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Former NAACP president to run for Cummings' House seat
Former congressman and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume will run for the Maryland's House seat left vacant after the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.),...
naacp - The Hill1:50pm PST - November 5th, 2019
Teacher put on leave after video shows him in blackface as rapper Common for Halloween
As part of a Halloween costume, the teacher mimicked Microsoft commercials in which the rapper showcases the future of artificial intelligence.
naacp - USA Today10:47am PST - November 5th, 2019
Former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume to run for Maryland congressional seat
Kweisi Mfume, a close friend of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, held the Maryland congressional seat from 1987 to 1996 before stepping down to lead the NAACP
naacp - NBC News8:42am PST - November 5th, 2019
Former NAACP president to run for Elijah Cummings' seat in Congress
Kweisi Mfume once held the seat left vacant by the late Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings
naacp - CBS News11:55am PST - November 4th, 2019
Castro meets fundraising goal to stay in 2020 race
The former Cabinet secretary told supporters he had to raise $800,000 in the last 10 days of October to avoid dropping out.
naacp - Politico7:12am PDT - November 1st, 2019
From Annie to Tina Turner, and Trained to Go the Distance
Singer, dancer, athlete, fan: how Adrienne Warren learned to stop fighting herself and interpret the musical role of a lifetime.
naacp - The New York Times12:28am PDT - October 31st, 2019
Maryland governor sets special election date to fill Cummings' seat
The special general election will be April 28 — the same day as the state's presidential primary
naacp - CBS News10:31am PDT - October 28th, 2019
Bed Bath & Beyond Pulls Black Jack-o'-Lanterns over Blackface Complaint
Retailer Bed Bath & Beyond reportedly pulled all of its black jack-o'-lanterns from its stores after receiving a complaint stating that the lanterns were a form of blackface.
naacp - Breitbart News3:01pm PDT - October 23rd, 2019
US: Two UConn students charged with shouting racial slur
Jarred Karal and Ryan Mucaj were charged with ridicule on account of creed, religion, colour or race, police say.
naacp - Al Jazeera English5:43pm PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Joe Biden suggested Bill Clinton's impeachment was a 'partisan lynching' in 1998
Vice President Joe Biden condemned President Donald Trump's use of the term "lynching" to describe the House's impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, calling Trump's comments "despicable." In 1998, Biden similarly suggested that former President Bill Clinton's impea…
naacp - Business Insider5:07pm PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Trump slammed for calling impeachment inquiry a 'lynching'
Democrats and some Republicans condemn remarks, pointing to US's racist history of lynching black people.
naacp - Al Jazeera English5:06pm PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Gwen Ifill memorialized with USPS Forever stamp
The Postal Service announced on Tuesday that Gwen Ifill’s photograph will be featured on the 43rd stamp in the Postal Service’s Black Heritage series.
naacp - NBC News3:29pm PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Trump portrayed himself as the ultimate victim by describing impeachment as 'a lynching.' We spoke to historians who say the comparison is 'laughably absurd' and 'deeply offensive.'
President Donald Trump has racked up a record of stoking racial fault lines for his own gain. Confronted with escalating pressure from impeachment proceedings he's called "a coup," Trump added another example of his willingness to employ racial attacks on Tue…
naacp - Business Insider1:44pm PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Trump calls impeachment inquiry a "lynching"
Several lawmakers have spoken out against the president's use of the word – including Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate
naacp - CBS News10:42am PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Students ARRESTED after racial slur dare game is recorded & posted on Twitter
Two University of Connecticut students have been arrested after they were filmed trading racial slurs back and forth in what appeared to be a vulgar word game. The video was posted online and sparked protests on campus. Read Full Article at RT.com
naacp - RT9:09am PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Trump Faces Swift Criticism After Likening Impeachment Inquiry to a ‘Lynching’
President Trump injected racial overtones into the House impeachment inquiry Tuesday by comparing the investigation to a "lynching."
naacp - Time8:13am PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Connecticut College Students Charged With Violating State Law Prohibiting ‘Ridicule’ after Using Racial Slur
Students Jarred Karal and Ryan Mucaj were arrested by campus police Monday night after using a racial slur in an incident captured on video.
naacp - National Review7:06am PDT - October 22nd, 2019
2 white students arrested after video showed them shouting racial slurs
Two white college students were arrested Monday at the University of Connecticut after video surfaced of them shouting racist epithets in a parking lot
naacp - NBC News5:17am PDT - October 22nd, 2019
A video caught white students saying the n-word. Amid outcry, they’ve been criminally charged. - The Washington Post
A video caught white students saying the n-word. Amid outcry, they’ve been criminally charged. The Washington Post UConn students charged after being caught on video shouting racial slurs New York Post View full coverage on Google News
naacp - The Washington Post2:57am PDT - October 22nd, 2019
Civil rights groups urge Facebook to act against discrimination and voter suppression
More than 45 civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign, came together to urge Facebook to protect civil rights and address discrimination on its platform.
naacp - CNN4:40pm PDT - October 21st, 2019
NAACP Chapter Calls on UConn Administration to 'Apply the Proper Justice' After Students Filmed Shouting N-Word
The NAACP UConn chapter also demanded the Delta Epsilon Psi fraternity be disbanded after two members allegedly called a student a racial slur during an off-campus party.
naacp - Newsweek8:11am PDT - October 21st, 2019
Judge hits Florida law limiting felon vote in limited ruling
The decision means that the legal battle will churn on in the months ahead of the 2020 election in which President Donald Trump is seeking a second term in office.
naacp - Politico3:38pm PDT - October 18th, 2019
Trump judicial nominee faces another setback
“I think there’s still some folks that have questions, kind of struggling and going through the vetting,” said Sen. Joni Ernst.
naacp - Politico2:15pm PDT - October 17th, 2019
Smithsonian Museums Are Supposed to Tell the American Story. So Where’s the One Dedicated to Latinos?
When I was growing up in San Antonio, Mexican culture permeated every aspect of American culture. I heard Spanish every day: at the grocery store, on the playground and, of course, at home. The staples in the school cafeteria included corn dogs, but also chee…
naacp - Time11:17am PDT - October 15th, 2019
The Hardest Part of Home Schooling Was the Guilt
I had home-schooled my daughter for the past two years, so the test also felt like a final exam for me: Her score was also my teaching evaluation.
naacp - The New York Times2:00am PDT - October 10th, 2019
RT @JNelsonLDF: @NAACP_LDF Alabama proves time & again why this country needs a permanent and expanded Voting Rights Act to reign in rogue…
Maura p ☘️ (@mpplvt)1:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @vikrambath1: The Republican Party was not always this way. This is from George W Bush’s speech to the NAACP https://t.co/vUqpCsHLmw
John Thorsson (@thorsson_john)1:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: @NAACP_LDF @NAACP_LDF will be filing an objection to Alabama’s racially discriminatory map with a demand to remove the stat…
Maura p ☘️ (@mpplvt)1:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
Un-PAC (@LetsUnpac)1:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
TaritaC.bsky.social (@TaritaC)1:53pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: So when the MGM offered roles in Cabin in the Sky to everybody Black, all those Harlem Renaissance New Negroes who went…
AAmom (@AVD911)1:52pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
Housewifery and bully dog nonsense (@rawalkerWSU)1:51pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
Louie Skipper (@Fr_Louie)1:50pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
•sad•girl•cassiopeia•™ (@sadgirlcassi)1:49pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
DeSantis is a showboating piece of shit. So's his wife. The ASSHOLE school board who approved this shit are the ones needing to be sued. NAACP got anything??? I'm fucking White and I'm OUTRAGED!!! https://t.co/m12zaR07py
CaliMalarkey (@MalarkeyCali)1:46pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: So when the MGM offered roles in Cabin in the Sky to everybody Black, all those Harlem Renaissance New Negroes who went…
Purity For Thee But Not For Me (@TheePurity)1:46pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @TonyHussein4: Florida Governor DeSantis is being sued by Disney and the world's largest book publisher, Penguin. The NAACP recently iss…
Matt Hakala (@HakalaMatt66)1:45pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
The people behind him are just as dangerous. The asian lady think it's cute. Look at her giddy laugh. @thereidout @ElieNYC @NAACP @DerrickNAACP @donlemon @AOC @CoriBush @TheBlackCaucus https://t.co/Po55AyhhR9
wht (@teamobama4life)1:45pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: But these were the “New Negroes” - a group of Harlem Renaissance artists & Black activists who laid the foundation of t…
Janet Potts (@proverbialcat)1:05pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: So when the MGM offered roles in Cabin in the Sky to everybody Black, all those Harlem Renaissance New Negroes who went…
Janet Potts (@proverbialcat)1:05pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: Well, a few years earlier, Hattie McDaniel was the FIRST Black woman to win an Oscar for “Gone with the Wind,” a racist…
Janet Potts (@proverbialcat)1:04pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
Today in 2020 @AlcornStateU alumnus Charles Evers died. Was @NAACP Mississippi Voter Registration Chairman and later succeeded brother as field director in MS. In 1969 became 1st African-American elected as the mayor of Fayette, Mississippi. https://t.co/aEOr0Sdv9B
HBCU Guru- The 107 (@The107_hbcu)12:57pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
The NAACP x BACARDI are awarding over $350,000 in acceleration grants and support for Black-owned bars, restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, liquor stores, and small businesses in the process of applying for a liquor license. To apply - https://t.co/NGzdrOwzco
diverserepresentation (@diverserep)12:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
NAACP convention 2023: Boston can change its image, leaders say https://t.co/c2s32DgmWq via @BostonGlobe This is HUGE! Boston has Changed
Gloria Kennedy Fleck (@mssenator)12:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
Dear chat welp. Yea twitter ain't coming back. Wtf you can't even talk to the people you want. Naw @POTUS @FTC @FBI @NAACP someone need to step in. This should be illegal. Trash ass app. I'm not paying for this shit stop asking @elonmusk find me on spoutible. https://t.co/qiOXYOTHlh
K.i.s.m. (@mike_inago)12:54pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: In 1949, MGM announced they were going to make a Bojangles Robinson biopic! The old crew agreed to be in it. They cance…
leon boone (@BigLee84)12:52pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
Justice for Nipsey... (They Sacrificed him for GRISELDA) #RickieJames CON forge! WHO initials in the SUN??? YET I RESPECTED NAACP,as a Black Mom, he Participating in Concealing or speaking Up for Black Women & our Kids...but Take Casea when our People killed? ALL THEM IS… https://t.co/9FavoNXgeO https://t.co/a04PLsHG31
Keita James Irvin☮️HUMANITY 1st (@issaKmarie)12:52pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
Agent K - (@KSWenger)12:50pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: So when the MGM offered roles in Cabin in the Sky to everybody Black, all those Harlem Renaissance New Negroes who went…
leon boone (@BigLee84)12:49pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @michaelharriot: Well, a few years earlier, Hattie McDaniel was the FIRST Black woman to win an Oscar for “Gone with the Wind,” a racist…
leon boone (@BigLee84)12:49pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
.@VP .@IlhanMN .@RepJayapal .@RepJeffries .@RashidaTlaib .@CoriBush .@RepBowman .@AyannaPressley .@NationalAction .@NAACP No one globally has had more slaves than the Muslims. It is white Christians in this country who helped end the slavery .@TheDemocrats worked to preserve.
Deanna Hodson (@deanna_hodson)12:47pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
RT @JNelsonLDF: MUST WATCH: @NAACP_LDF Associate Director-Counsel @TonaBoydEsq powerfully explains how Alabama’s defiance of a Supreme Cour…
flygyrl72 (@flygyrl72)12:44pm PDT - July 22nd, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/pKdWrzT7CS
fredericksburg.com (@NewsInTheBurg)5:06am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/rLDB4UKvbK
GoDanRiver (@GoDanRiver)5:05am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/7YLDQBJMcE
The Roanoke Times (@roanoketimes)5:05am PDT - July 19th, 2023
RT @NAACP: Gen Z, this is for you! Join @NAACPYC_'s “Gen Z Culture Talk,” where youth leaders from various backgrounds will have the opport…
Jasmine C-M (@JCM_InfoTech)5:04am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/ygNdEY1hpx
The Star-Exponent (@CulpeperSE)5:04am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/RnEhfsFVhA
MartinsvilleBulletin (@MVilleBulletin)5:03am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/bVKGYmNMOY
Herald Courier (@heraldcourier)5:03am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/vx8j3W6L21
The News Virginian (@NewsVirginian)5:03am PDT - July 19th, 2023
On this day in 1958, the local NAACP Youth Council in Wichita, Kansas, organized a three-week protest of segregated drug store. https://t.co/N6zwwK1TsG
Mississippi Today (@MSTODAYnews)5:01am PDT - July 19th, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James have offer insight after months of speculation from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups as to what criteria the administration considers when restoring rights to formerly inc... https://t.co/el35KGli7R
The Daily Progress (@DailyProgress)5:01am PDT - July 19th, 2023
RT @DMIRANDABu54644: @RepSwalwell @USCongress @POTUS @USSupremeCourt @AG @CivilRights @TheJusticeDept @DepartmentofJ @DeptofDefense @StateD…
Darlene-MIRANDA Burroughs (@DMIRANDABu54644)4:59am PDT - July 19th, 2023
RT @ZinnEdProject: Woolworth 1960 Greensboro sit-in often cited as first. However, #tdih 1958, Ron Walters, Carol Parks-Haun, & more in…
Johnny Profane Âû (@johnnyprofane1)4:58am PDT - July 19th, 2023
RT @cleanslatemoco: More @willjawando falsehoods. https://t.co/WNo0Ndsl31
Andi (@andi0304)4:58am PDT - July 19th, 2023