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 Cyril Josh Barker Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News President Barack Obama went to New York last week with a renewed vigor to address the National Action Network’s annual gala. He hit on several key points as he praised the organization’s 20 years of existence. The now-confirmed candidate for the [...]

Pharoh Martin, NNPA National Correspondent In a rare appearance, all in one place, a coalition of America’s foremost Black organizations are aiming to assure that the 2010 census does not undercount Black people, a fiasco that could cause communities to miss out on their fair share of trillions of dollars in public resources and political [...]