BALTIMORE — NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order creating a commission on voter fraud. Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO of the NAACP. (Twitter Photo) The recent executive order establishing the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity represents yet another veiled attempt to disenfranchise people of […]
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NAACP Voices Concerns on Civil Rights Laws and Election Integrity to DOJ
BALTIMORE, MD – The NAACP today engaged Attorney General Jeff Sessions in frank discussion on current threats to civil rights including voter suppression, police misconduct and civil rights enforcement issues. The NAACP discussed parallels between domestic driven voter suppression and the alleged election manipulation of our 2016 presidential election. “The vote represents that sacred sacrament […]
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NAACP BOARD CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC BOYCOTT OF NORTH CAROLINA
NAACP BOARD CITES RACIALLY-DISCRIMINATORY GERRYMANDERING AND VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS AS KEY REASONS FOR ECONOMIC BOYCOTT RALEIGH, NC—The NAACP Board of Directors announced a resolution calling for an international economic boycott of the state of North Carolina in response to actions of an all-white legislative caucus, which unconstitutionally designed racially-discriminatory gerrymandered districts, enacted a monster voter suppression […]
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Alabama NAACP to Protest Sessions Nomination Tuesday
Statewide Protests at Five Offices Across State Scheduled for January 3, 2017 MOBILE, AL—NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks will join with local Alabama chapters of the NAACP for a statewide protest of the nomination of Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for U.S. Attorney General. Alabamians Against Sessions for Attorney General will include five protests at […]
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NAACP Statement on Michael Slager Mistrial
BALTIMORE – The following is a statement from Cornell William Brooks, President, and CEO of the NAACP: “The NAACP is deeply frustrated that the trial of Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer who fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, after a routine traffic stop in 2015 has ended in a mistrial. Despite […]
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NAACP Deeply Disappointed Grand Jury Decided Not to Indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo
(Baltimore, MD) — A grand jury has decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner. Medical examiners found that a banned chokehold used by Officer Daniel Pantaleo contributed to the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner. In light of this decision, the NAACP has released the following statements: From Cornell William […]
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State’s Attorney-Elect Marilyn Mosby to Deliver Keynote Address at Baltimore City NAACP Banquet
Baltimore City State’s Attorney-elect Marilyn Mosby. (Baltimore, MD) The Baltimore City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will hold its Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Friday, November 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm at Martin’s West, 6817 Dogwood Road, Windsor Mill, MD. Baltimore City State’s Attorney-elect Marilyn Mosby will deliver […]
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Low Labor Force, High Poverty, and High Inequality
(Washington, DC) – The NAACP has released the following statement in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) September employment report which indicates that for the month of September the national unemployment rate was 5.9. The unemployment rate for Asians was 4.3 percent, for whites 5.1 percent, Latinos 6.9 percent and African Americans 11 percent. […]
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NAACP Statement Resignation of Los Angeles President Jenkins
(Baltimore, MD) – NAACP Interim President and CEO Lorraine C. Miller has accepted the resignation of Los Angeles NAACP President Leon Jenkins. In his letter of resignation, Mr Jenkins stated, “Please be advised that the legacy, history and reputation of the NAACP is more important to me than the presidency. In order to […]
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Embattled Chief of Miami Gardens, Fla., Police Department Resigns as NAACP Presses for Justice Department Review
(Miami Gardens, FL) – One day after the Florida State Conference of NAACP branches and its Miami-Dade County Branch asked Attorney General Eric Holder to direct the Justice Department to review the practice of intimidation by officers of the Miami Gardens Police Department against African American residents, Miami Gardens Police Chief Matthew Boyd resigned amid […]