A Hamilton County Judge has issued a permanent injunction on the City of Cincinnati’s new parking plan. Judge Robert Winkler announced his decision, on Thursday morning, saying that the citizens of Cincinnati have the right to vote on the plan. According to the injunction, it states that city manager Milton Dohoney, and the City of […]
In an interview with David Gregory on Meet The Press, NAACP President Ben Jealous (pictured) said that Black Americans “are doing far worse” under the…
Imagine if you were from out of town, you check in to your hotel room, and you are welcomed with racial slurs? That’s what happened to Joseph Ross this weekend, when he was attending the Macy’s Music Festival this weekend. Ross, who is from Dayton, checked in to the Sharonville Motel 6 for the music […]
Seriously, why was Mitt Romney at the NAACP convention? He didn’t care about the audience and the audience didn’t really care about what he had to say until he reminded us that he could still exercise his privilege card. Read the story on Newsone.com
Governor Mitt Romney says he expected to get booed yesterday when he appeared before the NAACP Conference in Houston Texas yesterday. He said despite the strong objections, in his response to his pledge to repeal President Obama’s health care law, he’s ok with it. He admits that he expected the response, he said after his […]
One of the oldest and largest advocacy groups in the U.S. has weighed in on the contentious issue of same-sex marriage. The NAACP has passed a resolution endorsing gay marriage as a civil right. This comes, of course, almost two weeks after the President announced his support for same-sex marriage. The 103-year-old organization’s board members […]
When you call House Democrats carding-carrying members of the Communist Party you can probably expect some people might have an issue with the statements. Or maybe you just believe your own hype. Either way, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) was scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for his district chapter of the National Association for the Advancement […]
There is a new letter, supposedly sent by a Zimmerman family member addressed to Sanford’s local NAACP, that is being widely viewed on the internet. Yesterday, The Daily Caller released a letter of a Zimmerman family member, slamming local president Turner Clayton for rushing to judgement of George Zimmerman. In the letter, the member accuses […]
Is city council off to a bad start? According to Christopher Smitherman, he thinks so. The councilman, and NAACP chapter president, argues that the councils financial priorities are backwards. Since council was sworn in, they have debated over topics such as spending 4.4 million dollars to convert City Hall’s courtyard into a wedding atrium. Smitherman […]
Former House Speaker Speaker Newt Gingrich promised Thursday in New Hampshire if he is the GOP presidential nominee to go to the NAACP and “tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps,” as first reported by Slate. Another GOP candidate, ex-Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, sounded like he told Iowa Republicans […]
Long simmering tensions between Hamilton Police and the city’s minority residents boiled over at a Hamilton City Council meeting Wednesday night, with several dozen residents demanding more citizen control of police and an end to what they consider racial profiling by officers. Residents organized by local chapters of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership […]
The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise black and Latino voters ahead of next year’s presidential election. The organisation will this week present evidence to the UN high commissioner on human […]
