Ambassador Andrew Young talks about the memories of civil rights leader and former NAACP chairman Julian Bond and his untimely death. “Julian was one of…

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News One reports that Civil Rights legend Julian Bond died last night in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to a statement released by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75 years old. “From his days as the co-founder and communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s to his chairmanship of the NAACP […]

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08/03/15 – Roland Martin talks to NAACP President Cornell Brooks about the America’s Journey for Justice March. Find more information here. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow…

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Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who masqueraded as a Black woman for years and was exposed last month, recently stated in an interview with Vanity Fair that she still believes she is a Black woman. Dolezal was fired from her job as Spokane’s NAACP president soon after the scandal broke, and was dropped by a […]

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In a week chock-full of events and political moves that highlight the need for criminal justice reform in the nation, President Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia…

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As Rachel Dolezal continues to defend her identity as a Black woman, the 37-year-old is leaving even more people puzzled, recently claiming she might not be…

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I’m so not surprised by this news… Dave Chappelle was the commencement speaker at his alma mater this weekend, the Duke Ellington School Of The Arts, where…

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And so the plot thickens. If anyone wondered why Rachel Dolezal’s family chose to out her as white last week, Dolezal suggests it is because…

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Dear Rachel Dolezar: Here’s why I’m not going to let you and the media distract me from all the important issues Black America is facing…

As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 this week, a new fight for voting rights…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Head Start and Yale Law School graduate, Cornell William Brooks calls himself a direct beneficiary of Brown v. Board Education.…

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Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP, has resigned in the midst of backlash over his relationship with L.A. Clippers owner…