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President tells Americans to fight for their right to vote

In some ways, the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act could not have come at a better time, at least for the Democrats....

Amend Constitution to add a right to vote

On August 6, the Voting Rights Act, keystone of the civil rights movement, will mark its 50th anniversary. This was an act, passed in...

Needed: More Black male doctors

“While many initiatives and programs supported by foundations, medical schools, and government have contributed to increasing diversity in the physician pipeline, the number of...

Obama speaks plainly about racism in criminal justice system

      When President Obama spoke before the Philadelphia NAACP last week, he spoke our more forcefully and directly about the racial inequities inherent in the...

New Spokane NAACP president wants to repair Rachel Dolezal damage [video]

*Naima Quarles-Burnley (pictured), the new president of the Spokane NAACP, says she wants to focus on repairing the damage from the recent Rachel Dolezal controversy.Quarles-Burnley...

Confederate flag leaves State Capitol in Columbia, S.C.

The people’s representatives have spoken – early Thursday morning the SC House agreed that the Confederate battle flag will leave its place of prominence...

NBA demands removal of flag and no more systematic racism

Washington, DC – The National Bar Association (NBA), the nation’s oldest and largest national association of predominantly African-American lawyers, judges, educators and law students, is calling...

S.C. legislature gets votes to remove Confederate flag; KKK rallies

*There is enough support in the South Carolina legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds, according to number crunching from...

NY prison guards charged with providing tools to escapees

On June 6, Clinton Correctional Facility employees discovered that two convicted killers Richard Matt,49, and David Sweat,35, had escaped the prison leaving behind stuffed...

Cops make fast food run to Burger King for mass killer Dylann Roof

*(Via NY Daily News) – Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof got a free meal from police on his way to jail. They went to Burger King.After about 16 hours on the run, the admitted mass murderer complained to cops arresting him in Shelby, N.C., that he was hungry, so police got him food from […]

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