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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
Negro Universities Press (NUP) was an American publishing house that "published many reprints and original works related to the Black experience." [1] Per the company's 1969 catalog, NUP was an incorporated company that was designed to behave as a university press for the historically black colleges and universities of the United States, and "to publish original books written by scholars and ...
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students."
Former Vice President Kamala Harris gave a rousing speech at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California, where she accepted the organization’s ...
The NAACP is calling on Black consumers to direct their nearly $2 trillion in buying power toward companies that have kept their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
“The Six Triple Eight” scored the outstanding motion picture prize at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night. The Netflix war drama film — based on the true story of an all-Black, all ...
The 56th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2024 calendar year.
The suggestion to name the magazine after the poem came from one of the NAACP co-founders and noted white abolitionist Mary White Ovington. The first issue was typed and arranged by NAACP secretary Richetta Randolph Wallace. [3] As the founding editor of The Crisis, Du Bois proclaimed his intentions in his first editorial: