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The president of the Rock Hill NAACP in South Carolina joined with local clergy members, the city’s mayor and police chief, and the York County sheriff on Wednesday to urge…

Police Chief Chris Watts and Mayor John Gettys urged calm. They were joined in spreading that message by the local leader of an organization that historically has served as an…

The NAACP and civil rights leaders such as Stacey Abrams applauded the step. NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Georgia’s law was a “blatant assault on the American people’s most fundamental…

In an unexpected and bold move, President Russell M. Nelson announced a partnership with the NAACP in 2018 — just days before The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…

Friday’s sentence is a mere beginning, national NAACP president Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “While George Floyd’s murderer was held accountable in court, we know that no amount of…

While the most hard-line activists on the left were unsatisfied, civil rights groups deemed the compromise a good first step even if they wanted more accountability for police. NAACP President…

On Monday, the NAACP, along with a number of other civil rights groups, took the notable step of releasing statements singling out some law enforcement groups as trying to dilute…

All 50 G.O.P. senators opposed the sweeping elections overhaul, leaving a long-shot bid to eliminate the filibuster as Democrats’ best remaining hope to enact legal changes. Read entire article from…

Just weeks after a deeply unrepresentative US Senate voted down establishing a commission to investigate one of the most significant attacks on our democracy on 6 January, 50 senators who…

Interim National Director for Youth & College Division at the NAACP Wisdom Cole speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about how black borrowers are most impacted by student loan…