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LeBron James Teams With NAACP To Recruit Poll Workers For Election

Poll workers will be placed in Black electoral districts.
08/26/2020

Leaders Call for Investigations of Pattern of Police Violence Against Unarmed Blacks

Michael Brown's death is just the latest example, they say.
08/15/2014
Wade Henderson

Leaders Rally for Voting Rights for Today

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School Desegregation

Black Leaders Commemorate Brown v. Board of Education at 60

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The Nays Have It: Senate Rejects Obama Pick for Top Civil Rights Post

Debo Adegbile had been with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
03/05/2014
Sherrilyn Ifill

New Leader Sets a New Tone for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Sherrilyn Ifill is now a national civil rights figure.
01/28/2013
Morehouse to Introduce Black LGBT Course

Top Education Stories Affecting African-Americans in 2012

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NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Discrimination in NYC's Elite High Schools

The organization claims admissions are racially biased.
10/09/2012
NAACP Goes After NYC's Elite Schools

NAACP Attacks NYC High Schools Over Discrimination

Minorities make up 7 percent of specialized high schools.
09/27/2012

This Day in Black History: June 6, 1939

Children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman was born.
06/06/2012

John Payton’s Life as a Civil Rights Champion and Mentor

Payton was a champion of the marginalized in America.
03/27/2012