by Leroy Seat | Sep 25, 2018 | Opinion
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, born 150 years ago in February 1868, was the great-grandson of James Du Bois, a white plantation owner in the Bahamas. However, W.E.B. pronounced his name “doo-boyz” rather than with the French pronunciation. When he was only 20, Du...
by James L. Evans | Apr 12, 2010 | Opinion
In “Parting the Waters,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the early years of the civil rights movement, Taylor Branch describes some of the differences between Dr. Martin Luther King’s goals and those of the NAACP. King, following the teachings of...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jan 8, 2010 | Opinion
At the NAACP, our work in the global arena sometimes elicits the following kind of question: “With all the ills in the United States, why should we be involved in the problems in those countries?” There are at least three principle reasons you should...
by Bob Allen | Dec 12, 2005 | News
Religious leaders–including presidents of three large black Baptist conventions–have joined rappers, actors, politicians and grassroots organizers of hip-hop culture in seeking clemency for Stan “Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the notorious...
by Robert Parham | Jul 18, 2005 | Opinion
Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, missed an opportunity last week to push forward a new era in race relations with the admission that his party was wrong to use race as a wedge issue to win political elections. Had he ended with an...
