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The NAACP will conduct a listening tour as they seek to replace former President Cornell W. Brooks. (Courtesy photo)

Business, William Reed

BUSINESS EXCHANGE: NAACP Must Get Serious About Overhaul

by William Reed May 31, 2017October 30, 2020

Former NAACP President Ben Jealous formally announces his candidacy for Maryland governor in front of his cousin's floral business in Baltimore on May 31. (Travis Riddick/The Washington Informer)

Ben Jealous Formally Announces Candidacy for Md. Governor

by William J. Ford May 31, 2017October 30, 2020

The NAACP will conduct a listening tour as they seek to replace former President Cornell W. Brooks. (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience, National

NAACP Shake-up Needed, Observers Say

by Stacy M. Brown May 24, 2017October 30, 2020

Cornell Brooks

Black Experience, National

NAACP President Cornell Brooks Voted Out

by WI Guest Author May 23, 2017October 30, 2020

Margaret Johnson (left) and other members of the Richmond, Virginia, branch of the NAACP hold a gathering on May 19 in an effort to increase membership and announce plans to celebrate the branch's centennial anniversary. (Dorothy Rowley/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience

NAACP Announces New Direction to Grow Membership

by WI Guest Author May 22, 2017October 30, 2020

Rep. John Lewis (second from right), with activist Roy Wilkins of the NAACP (left), the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and labor leader A. Philip Randolph

Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Op-Ed, Opinion

CHAVIS: Sponsors of Hate Today Must Be Held Accountable

by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis April 12, 2017October 30, 2020

Hilary O. Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington Bureau, speaks during a March 24 breakfast held by the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) at the Dupont Circle Hotel in northwest D.C. during the celebration of the 190th anniversary of the Black Press to discuss implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

ESSA Experts Wary of Implementation

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff Writer March 29, 2017October 30, 2020

Civil, Human Rights Groups Go After Congress on ESSA

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff Writer March 22, 2017October 30, 2020

A member of Macedonia Baptist Church (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, Black History, Community

MoCo Church Loses Claim to Slave Burial Grounds

by Lauren M. Poteat March 1, 2017October 30, 2020

Rev. Dr. William Barber II (right), the president of the N.C. state branch of the NAACP, speaks at a Moral Mondays rally in 2013.

EDITORIAL: Have Historic Civil Rights Groups Lost Their Relevancy?

by WI Guest Author February 22, 2017October 30, 2020