NAACP News
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Are the Oscars finally colorblind?
8:52 AM on 03/07/2010
Do the nominations of Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Daniels and Freeman herald a real shift in the Academy Awards' rocky reputation with the black community?
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'Precious' wins big at 41st NAACP Image Awards
11:31 AM on 02/27/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The heart-wrenching tale of an illiterate and abused teen who finds hope in a Harlem classroom was named outstanding motion picture...
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Diversity in the arts celebrated at Image Awards
1:21 PM on 02/26/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mary J. Blige, Morgan Freeman, and Jamie Foxx are among the stars set to celebrate diversity in the arts at the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards on Friday...
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Van Jones returns: 'I'm more committed to the politics of hope now'
9:19 AM on 02/26/2010
OPINION - So what's on Jones' mind these days? Everything from the meaning of the NAACP Image award to the African-American community's role in the green economy...
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Tyler Perry's off-screen performances are worthy of NAACP honor
7:59 AM on 02/26/2010
OPINION - While I question his method behind his movie characters, at least Perry puts his money where his mouth is to support causes and issues he cares about...
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NAACP elects youngest chairman to appeal to new generation
3:50 PM on 02/20/2010
Roslyn M. Brock's election as chairman of the NAACP is being hailed by the civil rights organization as a "generational shift" in leadership...
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Blacks have endured a decade-long jobless recovery, leaders say
6:31 PM on 02/10/2010
In a meeting that many in the African-American community considered a long time coming, President Obama met with black leaders today ...
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The sit-ins that changed America
12:06 PM on 02/02/2010
From The LA Times: Of the big events of the early civil rights movement, the sit-ins have always been the least understood and, yet, the most important for today's young activists...
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Cornel West urges people not to 'sanitize' King's legacy
10:47 AM on 01/19/2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Scholar and activist Cornel West invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday...
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'Precious' leads nominees for NAACP Image Awards
2:06 PM on 01/06/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The heart-wrenching story of an illiterate and abused Harlem teen who finds hope in a classroom of misfits led the nominations..
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Disgraced Mississippi judge reports to federal prison
8:30 AM on 01/05/2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison...
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Georgetown students say campus satire is racist
3:11 PM on 12/16/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Georgetown University students are slamming a humor magazine for an online satirical piece they say is racist and not funny...
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NAACP seeks federal review of Conn. teen's shooting
4:11 PM on 12/14/2009
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The NAACP's Connecticut branch wants a federal review of the case in which an all-white jury exonerated a white Hartford detective who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager...
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Minority groups want audacity from Obama on job creation
8:41 AM on 12/03/2009
OPINION - The absence of jobs may be made worse by Obama's reluctance to take a more aggressive, personalized approach in pursuit of more public-works projects...
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NAACP files complaint against North Carolina school district
9:00 AM on 12/02/2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) --The NAACP has filed a federal complaint against an eastern North Carolina public school system. The organization claims the district has deliberately segregated schools.
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Despite pact, few blacks at Coast Guard school
8:33 AM on 11/25/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy...
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Tyler Perry donates $1 million to NAACP
1:18 PM on 11/24/2009
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to commemorate the 100th...
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Heather Ellis case one in a long line of Missouri's racial injustices
8:07 AM on 11/18/2009
OPINION - The Heather Ellis case snaps into focus broad, systemic and longstanding problems with discriminatory policing and prosecutions across the state of Missouri...
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NAACP prods Obama on job losses
9:43 AM on 11/17/2009
With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more to create jobs...
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Wal-Mart arrest leads to charges of racism
8:53 AM on 11/16/2009
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store, the schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years...
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