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Remember the Titans

[...] we should not mistake the well-deserved prominence of trailblazers such as Hooks and Height as indication that Black political struggle is a top-down process. Successful activism is almost always organic and depends on signals and energy that are born in the streets and polished in the legislatures and boardrooms where passionate calls for change are negotiated into policy.

A Note From the Chair

There is still a great need to give voice to the issues that prevent too many of the members of "the darker races" the full enjoyment of all the rights, privileges and benefits of free and democratic societies both here and around the world.

Bringing Help to Those Without Healthcare

After the course, she was one of just 80 women chosen out of more than 3,000 applicants for Women Rule!, a joint project between O, Tlie Oprah Magazine and The White House Project, a nonprofit organization aimed at advancing women's leadership. Abdulai, other med students and Howard's Development Foundation, worked to secure funding including a $30,000 grant from the Association of American Medical Colleges and a $25,000 grant from the Gilead Foundation to expand HIV testing and education.

Attention!

King, a former varsity basketball player who continues to receive perfect scores on physical fitness tests, credits her mother and father, who passed away more than 10 years ago, for preparing her for the rigors of Army life. King has held a number of prestigious positions, including aide to the secretary of defense and a senior enlisted position at NATO headquarters in Europe.

[Q&a] Judge Glenda Hatchett

An Emory University law school graduate, Hatchett landed a clerkship with the U.S. federal courts before moving on to Delta Air Lines, where the Atlanta native soared as both senior attorney and public relations manager. With one book published Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say!, another forthcoming (Dare to Take Charge) and various awards and accolades, the single mom of two adult sons continues to reach her dreams. [...] ask your child what their dream is, write the response in big ...

Love Changes Things in Utah

A daughter of Haitian immigrants, Love says her political influences were found in her parents, who stressed the importance of service, her in-laws and her daughter Alessa, whom she wanted to grow up reciting the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, despite the efforts by some to remove them.

My Sister's Keeper

Returning home to Boston after a 2002 trip to Sudan, White-Hammond co-founded My Sister's Keeper, a diverse group of Christian women whose members cross racial boundaries with the goal of helping the women of Sudan help themselves. [...] they raised money for grinding mills for two villages to make the backbreaking work of milling grain faster and easier.

According to Reports

Widowed White women have a median wealth of $136,000 compared to $38,400 for widowed women of color. * During their retirement years, 38.5 percent of Black women who lived alone were poor compared with 16.7 percent of White women who lived alone.

Media Maven: Reaching People Where They Are

After graduating from the University of South Carolina, where she earned a bachelor's degree in banking, finance and economics in 1984, Clyburn took over the family business as the publisher and general manager of The Coastal Times, a Black newspaper in Charleston, S. C. She worked there 14 years before serving as a representative on South Carolina's Public Service Commission, which regulates the state's utilities and some transportation systems.

Black Female Writers Continue Literary Legacy

Educated at Yale and Boston universities, with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, Alexander also credits her studies with the Caribbean poet Derek Walcott. Since 1990, Alexander has published five books of poetry.

We Salute: Dorothy Height, Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement

Standing at the Crossroads

Nineteenth-century African American female activists, including Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell and Anna Julia Cooper, agitated for the inclusion of African American women's suffrage, to no avail. [...] later, when women earned the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment, large numbers of African American women remained restricted through literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and allWhite primaries. According to data from the Center for American Women an...

The Woman at the Wall

The African American community continues to face high unemployment and incarceration rates, educational and health disparities, and institutional racism and discrimination that keep many in a cycle of poverty and prison. Wlien you were grwing up , was there any singular incident or experience that helped shape who you are today? I think in terms of my social consciousness, when I was growing up in elementary school and junior high school, I was always writing reports about George Washington ...

The Richest Colored Girl in the World

A decade prior to statehood, Oklahoma had become the largest oil-producing region in the world with 40 million gallons being pumped each year. Because of her tribal affiliation with the Creek Nation, Rector gained her fortune by the luck of the draw when she received a 160acre plot of land through an allotment process known as the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.

The War Against Obesity

Tackling the country's obesity problem and the diseases that grow out of it (such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and cancer) demands an approach that will save all by ministering to the needs of those suffering most. [...] anyone who believes this oversize problem is too big to tackle should instead view it as one that's too big to fail. [...] public health campaigns can be successful. While the presence of physical education classes hasn't proved to have a significant impact on tri...

Freedom's Sisters

Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College These words introduce "Freedom's Sisters," an interactive traveling exhibit honoring the contributions of American Black women - abolitionists and feminists, thinkers and organizers - in the 19th and 20th centuries. Black men dominate the imagery surrounding the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for justice for Black Americans.

Always Ready and Willing to Fight the Good Fight

While I would have liked to have read more about the dynamics of that particular route to becoming African American, we do get a sense of how the immigrant experience, not to mention her father's devotion to Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association, help to shape her sense of self and her approach to political activism. [...] this is a book about politics: politics as a blood sport, politics as part of a social movement for justice and equity, politics as a passion.

Bold Scholar Untangles the Riddle of Race

According to Emerson, the Anglo-Saxon racial seed possessed a natural "instinct for liberty." The White man possesses a superior intelligence; White is a Protestant work ethic; White is blonde or Anglo-Saxon beauty, or handsome, Nordic men.

Naacp Image Awards Honor a Precious Film

Combined with the friendly girlfriend cat calls, high-five greetings of brotherhood and boisterous laughter, it all was a soundtrack of happiness and hope at the 41st NAACP Image Awards. The awards, held on Feb. 26, were hosted by Tony Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose and Image Award winner and best-selling author Hill Harper. Jealous noted how Jones became the "father of the green jobs movement" and how his best-selling book, The Green Collar Economy, helped provide "the definitive bl...

Tyler Perry: Playing by His Own Rules

Mentally, he's flashing back to early March, when he stepped out center stage at the 82nd Academy Awards, preparing to present the Oscar for Best Editing. What they do understand - and rightly so - is that Perry's work brings in big bucks for the entertainer (according to Forbes magazine, between June 2008 and June 2009, Perry earned $75 million, making him one of the top-paid men in Hollywood, and his films alone have grossed nearly $400 million), and the lucky studio (Lionsgate) and networ...

The 9th Wonder: Naacp's First Hip-Hop Ambassador

According to Vanessa Anderson, CEO and President of AM PR Group and 9th Wonder's publicist, the opportunity fell into his lap and he jumped on it. Enthusiastic about Ws new role within the NAACP, 9th Wonder is looking forward to bridging the generational gap with his passion for music and history.

Naacp's Yes We Count Campaign for Census 2010

Follow-up training led to recruiting organizers who could identify groups such as churches and labor unions that can aid volunteers in targeted census tracts. [...] community organizing based on electronic phone banking, text messaging, social networking applications and other Web 2.0 technologies are central to the campaign.

Naacp's New Online Presence

New features of the site include a blog, where branch and chapter leaders as well as NAACP staff can include information about important events in their areas that have national significance.

Naacp Hiv/Aids Campaign Targets Young Adults

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, of the nearly 25,000 new infections estimated to occur each year among African Americans, more than one-third (38 percent) are among young people age 13 to 29. All this can make them more vulnerable, and subject to engage in behaviors that can result in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.\n Arline, who is planning an intergenerational conversation about HIV/ AIDS to take place at the NAACP's 2010 national conv...

Naacp Takes On Payday Lending

The stores charge exorbitant interest rates for loans, and a missed payment could result in a bounced check or possible overdraft fees. The centers are three times more likely to be in a minority neighborhood than in a White community, says Keith Corbett, executive vice president of the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Naacp Lifetime Membership Program Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Often known as the lifeblood of the NAACP, the life membership program is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Since its inception, the program has been credited with sustaining the organization financially. The program didn't begin to see exponential growth, though, until 1953, when former NAACP president Kivie Kaplan was named chairman of the life membership committee.

Naacp Online Exhibit at the Library of Congress

The exhibition continues through "The Civil Rights Era," which includes photos of the attorneys for the historic Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 that made separate public school illegal and of Rosa Parks' arrest in 1956, as well as a 1957 letter from Daisy Bates to Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins regarding the treatment of the Little Rock Nine.