NAACP leaders will go to the United Nation’s Human Rights Council in Geneva next week in hopes of winning support in its fight against voter suppression in the United States, NAACP President Benjamin T. Jealous said on Thursday. The delegation’s goal is to ask the U.N. to investigate multiple incursions into minority voting rights by…

New Jersey’s top FBI agent plans to visit a mosque as part of an outreach effort in the Muslim community today, a day after criticizing the New York Police Department for damaging relationships by spying on houses of worship and student organizations, according to the Associated Press. Michael Ward, the agent in charge of the…

The people behind a new campaign spreading across the Internet say they hope to make Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the violent Lord’s Resistance Army, “famous” so that he can be brought to justice, according to the Washington Post. The viral film, with tens of millions of views in the last day alone, was…

The Associated Press is reporting that Whitney Houston left everything to her 19-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina. The pop superstar’s will doesn’t mention specific assets, but leaves all of her furnishings, clothing, personal effects, jewelry and cars to her surviving children. Bobbi Kristina was her only child. Inside Edition first reported the will, filed in Atlanta,…

On Tuesday the U.S. Department of Education released the Civil Rights Data Collection sample, which found that public school educators unfairly punish minority students. The Associated Press had previously reported on a preliminary release of the report. The survey of 7,000 school districts and 72,000 schools was conducted during the 2009-2010 school year. It also…

The White House announced on Monday that it will not hold the upcoming G-8 economic summit in his hometown of Chicago and instead will host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland. The last-minute change for the highly publicized international summit reportedly came as a bit of a surprise to Chicago…

When news spread about the death of longtime New Jersey Rep. Donald M. Payne, it did not take long for leaders across the nation to react to the loss of the formidable 77-year-old leader, who was known for fighting hard for workforce protections and equality in public education. President Barack Obama was among the first…

The body of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was not buried at sea after his death during a raid by U.S. Armed Forces last year in Pakistan, according to leaked emails from the intelligence firm Stratfor, which were uncovered by Wikileaks, RT News reports. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound…

The Associated Press is reporting that more than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African American, according to an Education Department report. The report raises fresh questions about the fairness of discipline meted out in the nation’s public schools. From the Associated Press: Black…

On the eve of a re-enactment of the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., the NAACP hit back at a Minnesota conservative group for striking at the very heart of the movement: voting rights. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous released a statement on Thursday that excoriates the Minnesota Majority, a…