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Obama NAACP Speech (VIDEO): "Your Destiny Is In Your Hands... No Excuses"

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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NEW YORK - President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the NAAC...

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What the NAACP Means to Me

Rinku Sen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Multiracial, Immigration, Race, Naacp Centennial, Immigration Debate, Naacp, Politics News

The essential challenge facing the NAACP is being a racial justice leader in a multiracial nation.

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Eric Holder: We Haven't Achieved Racial Equality Yet

Essence | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder Race, Racial Equality, Eric Holder Naacp, Race Relations, Holder Racial Equality, Eric Holder, Naacp, Politics News

Eric Holder could have had a career as a rock star if he never bothered to study law. The United States Attorney General stood centerstage in front of...

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NAACP Endorses Climate Change Legislation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Lee, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Congressional Black Caucus, National Wildlife Federation, Climate Change, Naacp, Politics News

Climate change advocates gained the support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday, the first time the organizat...

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NAACP, Marking Centennial Of Founding, Announces Program To Report Police Misconduct

AP | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York

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Combining its century-old mission of fighting for equality with the instantaneous reach of modern-day technology, the NAACP has launched a program tha...

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NAACP Using Cell Phones To Fight Racism

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 08.13.2009 | Home

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NEW YORK — Combining its century-old mission of fighting for equality with the instantaneous reach of modern-day technology, the NAACP has launc...

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Let the Hearing Begin

Nan Aron | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alliance for Justice, Samuel Alito, Sotomayor Confirmation, John Roberts, Judge Sotomayor, Sotomayor Nomination, Supreme Court, Naacp, Perldef, Politics News

Next week will do more than allow Americans to learn more about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it will also present an opportunity to examine the legal agenda of the hard-right.

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Gay People Should Celebrate NAACP's Centennial

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Benjamin Jealous, Naacp and Gays, Racism, Julian Bond, Human Rights Campaign, Naacp Centennial, Naacp, Gay Marriage, Jim Crow, Politics News

We need to make sure that everyone in our community enjoys equal rights in America whatever race, religion or nationality. Racism is a gay issue.

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The Clean Energy Bill Story You Haven't Heard

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Bobby Rush, Clean Energy, Green for All, Naacp, Waxman-Markey, Climate Bill, Aces, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Green News

We're building a growing consensus that low-income communities and communities of color must have a fair stake in a new clean energy economy.

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Biloxi Removing FEMA Trailers, Undermining Obama and Victimizing Katrina Survivors

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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Picketing President Obama Is the Wrong Way to Get Blacks to Back Gay Marriage

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mormons Gay Marriage, Christian Fundamentalisst Groups, Catholic Church, Proposition 8, Initiatives, Presdient Obama, Reggie White, Black Ministers, Gay Marriage, Naacp, Politics News

Many, perhaps the majority of blacks, can be won to back same sex marriage as a paramount civil rights issue. Because that's what it is. But picketing President Obama is the absolute wrong way to get them to do that.

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Must The Blind Lead The Blind?

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living

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Clearly, something big and important is going on. A major shift in the way people think about work. Might we consider welcoming the people who want to be the New Radicals with open arms?

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Put Donald T. Sterling's NAACP Award on Hold

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Donald T. Sterling, La Clippers, Racism, Lifetime Achievement Award, Elgin Baylor, Justice Department, Naacp, Politics News

The absurdity of giving this award to a man who in word, deed, and symbol is the diametric opposite of everything the nation's premier civil rights group stands for and has fought for is enough to draw a gag.

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Worse Spokespeople Than Bristol Palin

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Brady Campaign, Tea Party Protests, Wto, Bristol Palin Abstinence, Swine Flu Pandemic, Somali Pirates, Ron Paul, Swine Flu, George W. Bush, Nadya Suleman, Mexico, Rielle Hunter, Naacp, Dick Cheney, Noam Chomsky, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Politics, World Trade Organization, Swine Flu Mexico, Elizabeth Edwards, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, Rick Santelli, Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin Levi Johnston, Tea Party, Bristol Palin, David Duke, Tea Bagging, Bristol Palin Baby, Comedy News

1. George W. Bush for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental). He's is not just the former president, he's a client.

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Democracy Hangs in the Balance on Obama's 100th Day

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: 100 Days, Voting Rights Act, First Hundred Days, Barack Obama, Naacp, Politics News

Now is the time for the Supreme Court to reject this latest threat to realizing our promise of democracy and assure every American can vote.

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Time to Dream Big

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, Prison, David Paterson, Drug War, Drug Laws, Naacp, Politics News

Repeal of New York state's Rockefeller drug laws signals a perfect storm for changing our expensive, ineffective, and discriminatory drug laws.

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The 1-Question Climate Quiz

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Green for All, Climate Equity Alliance, Seiu, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Naacp, Green News

The Climate Equity Alliance represents how choosing between environment and the economy is a false choice. Strong climate legislation can, and must, be strong economic legislation.

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Unions, Civil Rights Groups Launch Ground War For Pro-Worker Bill Pundits Declared Dead

Art Levine | Posted 05.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Economic Recovery, Blanche Lincoln, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, African-Americans, Naacp, Employee Free Choice Act, Home News

While some Washington pundits have declared the Employee Free Choice Act essentially dead because Republican Senator Arlen Sp...

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Chris Brown And Now BeBe Winans! Black America Where Is the Outrage?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tavis Smiley, Michelle Obama, Chris Brown, Black America, Obama, The Black Family, Barack Obama, Juanita Bynum, Spousal Abuse, Oprah Winfrey, Black Leaders, Black Leadership, Black Men, African Americans, Naacp, Black Abuse, Slavery, Physical Abuse, President Obama, The Huxatables, Black Boys, First Couple, Cosby Family, Rihanna, Racism, The State of the Black Union, The First Couple, BeBe Winans, The-Winans, Entertainment, Politics News

How come the majority of people vocal about violence against Rihanna have been white women? How come black women as have not come together as a collective to say enough is enough?

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NAACP: Wells Fargo, HSBC Forced Blacks Into Subprime Loans

AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business

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The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates. Clas...

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NAACP Wants NY Post Editor Col Allan, Cartoonist Sean Delonas Fired

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 03.24.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invit...

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Holder Should Finger Presidents for Race Cowardice

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Affirmative Action, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder, Raical Dialogue, Racial Riots, George Bush sr.race, Kerner Commission, Naacp, John McCain, Presidents, Politics News

Holder dared to challenge the nation on the taboo R word. Just don't expect much more to come of it.

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Who Are the Colored People?

Will.i.am | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Will.I.Am, Education, Video, Celebrities Talk Politics, Green, Environment, Community, Al Gore, Diversity, Naacp, Barack Obama, will.i.am Naacp, Politics News

If the NAACP fought so that a black man could be president in a country that practiced slavery, then it should now stand and represent all people of color and fight to unite every version of "pigment."

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When Images Became Action: What Barack Owes to Virgil, Cliff, Theo, and Other Fake Black People

Wyatt Closs | Posted 03.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Palmer, Bill Cosby, President David Palmer, Barack Obama, The Cosby Show, Race in Politics, Award Season, Naacp, Entertainment News

When Barack was growing up, so too, was the recognition of images that would allow that age-old refrain "You could be President" to ring true. We now know it must be true. We saw it on television.

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