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50th NAACP Image Awards: Here Are The Winners
By Kimberley Richards
Black Voices
The NAACP Image Awards celebrated 50 years of existence this year with the annual awards ceremony on Saturday.
The show was telecasted...
NAACP Celebrates 110th Anniversary of Freedom Fighting
By Stacy M. Brown
BlackPressUSA
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – NAACP – was founded 110 years ago after a deadly race...
Starbucks to close over 8,000 stores on Tuesday for anti-bias training
The Associated Press
Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is...
Photo Gallery: 2017 Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Awards
Times Staff Report
Photos by Stephonia Taylor McLinn
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) on Saturday hosted its combined 2017 Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award...
Thurgood Marshall movie faithful to the facts, and the man
By Jessica Gresko
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s widow, Cecilia, has seen two showings of the new movie “Marshall” about her...
NAACP names Derrick Johnson as new president, seeking to have more...
By Jesse J. Holland
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP turned to an insider Saturday to help bring the nation’s oldest civil rights organization...
A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning...
By Avis Thomas-Lester
The Hechinger ReportTrevion Williams (left) and Jashun Griffith (right), both 13, students at Crystal Springs Middle School in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, chat at...
Alabama NAACP applauds ruling that allows lawsuit on way judges elected...
Times Staff Report
The head of the Alabama NAACP lauded a recent federal court ruling that will allow a lawsuit to continue that challenges the...
Violence in Charlottesville: What Birmingham Mayor William Bell, Rep. Terri Sewell...
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Local political and civil rights leaders and members of Congress said they are disturbed by the violence that ensued during...
Metro Birmingham NAACP salutes outstanding women
Special to the Times
The Metro Birmingham National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recently held its 17th Annual Salute to Wonderful Outstanding...