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By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although President Obama has yet to declare an end to the 40-year-old war on drugs, he has placed the weight of his office on viewing drug addiction as more than just a criminal justice issue. Last Wednesday, Obama released his 2012 National Drug Control Strategy, which [...]
More than 20,000 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Sunday in a reenactment of the Bloody Sunday March of 1965 which helped to pass the Voting Rights Act. The bridge crossing was one of fifty events in a packed weekend agenda of workshops, breakfasts, dinners, film festivals, plays and other activities to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers will deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Jan. 21. The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday that Myrlie Evers-Williams would deliver the prayer. It comes 50 years after her husband was gunned down in the driveway of his [...]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Both President Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, have rejected an invitation from the NAACP and other Black groups, to participate in a forum to discuss issues important to African-Americans. In late September, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored [...]
(Austin, TX) – The NAACP commended a federal court’s decision to block the use of new redistricting maps approved by the Texas legislature and Texas Attorney General, based on evidence of discrimination. “We now have a recent decision of coordinated discrimination on behalf of a governmental body in a jurisdiction covered by the Voting Rights [...]
By Associated Press HOUSTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tues day he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections, because it would be harmful to minority voters. In remarks to the NAACP in Houston, the attorney general said the Justice Department “will not allow political pretexts to [...]
Representatives from more than 25 statewide organizations will gather in Montgomery to strengthen a coalition and solidify strategies for addressing laws and practices in Alabama that are designed to deny and deprive individuals and groups of their civil and human rights. The Save Ourselves Summit II is scheduled for Saturday, June 30, 2012 beginning at [...]
By Akeya Dickson, Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As many as 5 million people could be denied access to right to vote in the November presidential election because of a series of regressive actions, including insisting on photo identification at the polls, reducing time allotted for early voting and eliminating [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Defenders Online (New Orleans, LA) – This week, voting rights advocates won an important legal victory that will ensure that Louisiana’s public assistance agency clients—the state’s poorest and most marginalized residents—will be offered an opportunity to register to vote. In a forceful decision, a federal judge ruled in favor [...]
By Ben Wrobel Special to the NNPA from the NAACP On Friday, February 17th, artists and entertainers will gather on the red carpet for the 43rd NAACP Image Awards. The two-hour star-studded event will air live on February 17th at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. central) on NBC. The NAACP Image Awards is the [...]
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