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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.
The mission of the NAACP Youth & College Division shall be to inform youth of the problems affecting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities; to advance the economic, education, social and political status of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities and their harmonious cooperation with other peoples; to stimulate an appreciation of the African Diaspora 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."
The civil rights group is in turmoil, but candor and commitment can set it right to fight for rights.
The NAACP is launching original podcast series “Our Culture, Our Stories,” promising intimate and “unfiltered” conversations with an array of media and entertainment luminaries about ...
Money from the NAACP’s Building Community Voice Fund is intended to focus on voter outreach efforts related to local elections, such as those for school board, city council, sheriff and district ...
Du Bois and Walter White later disagreed about how best to gain civil rights for black people, but they shared a vision for the country. (See Atlanta Conference of Negro Problems .) After graduating in 1916, White took a position with the Standard Life Insurance Company, one of the new and most successful businesses started by black people in ...
Marvin Owens, Impact Shares Chief Engagement Officer, sits down with Yahoo Finance Live to talk about ESG investing that fits with the NAACP's goals and screening company values for the ETF.