Topic - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• 'The Help' leads NAACP Image Award nominees

  "The Help" has been served eight Image Award nominations.

• 

  City State: Morning Roundup

  Md. assembly session likely busy, defining for O'Malley; Metro proposes fare increases; D.C. eliminating free handicap parking; Md. assembly again will address death penalty issue; O'Malley to propose record school construction spending; McDonnell wants school to start before Labor Day; McDonnell urges Bolling, Cuccinelli to talk; No absentee ballots until judge rules on Perry suit.

• 

  Maryland's death penalty comes under fire

  A Maryland delegate will push to abolish the state's death penalty during the upcoming General Assembly, and the NAACP is expected to throw its support behind the proposal Tuesday.

• 

  KUHNER: Will Obama steal the 2012 election?

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. claims Jim Crow is returning. In a recent speech, Mr. Holder said that attempts by states to pass voter identification laws will disenfranchise minorities, rolling back the clock to the evil days of segregation. He said that a growing number of minorities fear that "the same disparities, divisions and problems" now afflict America as they did in 1965 prior to the Voting Rights Act. According to the Obama administration, our democracy is being threatened by racist Republicans. Hence, the Justice Department must prevent laws requiring a photo ID to vote from being enacted.

• 

  Inside the Beltway

  In less than half an hour, Michael Savage's hair-raising proposal drew close to 7,000 mentions on Google News: The syndicated radio host declared presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich "unelectable" Monday afternoon and offered him $1 million to drop out of the White House race.

• 

  SPAKOVSKY: Voter ID is a good idea after all

  Do laws that require citizens to present valid identification to vote create an undue hardship? Worse, are they racist? Artur Davis used to think so. He represented Alabama's 7th Congressional District from 2003 to 2011 and was an active member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He vigorously opposed voter ID laws.

• 

  Perry opposes design of Confederate license plate

  After declining for months to tip his hand, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, under pressure from state civil-rights leaders, said Wednesday he opposes a proposed state license plate depicting the Confederate battle flag.

• 

  Black leaders fear Maryland redistricting may dilute influence

  Black leaders in Maryland are worried that a recommended congressional map expected to increase Democratic dominance of state politics could also reduce the influence held by black voters.

• 

  Troy Davis mourned as a martyr by 1,000 in Ga.

  Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as "martyr and foot soldier" Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funeral and pledged to keep fighting the death penalty.

• 

  Execution nears for Ga. inmate Troy Davis; protests worldwide

  Troy Davis supporters in the U.S. and Europe were trying just about anything to spare him from lethal injection that was just hours away Wednesday for killing an off-duty Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

• 

  Inside the Beltway

  Though hubbub over President Obama's birth certificate ultimately became a Democratic fundraising tool, the "birther" factor won't die, insists Republican presidential hopeful Andy Martin.

• 

  Troy Davis denied clemency 1 day before execution

  Georgia's board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from death row inmate Troy Davis on Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including an ex-president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.

• 

  SIMMONS: Separate-but-equal schools argument reborn

  Separate but unequal. That was the legal theory the NAACP successfully used to bat down public school segregation.

• 

  GOP's Kittleman all alone supporting gay marriage

  Maryland Sen. Allan H. Kittleman has spent seven years honing his reputation as a fiscal conservative and Republican leader in the General Assembly, but he made waves this year by standing apart from party colleagues on one of the state's most controversial social issues — same-sex marriage.

• 

  Philadelphia mayor talks tough to black teenagers after 'flash mobs'

  Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths "you have damaged your own race," imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest "flash mob" — spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city's tourist and fashionable shopping districts.

More Stories →