The NAACP celebrates its centennial anniversary this year, but it is by no means sclerotic, nor on life support. In fact, the nation’s oldest and largest civil-rights organization is thriving, says
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1909. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York City on June 1. Notable founders include W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling and Os
Within the broad operations of the NAACP, two youth-oriented programs give African-American teenagers resourceful options to the “thug life” and other less-wholesome distractions. One is the organ
The lineage of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is as old as African-Americans’ fight for freedom and equality. Notable army organizations opposed to racism and discrim
Recently, when Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, delivered the commencement address at Virginia State University and when he later testified in support of the Uniting American Families Act before th
With the U.S. economy in recession and forecast to show only very modest growth in the near future, sponsorships and donations that normally bolster philanthropic organizations run by professional ath
Members of the 2009 class of TNJ’s “40 Under Forty Dynamic Achievers” can boast that their class — the twelfth in the history of the “TNJ 40 Under Forty” — comes in the first year of the
What is inflation? What is deflation? We’re hearing more about inflation and deflation these days. It’s as if the economy were balanced on a seesaw, tilting one way and then the other. But what ar
I sat at the large conference room table with William S. Parrish Jr., president and CEO of NobleStrategy L.L.C. With him were members of his dream team, one of whom was wearing a blue chambray shirt t
When Black Broadcasting Network launches this quarter, it will bring much-needed diversity to the cable broadcasting and programming industry.
The network’s founders, Ricky Anderson and Yusef Muhamm