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THE NAACP MOURNS THE PASSING OF CIVIL RIGHTS GIANT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO EMERITUS DR. BENJAMIN LAWSON HOOKS. Hooks was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1925. He graduated from Howard University in 1944 and then joined the army shortly thereafter where he earned the rank of staff sergeant. After completing his army duty, Dr. Hooks enrolled in DePaul University College of Law after no Tennessee law school would admit him. Upon receiving his law degree, Hooks returned to Memphis to practice law and he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1965 he became Tennessees first black criminal court judge and in 1972 Richard Nixon appointed him to be one of the five commissioners of the FCC. On November 6, 1976, the NAACP Board of Directors elected Hooks as Executive Director where he served until 1992. Dr. Hooks spoke at the NAACPs Centennial Convention in New York last July and left the NAACP with words to live by: Lets fight on until justice runs down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream. Lets fight on until there is no down-sizing, until there is no glass ceiling. Lets fight on until God shall gather the four winds of heaven; until the angel shall plant one foot on the sea and the other on dry land and declare that the time that has been will be no more. Fight on, until the lion shall lie down with the lamb. Fight on, until justice, righteousness, hopes equality and opportunity is the birthright of all Americans.
www.blacktree.tv The 2010 NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (motion picture, television, recording, and literature), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. The 41st Anuual Image Awards took place in Los Angeles CA and blacktree TV was there to catch all the stars! NOMINEES FOR 41st NAACP IMAGE AWARDS ANNOUNCED LIVE AT PRESS CONFERENCE BY TAYE DIGGS, MICHAEL STRAHAN, WANDA SYKES, KYLE MASSEY, CHRIS MASSEY, TATYANA ALI AND NAACP EXECUTIVES The 41st NAACP IMAGE AWARDS Airs Live Friday, February 26 On FOX BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (January 6, 2010) -- The 41st NAACP Image Awards nominees were announced today during a press conference at The SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills. Taye Diggs (Private Practice - ABC), Michael Strahan (Brothers - FOX) and FOX NFL Sunday), Wanda Sykes (The Wanda Sykes Show - FOX), Kyle Massey (That's So Raven, Cory in the House - Disney Channel), Chris Massey (Zoey 101 - Nickelodeon) and Tatyana Ali (Young and the Restless CBS) joined NAACP Image Awards Committee Chair, Clayola Brown, and Vicangelo Bulluck, Executive Producer of the telecast, to announce the categories and nominees. The 41st NAACP Image Awards will air live on Friday, February 26 (8 10:00 PM ET/PT Tape-Delayed) on FOX. This year, over 1200 entries were received. From those entries, a special committee of 300 industry professionals ...
Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! Some of our favorite ladies hit the recent NAACP Image Awards red carpet - and they didn't disappoint! Your style recap is next! Hello fashionistas. Joslyn Davis here for ClevverTV with the latest news from the red carpet. Many of Hollywood's most promising young stars hit the NAACP Image awards just days ago and style was dazzling. So here's the recap. First up is the always-beautiful Ashley Argota-who you all know and love from True Jackson, VP and from her appearances here on ClevverTV. For the big night, Ashley changed things up with a short dress with fun, full skirt. She played up the the asymmetrical dress with a side-swept hairdo and dark nail polish. A very cute, youthful, and of course fashionable look. Someone who we noticed looked really similar to Miss Ashley was Vampire Diaries actress Katarina Graham. She also looked amazing in a short black dress, and we really loved the lace top of the edgy look and the sleek hair style. But stealing the show on the red carpet was the job of two other starlets that night. It was a very close tie between Keke Palmer and Selena Gomez. Selena chose an exquisite white gown. She channeled her inner-Grecian-goddess in this look, complete with the loose, curly up-do, and lovely drop earrings. But we're thinking that the red carpet really belonged to Keke Palmer who won an Image Award that night. The bright yellow dress was a fantastic color choice, and also very appropriate ...
Photos: www.Belpoz.com - watch the video of Wyclef Jean, Tabou Combo, Carlos Santana , and Keri Hilson at eht NAACP Image Awards. Everyonone was Shaking it... I even spotted Morgan Freeman, Tyler Perry, and Mo'Nique getting down in the crowd to the sounds of Tabou Combo. Want ot know more about Haiti? Visit www.Fouye.net For Haiti Earthquake info visit: Earthquake.haiti911.com
Check out Behind The Scenes Footage from the NAACP Awards in Los Angeles. Featuring Keri Hilson, Tabou Combo and an exclusive guitar session with Clef jamming with Santana. Only on Clef Zone Media
From the NAACP Awards. You can download "Hear My Call" at NAACP.org. Proceeds are earmaked for the "NAACP for Haiti" Fund.
Nahunta, GA. Members of the Georgia KKK staged a protest to express their pro-white and anti-immigrant views in Southern Georgia. It is this fervent hatred and bigotry that hinders progress and positive reform that uplifts our nation's values. We can no longer be divided by the color of our skin or by our country of origin. Check out our blog here: trail2010.org
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...NAACP member and director of the nonprofit Tennessee Urban Resource Center in Clarksville, said voters need to be mindful of the NAACP's report card, "especially the ones from Montgomery County." He said some of the items used to evaluate Tennessee's delegation...
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...often under siege, Felmers Chaney. One of my first "In My Opinion" columns in the mid-1990s was about visiting Chaney in his NAACP office. He was smoking a foul cigar at his desk right under a sign that read "No Smoking." It was a symbol of the kind of arrogance...
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House majority Whip James E. Clyburn speaks at the opening program for the Library of Congress' Black History Month Celebration in recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP
Twitter.com - Follow Us! Great news for Selena Gomez and Keke Palmer-I'm Joslyn Davis for clevvertv with the latest on the Disney stars. Selena Gomez and Keke Palmer have both been nominated for NAACP Image Awards. The ladies are actually nominated in the same category, which is Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Program. Plus both of their shows, True Jackson, VP and Wizards of Waverly Place are also nominated for Outstanding Children's Program. To find out if either of these ladies take home the trophy, tune in to the NAACP Awards on February 26 on Fox. In the meantime, you can check out Keke's new song "Parachute." Have you heard it yet? If so, let us know what you think. And also let us know who your vote would go to for the NAACP Award! Thanks for watching clevvertv-make sure to head over to our site clevvertv.com for even more scoop. In Beverly Hills, I'm Joslyn Davis-see you later!
Julian Bond delivers the keynote address at the University of Virginia symposium marking the 100th anniverary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Bond is chairman of the NAACP and also professor of history at U.Va. The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia hosts the two-day symposium.
More at www.inlookout.com Julian Bond of the NAACP speaks at the National Equality March, introduced by Maxim Thorne. Part 1.
Watch how we hit the celebrities with a question that they are never asked on the RED CARPET. www.Christiansondemand.com
On Saturday, August 15, 2009, Pam Africa was invited to speak at the NAACP Pennsylvania state conference, and to address the PA chapters of the NAACP about further actions to support Mumia Abu Jamal, Troy Davis, and other political prisoners.
Executive Editor Margaret Mannix looks at Sonia Sotomayor's week in front of Senators, President Obama's return to the race issue and the Democratic charge ahead on healthcare reform.
Executive Editor Margaret Mannix looks at Sonia Sotomayor's week in front of Senators, President Obama's return to the race issue and the Democratic charge ahead on healthcare reform.
Obama speaks at NAACP. "We have to say to our children, `Yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that someone in a wealthy suburb does not,'" Obama said, returning to his tough-love message familiar from his two-year presidential campaign. "But that's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands and don't you forget that." Obama expanded his message of equal rights beyond the black communities. He said many Americans still face discrimination. Racism, he said, is felt "by African-American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a different color and gender. By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own country. By Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion for simply kneeling down to pray. By our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights." Obama also pressed for NAACP members to encourage their young people to find new role models beyond sports or music. "I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers," Obama said. "I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States." To bolster his argument that it's within their ...
President Obama addressing the NAACP on its 100th anniversary, stressing the importance of parenting and responsibility. "That means putting away the X-Box." He adds that "we need to go back to the day when parents saw somebody foolin' around - it wasn't your child, but... they'll whoop you anyway... Or at least they'll tell your parents..."
President Barack Obama addresses the 2009 NAACP Convention in New York, New York at the 2009 Freedom Fund/Spingarn Awards.
The emotional ending of President Obama's address to the NAACP on its 100th anniversary.
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...petition for certiorari of the Eleventh Circuit decision upholding Georgia's voter ID law. Hopefully, this is the ... Obama NAACP Speach: LIVE VIDEO www.huffingtonpost.com 11 hours ago — President Obama is speaking to the NAACP. Watch it live below. Visit...
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Ethan Nadelmann speaks at the annual NAACP Convention. The talk is on a panel called Smarter Strategies toward Safer Communities.
NEW YORK -- July 11, 2009. The NAACP opened their centennial convention -- held in the city where the association was born -- with a press conference. In a question and answer segment following the conference there was a moment of controversy: anti-war activists asked NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous why he had invited military recruiters to the convention job fair -- after the NAACP came out against the Iraq War.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley Honors 100th Anniversary of the NAACP, 5.14.09
Not to miss performances by three of music's best.
In celebration of the naacps centennial anniversary the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine have teamed up with Gibbs Smith, Publisher, on a visually stunning and groundbreaking new book chronicling the 100 years of the NAACP and The Crisis, NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures. The images are from the naacps own photo files and records. To commemorate the one hundred years of the oldest, largest, and most effective civil rights organization in the world, we are pleased to present you with this volume that is due out in February 1909.
In celebration of the NAACPs centennial anniversary the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine have teamed up with Gibbs Smith, Publisher, on a visually stunning and groundbreaking new book chronicling the 100 years of the NAACP and The Crisis, NAACP: Celebrating a Century, 100 Years in Pictures. The images are from the NAACPs own photo files and records. To commemorate the one hundred years of the oldest, largest, and most effective civil rights organization in the world, we are pleased to present you with this volume that is due out in February 1909.
Congressman Perriello salutes the NAACP on its 100th Anniversary
Highlights the contributions and efforts made by individuals from 1909 to the presidency to help in the Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas.
Highlights the contributions and efforts made by individuals from 1909 to the presidency to help in the Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas.
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... the best visual content, for the best publishers LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 12: Beyonce Knowles performs during the 40th NAACP Image Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on February 12, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images...
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Senators Chris Dodd, Roland Burris, and Hilary Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and VP for Advocacy held a press conference to recognize the 100th anniversary of the creation of the NAACP on Thursday. In January, Senator Dodd introduced a resolution celebrating the contributions that the NAACP has made throughout its history and recognizing its creation 100 years ago.
The second Niagara Movement meeting at Harpers Ferry in 1906 launched the NAACP. By Jim Surkamp.
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...less inclusive because of a failure to cultivate young minority stars and to bring minorities into decision-making positions, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said. The effect on the country could be profound, Jealous said. "This is America: So...
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SC NAACP Youth and College Division Chapters, as well as local branches take to the streets of South Carolina to encourage voter participation in the upcoming November elections. Produced by daydream Media Group for the Goose Creek Chapter of the NAACP.
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...and very active core of activists – both online and offline, said Nelson B. Rivers III, Chief of NAACP Field Operations. The NAACP is calling on all corporate, community partners, bloggers and individuals with web sites to download the widget onto their Web...
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African-American and Pro-life leaders gathered in Cincinnati, Ohio during the NAACP national conference in July 2008 to urge the organization, politicians, and everyone in America to take up the fight for the unborn in America.
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...the Confederate flag is at one of Columbia's most visited intersections, feelings remain raw over the issue. Last week, the NAACP said he remained focused on the issue and promised to target the state's multimillion-dollar movie-making industry. "I have no...
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Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America discusses abortion and the NAACP
Black leaders recently held a press conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The topic was the NAACP support for pro-abortion candidates and abortion, pre-natal murder, in general.
plusmccain at NAACP on Obama, educationmccain at NAACP on Obama, educationthe Associated presswhile addressing the NAACP, John mccain praised Democrat Barack Obama's historic campaign. The likely Republican nominee also told crowd he will give more help to students in failing schools. (July 16)This video contains ONLY natural sound. No script is available.
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...parties had large fields of presidential contenders. All eight of the Democrats then running for president accepted the NAACP invitation, including Obama. But only one of the 10 GOP candidates agreed to come. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado congressman running on...
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This is footage of Barack Obama leaving the NAACP convention in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 14, 2008. Filmed by Montgomery Maxton.
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