Presents an update on the 93rd Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was held at the Hilton & Towers Hotel in New York City on February 16,...
diversity in the state trooper ranks. Right now, there are a little more than 3,300 state troopers in New Jersey. According to the NAACP, only about 6% of them are Black.Advocates spoke to reporters Friday in Plainsboro, calling for reform throughout the department."If you don't have a ...
A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) logo is pictured on a mail box in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 21, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and NAACP reached a settlement to resol...
Colleagues are remembering Delaware's longtime NAACP President Richard "Mouse" Smith as a champion of justice and equality. Smith was active in the NAACP since the '60s and was also a lifelong friend to President Biden with the two fi
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice PresidentKamala Harrisis to receive theNAACP's Chairman's Award during the civil rights organization's Image Awards ceremony this weekend. Harris, defeated byDonald Trumpin last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and
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Burns cited a 2020 report by former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, which reviewed racial bias in New York State’s court system, while discussing the portrait’s commission. In his findings, Johnson described “a second-class system of justice for people of color in New York State...
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” Kamala Harris told the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night in her first major public appearance since leaving office last month. Accepting this year’s Chairman’s Award on Saturday at the 56th NAACP Image
Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday at the age of 92. Dukes peacefully passed away in her New York City home surrounded by family, her son, Ronald Dukes, said in a statement. Dukes, who led the New Yor...