Jocques Clemmons, 31, was shot and killed by Nashville, Tenn., Police Officer Joshua Lippert on Feb. 10, and two…
A Gwinnett County, Ga., police officer has prompted social media outrage after video of him kicking a handcuffed man…
“Before the NAACP came to New Orleans, we never had the opportunity to share,” Kim Ford, communications chair for…
The NAACP is hosting the sixth in a series of at least seven national hearings discussing the impact of charter…
A community is outraged about cellphone footage going viral on social media that shows a Charlotte, N.C., beauty…
On Saturday, black excellence gathered in Pasadena, Calif., to celebrate its greatness, and The Root was on the red…
The NAACP Image Awards have been around for the past 48 years. That is almost five decades of honoring black…
Hours after a municipal prosecutor in Mobile, Ala., dropped all trespassing charges against the NAACP officials and…
Voter suppression is alive and well, and a case in Alabama’s Black Belt proves it.
Six days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, a coalition of civil rights groups led by the National Action Network…
Ted Bonner, an eastern-Arkansas school board member, is being called on to resign by the Arkansas NAACP and several…
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White supremacist leader Preston Wiginton is a genius racist, but that's where his genius ends. On Wednesday the…
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On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal gave a racist speech to educators in the state, Raw Story reports.
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The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is suing North Carolina over an alleged voter purge that it claims…
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Based on its century-long mission and in-the-trenches fight for social justice, it certainly goes without saying…
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To the chagrin of charter advocates, on Friday the national board of the NAACP ratified an earlier resolution (pdf)…
A video of a black Minnesota man being handcuffed for walking in a street near a sidewalk that was closed for…
Nationwide School 'Walk-ins' Organized to Demand Educational Justice for Black and Brown Communities
On Thursday the union-affiliated Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools organized “walk-ins” in 200 cities and 2,000 public…
Twenty-five years ago this summer, black America had to deal with a very serious allegation: that boxing powerhouse…
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