Labor arbitrators have ruled against the reinstatement of Rose Valentino, a former Cincinnati police officer who was fired for using a racial slur. Valentino was caught on her own body camera making derogatory comments while stuck in traffic near Western Hills University High School and […]
A McCalla, Alabama, white woman was charged with a disorderly conduct misdemeanor on Thursday, in relation to making racist death threats on social media against Black people in Tuscaloosa. Sydney Angela Holder, 20, allegedly posted a video that she’ll “shoot a n—– in Walmart,” according to a press […]
Kerry Washington is transforming herself into trailblazing Black women to celebrate Black History Month. The actor has re-created historic images of three women so far this month: supermodel Beverly Johnson, Olympian Wilma Rudolph and, most recently, civil rights icon Rosa Parks. She has been publishing them […]
Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the death of pioneering journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, one of the most famous and influential Black leaders of the late 19th and early 20th century. During her long career, Wells was instrumental in the fight against lynching, co-founded the NAACP and played an important […]
Taylor Simone Ledward Boseman accepted NAACP Image Awards on behalf of her late husband Chadwick Boseman. The actor posthumously earned two awards for his roles in “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. “As always, he would give all honor and glory to the […]
The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its official magazine, 110 years ago, in 1910. For almost two and a half decades, sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois served […]
This year’s recipient for the NAACP President’s Award is none other than Rihanna. The organization announced on Tuesday that the singer would be awarded the honor during the NAACP Image Award show, according to Pitchfork. The award, which is given “in recognition of special achievement and distinguished […]
January 3, 2020 Edit *R&B/Pop recording artist Tanya Nolan has landed as a 2020 contender for the NAACP Image Awards in the category of Best Music Video. Her campaign as a contender follows her successful releases of several original signature music videos in 2019 including her holiday release “Santa […]
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