Since 2023, I have been an active member of the Bloomington-Normal National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council. The NAACP, a historic organization, is ...

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His involvement in the local chapter started back in 1957 when he joined the Louisville NAACP Youth Council at age 14. "Born in segregation, had an opportunity to participate in the end of ...

Students — some of whom are part of the NAACP’s youth council — were upset and complained to their parents and others after Forkin read part of the O.J. Simpson trial transcript to them that ...

So, the organization founded the Laurel Youth Council Chorus. “Medgar Evers, who was the field secretary for the NAACP, was really active in trying to get the youth involved ,so he began to try ...

The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...

Anker had an opportunity to be a city council member in a runoff and lost to Travis Chambers, said Ed DuBose, national NAACP board member and the Georgia state administrator. Councilors subverted ...

A mother and daughter are making history as the first family duo to serve in leadership roles for the Beaumont branch of the NAACP. Natasha Martin has been elected as the branch's first female ...

In 1958, a year after Clara Luper became the adviser for the Oklahoma City National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council, she staged a sit-in with some of her ...