MARYLAND – The NAACP is receiving criticism for showcasing different Hip Hop acts at their upcoming “NAACP Image Awards” including Jaz-Z, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj. Rev. Delman Coates, a pastor of the Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland has directly addressed the civil rights groups choice of performers. RELATED: Top 9 must see […]

Since reviving and presiding over the Charlotte NAACP in 2009, Kojo Nantambu has insured the venerable Civil Rights organization will remain insignificant in Charlotte. Nantambu has spent much of his presidency screaming racism at any and everyone. His latest target is the entire city of Charlotte, which he calls a bastion of racism. During an […]

NAACP President Kojo Nantambu blasted CMS superintendent Peter Gorman’s decision to make up a snow day on Dr. Martin Luther King’s Holiday. “Once again Dr. Gorman has shown total disdain and disrespect for a very significant part of this community. He continues to demonstrate a blatant deliberate disconnect with the African American Community,” said Rev. […]

VIA Radio One Cleveland Black Hollywood came out in full force for the 20th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards. Honorees this year included Ashanti and Jeffrey Wright.

The 2010 NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet honored local leaders, including My92.7’s Patrick Cannon, for the contributions to the Charlotte community. President’s Award: Makheru Bradley Hall of Fame: Attorney Geraldine Sumter Distinguished Service: Patrick D. Cannon Unsung Hero: Judge Rickye McKoy-Mitchell Community Empowerment: Damian & Jermaine Johnson Emerging Leader: William Ward, III

VIA NEWSONE For years, so many times, White women are abducted and the news and media stop and focus all of their attention on the missing White woman in hopes of bringing her home. We hear public cries from her family and friends etc… It has been long thought that that same attention and care […]

VIA NEWSONE Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official ousted during a racial firestorm last month, declined Tuesday to return to the agency, though she said it was tempting. Sherrod and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that she may work with the agency in a consulting capacity in the future to help it improve its outreach […]

VIA NEWSONE Tea Party Express spokesman, Mark Williams was asked to tell racists they were not welcome, by Roland Martin on the Wolf Blitzer show. He responded by saying, “Racists have their own movement. It’s called the NAACP.”

VIA: NewsOne.com Last week, the California State Conference of the NAACP announced its “unconditional endorsement” of a November initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana. According to a recent study by the Drug Policy Alliance, blacks are far more likely to be arrested for pot possession than whites — even though statistically, blacks […]

VIA NEWSONE Organizations led by civil rights leaders Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, who both died this month, were in the forefront of the fight for equal rights, but they are now struggling to stay relevant. And nowhere is that fight more evident than in the group founded by Martin Luther King Jr.: the Southern […]

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP will host its first Candidate Forum for Mecklenburg County Commission in conjunction with the General Body meeting today Monday, April 19th, 2010 at Little Rock AME Zion Church. The regular meeting begins at 5:30 PM followed by the forum from 6-8 PM.

The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.  Roslyn M. Brock, 44, was chosen to succeed Julian Bond. She had been vice chairman since 2001 and a member of the NAACP for 25 years. Brock works for Bon Secours Health Systems in Maryland as vice president […]