NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could lose right to vote

Civil rights group petitions UN over ‘massive voter suppression’ after apparent effort to disenfranchise black and Hispanic people

Ed Pilkington The Guardian 5 December 2011

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 […]

Black Tea Partiers to Protest NAACP

Jenée Desmond-Harris The Root 7/22/2011

The Atlanta Post photo

 

The black-led South Central L.A. Tea Party (whose motto is “Power to the People”) is reportedly planning a protest against the NAACP at the organization’s 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles on July 24. The group is headed up by the Rev. Jesse […]

Ben Jealous?

BigFurHat iOwnTheWorld 9/30/2010

From Sad Hill

Organizing for America is sending out email notices to members asking that they travel to Washington to take part (in the One Nation Rally). The groups sponsoring the ‘One Nation Working Together‘ rally say they hope to replace the Tea Party’s ‘divisiveness’ with a message of unity that promotes […]

Shirley Sherrod, Andrew Breitbart: who is racist? Or not.

26 July 2010

CAJ note: There’s a lot of material out there about this story. We’ve decided to blog it together. Hence the awkward headline. After this maybe we’ll finally be able to get to the 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the Afghan war that have been released by Wikileaks this weekend.

This story began […]

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