPOLIS POLICE FOR “STATE-SANCTIONED MURDER” OF GEORGE FLOYD
Minneapolis NAACP's Leslie Remond: “The cruel display of the state-sanctioned murder that took place in Minneapolis is yet another repugnant show of violence by the police." Photo: YouTube…
NNPA’s Ben Chavis Believes Reports of Death of Black Print Media are Premature
NAACP President/CEO Johnson. Photo: Wikipedia. A recent NAACP "Black Media Speaks" forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced…
NEW POLL REVEALS COVID-19’S IMPACTS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Henry Fernandez: “This poll is both sad and empowering. It demonstrates how devastating economically and personally the pandemic has been on African-American families and how little trust they…
NATIONAL RIGHTS GROUPS CALL FOR PAUSE IN JUDICIAL CONFIRMATIONS PROCESS DURING COVID-19
NAACP's Derrick Johnson: “The Senate’s move to advance Trump’s judicial nominations in the middle of a deadly pandemic will go down in history as an indefensible dereliction of…
COVID-19: NATIONAL BLACK LEADERS URGE PEOPLE TO IGNORE CRAZY GOVERNORS AND STAY HOME
"We, the undersigned, have joined together to state our unequivocal and firm opposition to the premature effort of governors to willfully re-open their states. The actions of these…
NAACP AND BET EXPLORE COVID-19’S DEVASTATING IMPACT ON AFRICAN-AMERICANS
NAACP & BET are hosting a four-part virtual town hall series, “Unmasked: A COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall Series”...Our people are dying at disproportionate numbers, and we can’t afford…
NAACP JOINS FORCES WITH TELEVISION BROADCASTERS TO PROMOTE 2020 CENSUS
Joining forces with WeTV, CBS, and a host of notable influencers to push out PSAs that highlight the importance of the Census, the NAACP is taking a robust…