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Asian American Pacific Islander

Former Obama Official Helps to Expand the Civil Rights Agenda

Vanita Gupta is the new president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, taking over the mantle from Wade Henderson, who retired this year after leading the organization for more than two decades.

August 9, 2017

African-American

NAACP President to Leave Office as Group Undertakes Changes

WASHINGTON — NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization after his contract expires this summer, officials said Friday. Brooks has been the NAACP’s leader since 2014 but will not be kept on past June 30, the end of his current term. NAACP Board […]

May 21, 2017

Students

Rights Activists: Fight Just Getting Started

Speakers said that mobilizing for protests and marches is critical, but sustained activism would be necessary for effecting actual change.

January 22, 2017

African-American

Civil Rights Stalwart Jack Greenberg Dies

Jack Greenberg, the last surviving lawyer of the Thurgood Marshall-led team that argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, died Wednesday at age 91.

October 13, 2016

African-American

Race Amity Over Enmity Focus of Recent Conference

Expert says, although history books and contemporary media are replete with accounts of enmity between the races, there is a long history of race amity that has not received the same level of attention.

November 29, 2015

African-American

NAACP’s Leader Seeks to Tap into Energy of Youth

Cornell William Brooks is helming the civil rights organization at a time when the group is grappling with how to connect to younger activists while maintaining its historic mission.

September 16, 2015

African-American

Julian Bond, Giant of Activism and Education, Dies

If anyone knew the importance of a college education, it was Julian Bond.

August 16, 2015

Faculty & Staff

NAACP Growing Youth Numbers

Despite criticism that the NAACP has not done enough to bring more youth into the organization, the NAACP has seen its youth numbers increase in the wake of the recent deaths of unarmed Black men.

July 12, 2015

MSIs

Dolezal Sued HBCU For Racial Discrimination

The Spokane, Washington woman who has caused a firestorm of conversation about the ideas of “transracial” and “Wrong skin” identities resigned Monday from her post as the city’s NAACP president.

June 15, 2015