The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Barack Obama. ...more

February 21, 2009

The NAACP chose 35-year-old activist and former news executive Ben Jealous as its president Saturday, making him the youngest leader in the 99-year history of the nation's largest civil rights organization. ...more

May 18, 2008

Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97. ...more

February 24, 2008

Perhaps Alex Sink, the lone Democrat in Florida's Cabinet, is right. Perhaps everyone should chill out about the ban on Florida delegates from this summer's Democratic National Convention. ...more

February 17, 2008

Regarding "Face-Off Fixes On Florida" by William March (Metro, Feb. 14): While Hillary Clinton's insistence that Florida and Michigan delegates are counted doesn't surprise me, it angers me just the same. This is just another example of an endless pattern of behavior completely devoid of principle in a shameless attempt for power. And her allies are singing the same, no-substance tune. ...more

February 16, 2008

Even with the voting and candidate boycott now over, the fight over Florida's Jan. 29 presidential primary is only intensifying. ...more

February 14, 2008