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The NAACP is calling for a federal investigation into allegations a New London police officer planted drugs outside a suspect's house just before his arrest. The questionable conduct happened in October 2010 and was captured on tape by a camera inside a police cruiser. Lance Goode was arrested that night. He says the video shows Officer Roger Newton dropping drugs on the ground, looking around, and then kicking them underneath his car. "Someone we're supposed to trust, a police officer. His career was that important that my life, my family's life didn't mean nothing?" said Goode. Goode just filed a...

The Connecticut and New London branches of the NAACP are calling for a federal Justice Department investigation of a city police officer and questioning the firing of a black firefighter recruit. The state chapter announced the moves Friday. City resident Lance Goode filed a complaint with the state NAACP last week claiming Officer Roger Newton violated his rights by planting drugs on him just before his arrest. Goode gave the NAACP a video that he says shows Newton planting the drugs. Newton is on leave pending an internal investigation. The NAACP also questioned the firing of black firefighter recruit Al...

At the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday ceremony Friday at City Hall, the Rev. Talbert W. Swan II offered a brief history lesson for younger members of the audience. The causes championed by King five decades ago are the same ones civil rights activists are campaigning for today, said Swan, the new president of the Springfield’s NAACP chapter. “Jobs and justice,” Swan told the overflow crowd, including students from the city’s Martin Luther King Charter School of Excellence. “Just as in 1963, we find ourselves in the same predicament today, needing jobs and justice,” he said. Five decades after playing...

The Springfield branch of the NAACP has scheduled a public meeting Jan. 4 to discuss a recent comment by Easthampton city councilor Donald L. Cykowski that has been widely criticized as offensive to the Puerto Rican community. Cykowski has since apologized for his statement, which was made at a Dec. 7 council meeting, but calls for further action continue inside and outside Easthampton. Meanwhile, the outgoing president of the Easthampton City Council said he will file a resolution Tuesday reaffirming the council’s commitment to tolerance and against discrimination of any kind. Leaders from the Latino community met Wednesday morning with...

The Rev. Talbert W. Swan II, Springfield branch president of the NAACP, Friday called for an independent investigation of the shooting death of 18-year-old Tahiem Goffe. The teenager died of injuries inflicted by a gunshot wound in the wake of a Nov. 6 confrontation with police, who said Goffe was behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle when he attempted to run down an officer. “The Springfield Branch NAACP is requesting an independent investigation to ensure that proper police procedures were employed and that the investigation will not be compromised,” Swan said Friday. ... Goffe was shot by Springfield police...

Following the June 28 election that brought new officers into the fold, the Springfield branch of the NAACP is focusing its attention on five key areas to promote its agenda of equality. At a short press conference before the dedication of the New Macedonia Church of God in Christ, the Rev. Talbert W. Swan II, the newly elected president of the Springfield branch of the NAACP, said the group will be taking a renewed focus on education, health, economic empowerment, political action and social justice advocacy. Swan said the group will work with city school officials to reduce the dropout...

The Rev. Talbert W. Swan II, the newly elected president of the Springfield branch of the NAACP, said Thursday he anticipates a resurgence in the branch and expanded efforts to fight for improved education, health and social justice for communities of color. The election of Swan, pastor of the Spring Hope Church of God in Christ, was the first contested presidential election in more than a decade for the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Swan received 77 percent of the ballots cast to win over Charles Stokes, a community activist and former City...

Norwalk, Conn. (WTNH) - The Reverend Al Sharpton was in Norwalk Tuesday evening, showing support for a homeless woman charged with stealing her son's education. The message behind the rally was 'Equal Education For All'. Hundreds of people turned out to support Tayna McDowell, saying the charges against her are cruel and unusual punishment. They cheered for 'Equal Education For All', rallying for Tanya McDowell, who told the crowd she was only looking out for her son when she enrolled him in the Norwalk school system. "All I ask is the best education which is one of the best for...

Two school systems in Georgia will resume classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to make up for last week’s snow day, drawing much criticism from the NAACP. Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia State NAACP Chapter, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he is shocked that Fannin and Gilmer counties would “rise to this level of disrespect” to King. “The whole state of Georgia should be embarrassed, actually, by the action of both counties,” DuBose said. “You can’t help but to come to the conclusion that the population of his county is having some bearing on the leadership.”...

In a report released today entitled, Tea Party Nationalism, the NAACP falsely accuses Free Republic of being "an important space for...racist(sic)" and of having as a member the Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn.In falsely accusing Free Republic of being a haven for racists, the NAACP report notes Free Republic's front page promotes the Tea Party Express. However, the report fails to note the front page also includes several statements warning that racism and violence are not welcome on Free Republic:"Please enjoy our forum, but also please remember to use common courtesy when posting and refrain from posting personal attacks,...

A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out "racism" and "extremism" among Tea Partiers. Teapartytracker.org will feature tweets, interviews with people at rallies, blog entries and a picture of a t-shirt they say someone spotted at a rally that reads "Blacks own slaves in Mauitania, Sudan, Niger & Haiti." The site, sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America, will monitor "racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement. We call on the Tea Party to repudiate extremists among...

As the controversy surrounding the video of former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod begins to dissipate with the revelation that her seemingly-racist statements, made at an NAACP banquet, were taken out-of-context, a new controversy is emerging involving the NAACP and the issue of racism. And it involves an organization that has been very prominent in the news lately – the New Black Panther Party. On May 3rd, in Atlanta, the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) held its 2010 National Black Power Convention, which brought together an odd assortment of racists, black separatists, and mainstream figures from the worlds of politics and...

Almost from the moment Barack Obama declared he would run for president in 2007, our enraptured media elite has been accusing anyone who would stand in Obama's way with racism. The question was never whether Obama was ready to govern the country, but whether the country was ready for the historic awesomeness of Obama. Pity the NAACP. We now have a black president, and they must convince (racist) America that there still exists the need for a national association to advance "colored people" in our society. How to do it? Identify and condemn as "racists" anyone or any group opposed...

A seismic shift in American politics has occurred over the past decade that has created a gap so wide and so bitter that America is a nation of growing polarization where issues once embraced by both sides are now being challenged. In the shift, the far right has embraced Israel as a means of separating itself from Democrats, causing many Americans to question what, until then, has been unquestioned loyalty. Although Israelis have always enjoyed support from both mainstream political parties, the extremists in America who are using support of Israel as a litmus test are forcing many to examine...

Click here to find out more! The NAACP’s intemperate denunciation of the Tea Party movement presents Barack Obama with a stunning and powerful opportunity; the fact that the president has so far refused to seize it reveals the sad limitations of his leadership. Outsourcing this task to Vice President Biden (who denied the racist charges and said the president agreed with him during a weekend interview on ABC News) hardly makes up for the presidential silence. However much mainstream media figures may admire the Veep, he lacks two crucial qualifications that Barack Obama would bring to any Tea Party defense:...

The NAACP approved a resolution recently condemning the Tea Party's fringe element of their movement for "explicitly racist behavior." It would require a flow chart the likes of which have not been seen since the days of health reform to explain all of the ways this is wrong. For starters, the mere act of criticizing a black president is not racist. Nor is it racist to raise the public consciousness to the very important issues of spiraling debt, misguided bailouts, and a series of social policies that may bankrupt the country. Our nation benefits from uninhibited discussion about these serious...

Breitbart reiterates the first video released on Breitbart.tv features Sherrod telling a racist tale that is received by the NAACP audience with laughter and cheers. The audience wasn’t cheering redemption; they were cheering discrimination. Breitbart clarifies he released the video to target not Sherrod, but the NAACP who had condemned the Tea Party's alleged racism. Though Sherrod became the scapegoat, it was the delight the NAACP audience took in the racist part of Sherrod's speech that was truly damning. Breitbart noted he’s agnostic to her firing. Later on the Breitbart.tv Publisher argued bogus racism charges flung at the Tea Party...

Another example of the NAACP's tolerance of racial and bigoted remarks.

I cannot believe this, that Shirley Sherrod, whom in a video that showed she "admitted" in the video that she discriminated against a farmer because he is white. This took place at a NAACP event, March of 2010. This video SHOWS THE NEED for the NAACP to PRACTICE what it preaches and and not become like folks who live in "glass houses" when it comes to the heated issue of "racism". This also includes to what happened back on November of 2008 when the New Black Panthers blocked the front entrance to the polling place in Philadelphia.

Sherrod, 62, insisted her statements in the video were not racist. "For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done, and know it’s not the truth … it’s very upsetting," she said. ............. The AJC is trying to recover the full video footage of Sherrod's speech to the Douglas NAACP. She said the circumstances made it absurd for her to have made any racist comment. "There were some white people there. The mayor (of Douglas) was there," Sherrod recalled. "Why would I do something racist if they were there?"

Despite all the attention given to last week's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's resolution against the Tea Party, all three broadcast evening news programs completely ignored Monday's revelations of racist comments made at one of the civil rights organization's meetings in March.

Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy -- video that now has forced the official to resign. (snip) The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned. More at link.

(BALTIMORE, MD) NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous issued the following statement today after learning of the resignation of Shirley Sherrod of the United States Department of Agriculture: “Since our founding in 1909, the NAACP has been a multi-racial, multi-faith organization that-- while generally rooted in African American communities-- fights to end racial discrimination against all Americans. We concur with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet. Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her...

See link...I know this has already been posted, but I decided to see who in the media has picked up the story. I am shocked that WCBS in NY, no stations in Atlanta that I can find, has this story.

Here’s a tip for my friends in the NAACP: Next time you vote on a resolution denouncing racism, don’t let the Rev. Jeremiah Wright count the votes. I’m kidding, of course. Wright - the openly racist, anti-Semitic conspiracy kook - hasn’t spoken at an NAACP meeting in months. No, they asked Louis Farrakhan instead. Another joke - really. Oh sure, Minister Mother Ship has been an invited guest at NAACP events in the past. But he’s been pushed aside to make room for more moderate voices. Like Al Sharpton. You may recall some of Rev. Al’s more memorable speeches like...

The NAACP passed a resolution condemning the Tea Party for its "racist elements." The NAACP decided to yell racism in the tense theater of American politics yesterday by passing a resolution condemning the Tea Party as "a threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all" because of "the racist elements" within it. Drafters of the statement cite as evidence allegations made by Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana and a couple of other members of the House Black Caucus that attendees hurled racial slurs and epithets at them during a Tea Party rally in Washington last March....

Some African-American tea party candidates are displeased by a resolution that the NAACP approved on Tuesday calling the grass-roots conservative movement “racist.” “I have not experienced the charges of racism that the NAACP is touting,” Vernon Parker, an African-American tea party congressional candidate in Arizona, told POLITICO. Parker, former mayor of Paradise Valley, said that he has never felt out of place at a tea party rally because of the color of his skin. “When I go to tea party events, people don’t look at me any differently,” he said. “They didn’t judge me on the color of my skin,...

The NAACP will not release the actual text of its resolution condemning "racist elements" within the Tea Party movement until October, when the organization's board gives it final approval, a spokesman for the group has told me. Though the final version has not surfaced, I reported on some excerpts from the preliminary draft of the resolution yesterday, which I was able to record before a live webcast broadcasting the NAACP conference was cut off. Among other things, an early draft called Tea Party movement, a "threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all." In a blog...

A Powerful Quote… Posted on July 14, 2010 by billrandles Here is a quote that describes the koolAid drinkers at the NAACP- who slander good people for their own personal gain- When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A...

The NAACP has passed a resolution that condemns what it feels is rampant racism in the Tea Party movement. Members passed the measure on Tuesday at the organization's 101st annual convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Tea Party activists have swiftly denounced the action as unfounded and unfair.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) posted a threatening warning on Twitter yesterday adressed to millions of Tea Party activists as news broke of statements by the NAACP accusing the Tea Party of being a racist group led by "hardcore white supremacists."Msg to Tea Party: We will not allow u to send bigots into the Capitol, call civil rts heroes epithets & act like you didnt send em #NAACP101 about 16 hours ago via twidroidThe NAACP is holding its 101st anniversary convention in Kansas City this week. A resolution falsely accusing the Tea Party of being...

Late this afternoon the NAACP passed a resolution calling on all people — including tea party leaders — to condemn racism within the tea party movement. Passed on the fourth day of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual convention in Kansas City, the resolution also urged people to oppose what it said was the tea party’s drive “to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”

BROCK: The NAACP is not just a civil rights organization. RUSH: Bingo. BROCK: It is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization in this nation charged with the responsibility to ensure equal opportunity and access for all Americans. RUSH: Hmm. BROCK: And when we speak about people of color, we're really speaking to the issues of Americans who feel that they've been locked out of a prosperous society. RUSH: Bingo! BROCK: We are a multicultural, multiracial organization, and we are intending, or want to as we enter the first year of our second centennial to cast a broader net...

The NAACP is out with its annual report card, and Republicans have been awarded Fs virtually across the board, thanks to their position on a variety of civil rights issues, most notably their killing of the D.C. voting rights bill.

Here is video of an NAACP representative on Fox News today where he defended Sen. Harry Reid as a "champion for Civil Rights." This despite comments by Reid were revealed in a new book where he said Barack Obama could be accepted by the American people because he is "light-skinned" and because he has "no Negro Dialect" unless he wants to have one. Reid made the remarks privately during the 2008 Campaign. The NAACP Rep. said that Reid's words were "awkward, but not "offensive." "The way he said it was quite awkward, but nonetheless, not offensive. That what he said...

I recently had the opportunity to work the week-long 100th NAACP convention in New York City. My responsibilities allowed me access to a number of invite-only events, talks, parties, etc... Oh, and by the way, I’m white. Very White. Just a few observations: This is an old organization. The members are old and getting older. There just aren’t many young members that were readily apparent. And you’d figure they would want to come to NYC for something of this magnitude. And the young people I have seen are totally out of touch with the older members. They seem to avoid...

HAMTRAMCK - Residents and civil rights advocates are appalled that Asm Kamal Rahman, a leading voice in the successful ballot initiative to overturn a local anti-discrimination ordinance last year, is now sitting on the boards of civil rights groups in southeast Michigan.

NAACP Continues its Support of Special Advisor of Green Jobs Van Jones and the White House Green Jobs Initiative. The NAACP is calling for civility in the national discourse on safe, clean communities and sustainable sources of domestic energy. It is time to end the personal attacks on administration officials as a distraction to crucial discussion on our nation and our world's environmental conditions. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous: “It is sad and unfortunate that our nation's precious airwaves and cable television time are being occupied with the unscrupulous, diversionary tactics launched by right wing extremists such as...

WASHINGTON DC – The NAACP announced today, unwavering support for Tom Perez for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. In a letter to the United States Senate, the NAACP urged the Senate to confirm Perez expeditiously. “The NAACP strongly urges the United States Senate to confirm Tom Perez for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. His breadth and depth of experience on the local, state and federal level make him the best candidate to work with Attorney General Eric Holder to rebuild the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice,” stated Hilary O. Shelton, Senior Vice President for...

On the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Governor Charlie Crist today called on Adora Obi Nweze of Miami to serve as Special Advisor to the Governor on Minority Affairs. Nweze will serve as a representative for the state’s minorities by advising Governor Crist on strategies that will ensure Florida’s government is accessible to these populations. She will continue as president of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP. The Governor's appointment of Nweze is believed to be the first state partnership with the NAACP through an official appointment in...

WASHINGTON - Julian Bond has condemned the war in Iraq and administration policy on education and the economy, yet the NAACP’s chairman is urging President Bush to attend the civil rights group’s annual convention. “We are eminently hopeful that the president will come,” said Bond, whose speech Sunday evening helps kick off this week’s conference. Bush has avoided the conventions since taking office in 2001. His schedule for Wednesday lists an event with the notation “TBA,” or to be announced.

Wednesday -- April 5, 2006RACIST HOUSE SPENDING RULES SNAG MCKINNEY Perhaps you didn't know it, but using taxpayer funds for political fundraising is against the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. It now seems that Cynthia McKinney took $1000 from her congressional office budget to fly Isaac Hayes to her district last year. He was there to be the headliner at a political fundraiser for McKinney.  Cynthia McKinney has broken the law.  Now it looks like McKinney is going to have to pay that money back somehow.  Obviously, this rule is racist.  It was put in place to nothing...

NASHVILLE - An NAACP official on Friday urged Tennessee Republicans to censure Knoxville's state Rep. Stacey Campfield and demand his resignation as a lawmaker because he compared the Legislature's Black Caucus to the Ku Klux Klan. Campfield, a white Republican legislator who has found himself a subject of national attention after being told he cannot join the Black Caucus, said his remarks have been misinterpreted and that he sees no reason to resign. The latest round began with a letter sent to state Republican Chairman Bob Davis by Nashville NAACP President Arnett H. Bodenhamer, declaring that his organization is "incensed"...

MILWAUKEE - (KRT) - NAACP Chairman Julian Bond bashed President Bush and other conservatives Sunday, warning they have tried to seduce black clergy, created ``fraudulent'' civil rights organizations and backed federal judicial nominees who come from a ``dim and gloomy legal netherworld where few Americans wish to dwell.'' Officially kicking off the NAACP's 96th annual convention, its first in Milwaukee, a fiery Bond told delegates they have won great accomplishments but must continue to fight widespread discrimination

Bond comes out swinging at Bush He denounces president in speech By TOM KERTSCHER tkertscher@journalsentinel.com Posted: July 10, 2005 NAACP Chairman Julian Bond bashed President Bush and other conservatives Sunday, warning they have tried to seduce black clergy, created "fraudulent" civil rights organizations and backed federal judicial nominees who come from a "dim and gloomy legal netherworld where few Americans wish to dwell." "We have never wished our way to freedom, instead we've always worked our way," he said in a 50-minute keynote address at the Midwest Airlines Center. Bond opened with an attack, saying, "Milwaukee is the home of...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.(AP) _ If Crystal Hunt and Marquita Jackson were looking to draw attention, they succeeded. Wolf whistles and honking horns followed the bikini-clad duo as they strutted down Ocean Boulevard. Hunt was wearing a red-white-and-blue Confederate battle flag wrap over her white two-piece, Jackson a bra bearing the familiar diagonal blue cross and white stars co-opted by the Ku Klux Klan. You could say the two black women were thumbing their noses at the NAACP's 5-year-old boycott of South Carolina except for one thing: Neither of the 21-year-old North Carolina women had any idea there even was a...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People started the boycott in 2000 to get the Confederate battle flag off the South Carolina statehouse dome. That goal was achieved in July of that year, but the organization continued the sanctions when the flag was moved to a memorial on the statehouse grounds - a place of honor the group feels the flag doesn't deserve. But judging from the columns of black motorcyclists zooming up and down the Grand Strand during the recent "Black Bike Week," few are heeding the call. "I spend my money wherever I want to," Jackson,...

Is this the New Racism? Black woman civil rights lawyer in the tradition of a Fanny Lou Hamer, runs for DA in 2001 against white male incumbent, amidst charges of corruption from the political machine, which spawned him. Her banner- Justice not Politics. Media Ignores Her. Incumbent’s agent vows to crush her. He levels an unprecedented colossal election battle against her and supporters, a mosaic, mostly people of color. Supporters are harassed all hours of the night by his agents. An extraordinary 150 people are subpoenaed including her father who had been dead 13 years. Media Ignores Her. She is...

The setting reads like an ad for a deluxe Memorial Day Weekend getaway: Rounds of golf at a choice of four championship courses. Seaweed wraps and aromatherapy facials at the resort's top-notch spa. And hours of lounging on sun-soaked Florida beaches. While a vacation escape is the lure, the goal is to talk civil rights business and reinvigorate the aging membership of the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Hoping to entice post-civil rights era black professionals to the aging National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the organization is trying something new: blending old-fashioned social activism with the leisure...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blacks lag far behind whites in economic status, health and education and are in danger of "a great backslide" from the gains made since the civil rights movement began, the National Urban League said on Wednesday. "This year ... almost every indicator available shows that progress for black America is stalling or falling," said Marc Morial, the league's president, at a briefing to release the group's annual Equality Index. The index found the overall status of blacks in the United States stayed at 73 percent of the status their white counterparts have, virtually unchanged from the 2004...