January 2008 - Posts

• NAACP Diversity Job Fair on January 21st

  CHICAGO — The Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday NAACP Diversity Job Fair is on January 21st, 2008 from 10AM to 3PM at the Navy Pier. The event is free and reaches out to all nationalities and ethnic groups. Candidates must be 18 years old or above, and... Posted Jan 17 2008, 12:58 PM by NAACP.org

• NAACP Speaks Out Against Teen's Murder

  "You know this was a good kid, a good kid who was doing things. He was in the algebra project, mentoring other children in how to do algebra and he was killed senselessly," said Doc Cheatham. http://wjz.com/local/zechariah.hallback.2.631279... Posted Jan 17 2008, 09:49 AM by NAACP.org

• NAACP Image Awards: The Show Must Go On

  The Writers Guild of America held a press conference yesterday to announce that it will sign an interim agreement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for The 39th NAACP Image Awards, which is set to take place Feb. 14 at... Posted Jan 17 2008, 09:43 AM by NAACP.org

• Guild to Let Writers Work on NAACP Image Awards

  LOS ANGELES -- The striking Hollywood writers guild says it will let its members work on next month's NAACP Image Awards. http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/la/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003696836 Read More... Posted Jan 16 2008, 09:39 AM by NAACP.org

• NAACP Intervenes In Lawsuit Seeking To Redistrict State

  RALEIGH, N.C. -- The NAACP is intervening as a defendant in a lawsuit it says aims to disenfranchise black voters. http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2008-01-15-0017.html Read More... Posted Jan 15 2008, 05:34 PM by NAACP.org

• Chester County NAACP asks feds to monitor elections

  CHESTER — The Chester County chapter of the NAACP has asked the U.S. Justice Department to monitor this month’s South Carolina presidential primaries in the county, citing concerns about the reliability of voting machines. http://www.heraldonline... Posted Jan 15 2008, 01:36 PM by NAACP.org

• NAACP continues support for Johnson

  WILSON, N.C. -- The NAACP held a rally Sunday night calling for the full exoneration of James Johnson. http://news14.com/content/headlines/591783/naacp-continues-support-for-johnson/Default.aspx Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 01:22 PM by NAACP.org

• NAACP official wants flag removed

  YORK, S.C. --The president of the Western York County NAACP chapter wants a flag that pays homage to the Confederate flag removed from in front of a downtown business. http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/445215.html Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 10:06 AM by NAACP.org

• Revitalized Middletown NAACP hosts MLK event

  Middletown – The revived Middletown Chapter of the NAACP, which began less than a year ago, can boast some 90 members. It hosted Celebration of the Life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday. http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/MLK_NAACP-14Jan08... Posted Jan 14 2008, 10:03 AM by NAACP.org

• NAACP Protests Bipartisan Pact On Commission Race

  The Cincinnati chapter of the NAACP wants to shake things up in local politics. Officials said they're so fed up with so-called backroom deals that they're asking members to abandon Democratic and Republican candidates in November’s election... Posted Jan 11 2008, 10:40 AM by NAACP.org

• Nominees for 39th NAACP Image Awards Announced

  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (January 8, 2008) -- The 39th NAACP Image Awards nominees were announced today during a press conference at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. The 39th NAACP Image Awards will air live on Thursday, February 14 (8:00 – 10:00 PM ET/PT Tape... Posted Jan 09 2008, 09:33 AM by NAACP.org

• District looks to close achievement gap

  CHAPEL HILL -- The NAACP and the International Ministerial Alliance say black students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School System are being treated unfairly in the school system and they want to know why. Parents and community leaders now say itâ... Posted Jan 08 2008, 10:29 AM by NAACP.org

• NAACP resists ruling on art

  The state conference of the NAACP has demanded that Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold rescind his refusal to display a mural depicting a black man breaking free from bondage on the exterior of the county government's headquarters in Annapolis... Posted Jan 08 2008, 09:47 AM by NAACP.org

• School Board votes to continue negotiations

  Members of the Jackson-Madison County School Board voted 6 to 2 during a called meeting tonight, with one member abstaining, to have their attorney continue negotiations with NAACP attorney Richard Fields to revise the 2000 desegregation agreement. http... Posted Jan 08 2008, 09:46 AM by NAACP.org

• Supreme Court to Hear Voter ID Challenge

  The NAACP had argued that Georgia's law recalled Jim Crow era poll taxes and placed an undue burden on minority and poor voters who could not afford the special identification card required by the law. http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/01... Posted Jan 07 2008, 01:21 PM by NAACP.org