By Ben Wrobel The NAACP took a principled stand against voter suppression at their 103rd Annual Convention last week in Houston, Texas. The theme “Your Power, Your Decision – VOTE” was on full display as delegates heard from Vice President Biden and Governor Mitt Romney and learned about attacks on the right to vote in [...]

Compiled by Courier Staff This week Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed the 103rd NAACP Annual Convention in Houston, TX. The speech took place during a plenary session on civic engagement that later featured a panel of experts speaking about voting rights and voter suppression. “We are pleased that Governor Romney addressed our convention today,” [...]

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 [...]

(Baltimore, MD) – The NAACP mourns the loss of Judge Robert L. Carter, federal judge and General Counsel for the NAACP during Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and other landmark cases. In 2004, Carter earned the NAACP’s highest honor, the Spingarn Medal. He passed away on January 3, 2012. “We have lost a [...]

The Reverend Dr. John R. Walton, Jr., Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church of Milwaukee, the church’s Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Committee and the Political Action Committee of the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP have joined forces to co-host an opportunity for our churches , family , friends and others in the community to become [...]

By Denise Rolark Barnes Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Civil rights icon, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth has died, leaving few remaining living leaders of the U.S. civil rights movement. Shuttlesworth was co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He passed away on Oct. 5, at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, in Birmingham. He [...]

PHOTO OF THE WEEK Milwaukee NAACP Branch, Unit 3254 held its Annual Freedom Fund Dinner on Satruday Sept. 24, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. The Honorable Judge Greg Mathis was the keynote speaker. Milwaukee NAACP president Atty. James H. Hall is pictured above presenting Judge Mathis with a gift on behalf [...]

The NAACP is pleased to partner with St. Mary’s – Columbia, the Milwaukee Health Department Well Women Program and Sandford Brown Medical Assistant Program, to provide breast cancer community education and screening in minority communities. The event will be October 8, 2011 from 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Milwaukee office of the NAACP, located on [...]

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 [...]