MSNBC: NAACP launches new push to safeguard voting rights
NAACP President Derrick Johnson discusses a new push to safeguard Americans’ voting rights.
Black News Channel: Republicans Pushing False Narratives to Gain Voters
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, joins Blow on “Prime” to discuss the narrative that Republicans are selling voters.
WTOP: NAACP releases coffee table book documenting 2020
From the pandemic to mass protests, 2020 will be a year long remembered — one the NAACP documented in a recent coffee table book, Twenty20 in Black. Aba Blankson is the chief marketing and communications officer for the NAACP. She said the book is based on the visuals of the year, although it does include several essays.There are several celebrities and people of note featured in the book, but she said, “It’s really about us, about everyday people having to get up and go to work and take care of their families in whatever way they could.”
PR Week:40 Under 40 2021 – Trovon Williams, NAACP
For more than a decade, Trovon Williams worked in sectors as varied as cybersecurity, satellite communications and higher education, all the while developing cutting-edge integrated marketing and PR programs that won multiple awards. He might seem like an unexpected choice for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP, but proved an inspired and energizing force since joining the organization in 2019 as VP, communications and now serving as SVP, marketing and communications.
Washington Informer:NAACP’s ‘COVID. KNOW MORE’ Research Shows Blacks Must Stay Vigilant and Informed
The most recent proprietary research commissioned by the NAACP reveals that although about half of the Black community in the U.S. has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and is optimistic about a return to normalcy soon, African Americans continue to over-index in the number of confirmed cases and hospitalizations, the most severe economic impacts and the number of deaths. And, with evidence of the deadly variant strains now showing a consistent rise – especially among vulnerable, less-vaccinated populations – their concern is more than justified.
The Atlantic:Remembering Bob Moses, Civil-Rights Leader
Ella Baker, a veteran NAACP organizer who helped create the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after the sit-ins, was working with Moses that summer. She understood his restlessness—which I also came to understand decades later, when I interviewed him for a book I was writing—and offered him a way to engage more directly with people instead of paper. Baker gave Moses a list of names of longtime NAACP organizers scattered across the Deep South, where the movement was less prevalent and more dangerous. In a time when belonging to the NAACP could get you evicted, fired, or even killed, the activists on that list held on to their membership.
Black Enterprise: Two Atlanta Police Officers Suspended After Video Kicking Black Woman in the Head Surfaces
Gerald Griggs, vice president of the Atlanta NAACP talked with Fox 5 Atlanta. “Shocked and angered,” said Griggs, “You know we’ve been talking about community-police relations for a long time in Atlanta. And to see something like that, a handcuffed individual kicked in the face, nothing justifies that. So, you know, the NAACP got involved, started investigating, reached out to the police chief, made contact with the family, and ultimately we’re trying to get to the bottom of what happened.”
The Hill:Atlanta officers relieved of duty after video shows handcuffed woman being kicked in head
Gerald Griggs, VP of the NAACP’s Atlanta chapter, told Fox affiliate WAGA that he was “shocked and angered” by the video, saying that the NAACP is already investigating this matter. “You know we’ve been talking about community-police relations for a long time in Atlanta,” Griggs told WAGA, “and to see something like that, a handcuffed individual kicked in the face, nothing justifies that.”
Baltimore Sun: Black leaders on ‘Freedom Bus Ride’ across Maryland’s Eastern Shore call for racial equality
Chants of “No Justice! No peace!” broke through the usual sounds of squawking sea gulls and chattering tourists on the boardwalk Monday. It was the final stop for about 100 Black Maryland political, clergy and regional NAACP representatives who crossed the Eastern Shore in a “Freedom Bus Ride” to protest systemic racism, from the Talbot Boys Confederate monument in Easton to recent police violence on the Ocean City boardwalk.
Black Information Network: Black Educators Excluded From Missouri Hearing About Critical Race Theory
After learning of the hearing, Missouri NAACP President Rod Chapel was infuriated. He said it was “ridiculous” to have a hearing about teaching race in school while “excluding the very people who are saying we’ve been treated inequitably.”
WBAL:Baltimore pulls out all the stops with COVID-19 vaccine clinics
The NAACP is calling on the business community to step up by posting signs and encouraging employees and customers to get vaccinated. “The majority of the Black community is not vaccinated, which means the majority of the Black community is susceptible, not only to infection, but to hospitalization and death from COVID,” said the Rev. Kobi Little, president of the Baltimore City branch of the NAACP. Health care professionals and researchers will take part in the NAACP’s town hall.
Fox 8:100 days: Activists to hold march, press conference on Andrew Brown Jr. Thursday
Activists are set to hold a commemorative march and press conference on Thursday to mark 100 days of protest since the death of Andrew Brown Jr. at the hands of Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office deputies. The press conference will include speeches from Minister Corine Mack of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg branch of the NAACP, Gerald D. Givens, Jr. of the Raleigh-Apex NAACP, Danielle Brown of the NC Black Voters Matter, a family member of Brown, and Keith Rivers of the Pasquotank County branch of the NAACP.
ABC 10:You can’t arrest the issues away’ | Greater Sacramento NAACP leader not surprised by police disparity report
Once stopped, the report says blacks were nearly 60% more likely to be searched than whites. Betty Williams, President of the Greater Sacramento NAACP, says she is not at all surprised. “We didn’t necessarily need a research person to do it. We could have told them and they could have saved some money,” Williams said. The report also says when it comes to simple “traffic stops,” Blacks were searched 2.7 times as often as white people. Latino people were 87% more likely to be searched than whites.