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The NAACP, the oldest civil rights organization in the country, is urging black Americans to avoid businesses ditching diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. “Attention, corporations: if you want our dollars, it’s time to do the right thing,” the organization said on social media over the weekend, announcing the launch of the Black Consumer Advisory, described as “a framework designed to keep our community informed on who’s pushing progress and who’s stuck in the past.” We have the power to choose where we spend our money. I am confident that this framework will support our community as we make difficult...

The NAACP has released its unbiased report on racism in the Tea Party and has unexpectedly found it is racist. Hardly surprising. The president of the North Carolina NAACP chapter, Rev. William Barber, went far enough in his condemnation of the group to be noticed by the Washington Post: "We have to have particular concern about supremacy attitudes, violence, hate language, particularly when it's rooted in notions of restoring or taking back or redeeming the country," Barber said. "Because, in the American social-historical-political psyche, we have historical markers that tell us how dangerous this is to be given legitimacy." For...

The NAACP expressed outrage Saturday over Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt’s order to fly the Confederate flag over a state historic site, and asked the public to rally against it. Blunt ordered the flag flown today, for one day only, at the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site near Higginsville in honor of Confederate Memorial Day. The order came after Rep. Mike McGhee, an Odessa Republican, made the request on behalf of local residents. Mary Ratliff, the president of the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she had already written the governor to ask...