School board chairman in NC calls opponents 'animals,' fueling more debate over busing policy A racially charged debate over school busing in North ...
NAACP report finds TV networks lagging in diversity, warns of possible political actionNearly a decade after the NAACP condemned a "virtual whiteout" in ...
Push to put more felons on voter rolls could help Obama in historic presidential raceUndaunted by the heat, James Bailey spent his late-summer afternoons walking Virginia's bleakest neighborhoods on the hunt for ex-cons – each a potential voter who might cast the ...
Trooper Steve Garren was found not guilty of intentionally hitting a suspect on Friday. Since then, the state Department of Public Safety has started the reinstatement process. Sid Gaulden, spokesman for the agency says the process should take a matter of days. ...
NAACP targeting 750 precincts with lawyers to address voter registration problemsThe NAACP will have lawyers targeting 750 precincts around the nation on Election Day to help address complaints about possible voter disenfranchisement, the organization's new president said Saturday. ...
Area police departments yesterday found themselves defending some arrest practices that have resulted in allegations of abuse. In dramatic testimony at a news conference called by the state branch of the NAACP, victims of alleged police violence told how they were Tasered, ...
The US Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday while debating whether to invalidate key parts of the landmark Voting Rights Act protecting the rights of minorities at the ballot box.At issue is a provision of the law that requires the Justice Department to ...
Stamps set for civil rights leaders, Oregon, Alaska and poet Edgar A. PoeEvery year at meetings weary, experts ponder fame and theory, over many a quaint and curious request for honor on a stamp.Who should they pick for ...
A national voter-protection organization yesterday sued Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and other top Virginia election officials on behalf of the Virginia State Conference NAACP. The organization accused Virginia of an unconstitutional allocation of polling place resources in Richmond and several other urban ...
NAACP restarts court effort to reallocate voting machines in battleground VirginiaA day before voters head to polls in battleground Virginia, the NAACP will go to federal court to demand more voting machines in minority polling places.A hearing in ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says part of NAACP's new role is to help save Detroit's auto industryThe NAACP has fought for a century to bring equal and civil rights to blacks, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson believes the organization's current battle is ...
Governments eye public notices on the Internet, cutting out newspaper classifiedsThe tough economy means the growing suburb of Apex can't replace some computers and police vehicles. So the town's mayor is pleased to save $13,000 by posting public notices of rezoning requests ...
