“ Donald Trump is one of the single greatest threats to democracy in modern history. The hatred and misinformation the former president propagated has no place in America, let alone on a platform with billions of users.  We applaud the Facebook Oversi…

NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, released the following statement in response to the reckless killing of Daunte Wright: “Daunte Wright was shot and killed yesterday, just north of where George Floyd was suffocated less than a year ago. Both …

Courtesy of New River Brokerage via The Charlotte Observer It is our great pleasure to announce the  2 nd  annual ACT-SO Sustainable Building Competition  during the NAACP 112th Annual National Convention, hosted by the NAACP  Centering Equity in t…

An Illustrated Primer on the Fossil Fueled Industry’s Deceptive Tactics   BALTIMORE (April 1, 2021) – On April 1, 2019, the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program (ECJP) released “ Fossil Fueled Foolery: An Illustrated Primer on the Top 10…

Baltimore, MD—Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, issued the following statement on President Biden’s first announcement of nominees to the federal courts: “We are extremely pleased with many of this administration’s first judicial picks…

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The NAACP Georgia State Conference, alongside the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, GALEO Latino Community Development Fund, Common Cause, and the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe, are sui…

The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative—the foremost diverse coalition of national racial justice and civil rights organizations representing and serving more than 53 million people in the United States— condemn in the strongest terms the heinous murde…

Jazmine Sullivan and Maxwell set to perform during the live telecast airing on BET and Simulcast across viacomCBS networks Presenters announced for the televised and non-televised awards   BEVERLY HILLS, CA (March 11, 2021) – Today, the NAACP reve…

Wisdom Cole, Interim National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division, released the following statement after meeting with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona: “Today, we had an introductory meeting with Education Secreta…

For more information, contact  Margit Nahra at 240-605-8735 or Margit.Nahra@ u li.org.   WASHINGTON (March 4 , 2021) – The Urban Land Institute’s  (ULI)  Washington, D.C. District  Council  and the  National Association for the Advancement of Colore…

SPECIAL AWARDS INCLUDE DR. KIZZMEKIA CORBETT RECOGNIZED WITH THE KEY OF LIFE AWARD AND TONI VAZ RECOGNIZED WITH THE FOUNDERS AWARD BEVERLY HILLS, CA (March 4, 2021) – Today, the NAACP announced that Civil Rights Movement icon Rev. James Lawson will…

“Today, the world lost an influential figure in the fight for civil rights and American politics, Vernon Jordan. An icon to the world and a lifelong friend to the NAACP, his contribution to moving our society toward justice is unparalleled. In 2001, J…

Washington, D.C. — The President and CEO of the NAACP, Derrick Johnson, issued the following statement today regarding the second Impeachment of President Trump: “As white supremacists attacked our democracy last Wednesday, the NAACP called for the i…

President Trump’s social media accounts are a petri dish of disinformation, designed to divide and fuel violence at all costs. For the safety of the American people and the security of our democracy, Facebook is doing the right thing to indefinitely …

This afternoon, the NAACP released the following statement from NAACP President Derrick Johnson on the disruption of peaceful transition of power and calls for the impeachment of President Trump: “What we are witnessing at this moment is the manifest…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2021   Baltimore, MD –  This evening, the NAACP released the following statement from NAACP President Derrick Johnson on the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff election: “The stakes have never been higher as Black vot…

Washington, D.C. — The NAACP released the following statement regarding Kenosha county official’s decision not to charge Rusten Sheskey with the shooting of Jacob Blake: “Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley’s failure to bring substantia…

Source: theGrio and April Ryan Early voting continues in the state of Georgia for two U.S. Senate races as a cloud hangs over the state’s election process there. On Saturday, President  Donald Trump  allegedly committed voter and election crimes wit…

NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, released the following statement after President Trump pressured Georgia secretary of state to recalculate votes in his favor: “This is a racist attack on Black voters. President Trump’s desperate and futile …

December 21, 2020 – The NAACP sued President Trump, his presidential campaign, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for systematically trying to disenfranchise Black voters in states acros…