By Caryn Freeman Special to the NNPA This year’s Black Press Week held in Washington, DC culminated with the award ceremony honoring Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, who received an award for community service and founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Eldelmen who received a lifetime achievement award for her [...]

By Benjamin Todd Jealous President & CEO, NAACP This year, on the day our nation celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I proudly stood alongside NAACP State Conference presidents on the steps of the capitol building in Columbia, South Carolina for the annual King Day at the Dome March and Rally. The event has grown [...]

Compiled by Courier Staff Despite years of stays, appeals, protests and even a last minute apparent review of the case by the U.S. Supreme Court, the State of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis on Wednesday evening. The official time of death was 11:08 pm eastern time. Davis refused a last meal, spent most of his [...]

This week, the NAACP announced that president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous will speak at the National Action Network’s (NAN) The Emancipator (Abraham Lincoln) To the Liberator (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Official Rally & March on Saturday, August 27th 2011, in Washington, DC. “This is an historic moment in civil rights and American history,” [...]

By Marc H. Morial President and CEO of the National Urban League “It is clear that the unemployment numbers throughout the country require effective legislation and tangible action to address the crisis. To address the unemployment crisis and the need for job creation solutions in underserved communities, the CBC has called upon the private and [...]

Black Publishers and National Leaders unite behind NNPA Chairman Bakewell to hold Toyota accountable By Jasmyne A. Cannick, NNPA Nat’l Correspondent WASHINGTON D.C. – Toyota Motor Sales USA executives have angered National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Chairman Danny Bakewell Sr. and America’s preeminent Black newspaper publishers after the troubled carmaker backed out of a multi-million [...]

(BALTIMORE, MD) – The NAACP issued a call today for all emerging leaders to join Association Chairman Roslyn M. Brock in Hollywood, Florida during Memorial Day weekend. The seventh annual Leadership 500 Summit will encourage discussions on a revitalized civic agenda that lays groundwork for young professionals in the modernday civil rights movement. “In 2011, [...]

By Jasmin K. Williams Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Education over incarceration is the message of a report released by the NAACP. The nation’s oldest civil rights organization is challenging America to re-evaluate its spending priorities in the report, titled “Misplaced Priorities: Under Educate, Over Incarcerate,” which was introduced at [...]

By Christopher Fleming of the NAACP and Walter Smith of the NNPA Recently there was an issue between the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and the NAACP. NNPA member publishers had become upset when they discovered that the NAACP had inserted multi-page Viewer’s Guide advertising for its 42nd Image Awards in several markets throughout the [...]

(Baltimore, MD) – The NAACP honors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the federal holiday celebrating his life and achievements. Dr. King is considered the formative figure in the modern fight for civil rights. He led numerous boycotts, marches and rallies in the 1950’s and 1960’s, including the historic 1963 March on [...]