Rep. Maxine Waters Takes Strong Stand for Fair Housing at HUD- New Legislation Would Restore Revoked Protections and Rules
Month: July 2018
ACLU Veteran Laura Murphy leads Facebook’s Discrimination Audit
NAACP, the nation’s foremost civil rights organization, issued the following statement regarding the announced retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The City of Margate’s Finance Department has received the Government Finance Officers Association’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for FY 2018.
Vox reports that former NAACP president Ben Jealous is breaking new political ground in Maryland. Following the primary, Jealous won the Democratic nomination against Prince George’s County official Rushern Baker, giving him the chance to be the first Black governor in the state’s history as well as the third African-American to be a governor, period. What’s shocking is that this marks Jealous’s first time as a political candidate, but he beat out several more experienced names from a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and a Maryland state senator.
Pressed on Every Side…But Not Defeated
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) recently hosted its second National Black Parents’ Town Hall Meeting on Educational Excellence at the Gethsemane Community Fellowship Church in Norfolk, Va.
President Trump Scraps visit with NFL Super Bowl Winners
A federal appeals court today ruled that the at-large electoral process used by Missouri’s Ferguson-Florissant School District violates the Voting Rights Act. The American Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Missouri NAACP and several African American parents andresidents.