February 21st, 2019020By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – NAACP – was founded 110 years ago after a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, Illinois. “Because of the riots in Springfield, that brought about serious conversations and meetings about...
December 14th, 2018012Civil rights activists and groups are reacting with alarm and opposition to President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of William Barr to become the next Attorney General.
Barr was Attorney General during the George W. Walker Bush administration in the early 1990s and launched policies at the DOJ which increased the incarceration...
October 7th, 2018039TriceEdneyWire.com
“Our first project was to become familiar with the voter registration process and all the impediments that kept down the number of Negro voters. These impediments were quite formidable and sometimes unpredictable. The stated registration process required passing a literacy test and a citizenship test, computing...
June 30th, 2018024Recently, the NAACP, alongside members of the Congressional Black Caucus, gathered on the steps of Capitol Hill to demand a halt of the Trump administration’s continued attempts to force Thomas Farr – a known racist with ties to the late segregationist Senator Jesse Helms – into the federal judgeship of North Carolina.
