NAACP

The NAACP is urging Black student-athletes to think twice about attending public colleges and universities in Florida in response to the state’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

The NAACP is proud to announce attorney Tanisha M. Sullivan as president of its New England Area Conference (NEAC).

The nation’s oldest civil rights organization marked a milestone as the NAACP turned 115 this month.

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Sometimes, all it takes is someone without any quit in them to get things done. Ruth Batson was one of those people.

Besides civil rights and civic engagement, the national NAACP convention had on its agenda environmental justice and artificial intelligence, which were featured in topical sessions and draft resolutions presented to delegates.

As participants descended on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the NAACP’s national convention, delegates and leaders saw the gathering as a needed chance to push back against white supremacy and conservative policies that they said pose a threat to Black communities.

The NAACP is expected to pass a resolution during its convention that begins this week on educating more Black women about the link between hair relaxers and uterine cancer.

The NAACP came to Roxbury to give a preview of its upcoming national convention in Boston next month.

Hazel N. Dukes, for decades a leading figure in the NAACP, will be awarded its highest honor at its national convention in Boston next month, the civil rights organization has announced.

Fifteen years ago this month, renowned civil rights attorney Thomas Irving Atkins lost a 15-year battle to Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He had spent his entire life relentlessly fighting for racial equality and against racial discrimination, expanding his crusade beyond Boston as special counsel and general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in its New York national office.