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Behind The Young Achievers With Hazel N. Dukes

Hazel N. Dukes, President of NYS Conferene of NAACP Branches takes us behind the story... more

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Board votes to move graves for landfill; NAACP wants inquiry

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Anti-Obama racial incidents reported in several cities

Not everyone is happy about Barack Obama's election last week as president. In several places across the country, reports have come in of racially motivated incidents since election day.

In Raleigh, North Carolina, four students spray-painted anti-Obama messages across campus, including one that used a racial slur and suggested assassinating the president-elect. The NAACP called for the students to be suspended and brought to justice, but the school says the students won't face charges because the writing wasn't a hate crime since it was written on a wall where free speech is encouraged.

At Baylor University in Texas, a noose was found hanging from a tree outside a campus building shortly after Obama won the election Nov. 4. Later that same night, black and white students "exchanged words" outside a dormitory but were reportedly dispersed by police before the incident turned physical, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald. Across campus, students reportedly burned Obama/Biden campaign signs, although school officials suggest the students were actually burning empty computer boxes, the paper reported.

And it's not just in the south.

On Long Island, New York, the Secret Service is investigating an incident in which more than two dozen vehicles were spray-painted with racist graffiti, including messages targeting Obama. One local resident says "kill Obama" was written on a vehicle, according to a news report.

At Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, racial slurs were reportedly directed to at least three black students in the week following Barack Obama's election.

"In separate incidents, two black students said they heard racial slurs yelled from cars," according to the Associated Press. "A third student reported being called an "ignorant black (expletive)" when she was talking to a friend about Obama's victory," according to AP.

Lehigh President Alice Gast sent a campus-wide e-mail saying she was "deeply saddened" by the reports. "Rather than celebrating a landmark event in American history, we are addressing hateful acts of racism and ignorance," she wrote. "This cannot be tolerated."

And in Torrance, California, vandals reportedly spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs on a house and several cars that displayed campaign signs or bumper stickers for Obama. At one house, the words "Go Back to Africa" were spray-painted across the wall, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Back in Long Island, one local resident offered advice for those trying to adjust to the news of the nation's first black president. "We have to unite together instead of putting hatred stuff on people's cars," said Hallock Nash, who was reportedly trying to remove the racist graffiti from his vintage cars. "It's not going to change anything," Nash told the local CBS News affiliate. "He's still going to be president."Not everyone is happy about Barack Obama's election last week as president. In... more

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Racism emerges as Europe reacts to Obama

In the days following Barack Obama's historic election as America's 44th... more

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NAACP watching, ready for voter problems

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The NAACP will have lawyers targeting 750 precincts around the... more

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'No match, no vote' law to be enforced

A controversial voter registration law that requires Floridians to have their identification match up with a state or federal database will be enforced.

State elections officials will resume enforcement of a controversial state law that requires Floridians to have their identification match up with a state or federal database in order to register to vote.

Secretary of State Kurt Browning sent notice to the state's 67 supervisors of elections on Friday that the 2006 law, which has been on hold for the last year pending court rulings, would take effect again Sept. 8.

The result is that voters whose identification doesn't match with state files on Election Day will be given a provisional ballot and two days to prove their identity for their ballot to count.

Voting rights activists, who had unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the law, blasted the decision, saying it allows the state to rely on what they consider error-prone databases in the month before voter registration ends on Oct. 6.

``This 11th-hour decision is an ill-advised move to apply a policy the state has never enforced in its current form, at a time when registration activity is at its highest, said Alvaro Fernandez of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project, a plaintiff in the case along with the NAACP and the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition.

Browning acknowledged that the court case prompted the state to make changes to its voter match process during the 2008 legislative session but he said the voting rights proponents are now being sore losers.

The law, passed by the Republican-led legislature in 2005, requires Floridians registering to vote to supply a drivers license number or the last four digits of their social security number. Proponents of the law say it was needed to prevent voter fraud.

Election officials try to match the would-be voter's information with state and federal databases. If there is no match, the applicant is asked to provide more information.

This year, the legislature changed the law, requiring county elections officials to scan all voter registration applications. Any that don't match will be quickly reviewed by the Bureau of Voter Registration. If there are no typographical errors or other obvious problems, counties will ask voters for more information.

Voters whose information doesn't match the databases may still show up to vote on Election Day, but they will be given a provisional ballot. Their vote will then be counted only if they verify their identity by showing a valid idenification card, a social security care or a Florida driver's license to election officials within two days of casting the vote.

Charles Lichtman, a Fort Lauderdale attorney who's heading the Democrats' Election Day statewide legal team, said attorneys will be available at polling stations to fight for voters whose names don't appear on the registration rolls.

''Florida voters don't want to show up at the polls and be told you can't vote a regular ballot or you can't vote because of a crazy technicality,'' he said.A controversial voter registration law that requires Floridians to have their... more

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NAACP to protest police action

The Stamford NAACP plans to hold a peaceful protest against city police and monitor... more

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John McCain and Martin Luther King

John McCain received many kudos for addressing the NAACP, but unfortunately the gap... more

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Obama Addresses the NAACP Video

Last night, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama addressed the 99th annual... more

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Barack Obama at NAACP Annual Conference

On Monday Barack Obama spoke at the NAACP Annual Conference Another great great... more

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Pet Adoption Promo Shut Down --‘Black is Beautiful’

GEORGETOWN, Texas -- An animal shelter inundated with black cats and dogs was planning... more

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Rev. Wright at NAACP

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, ex-pastor of Barack Obama, delivers a speech to the NAACP.

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NAACP and pastor blame Waycross School for racism

Remember those third grade students who plotted to kill their teacher? Well, now a... more

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Tavis Smiley is an idiot: Julian Bond is a relic

Barack Obama rightly decided not to attend the set up disguised as an invitation to... more

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NAACP awards show some love to Washington, Perry

Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters" and Tyler Perry's TBS... more

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NAACP Files Suit Over Louisianna Voter Purging

The NAACP has filed a civil rights lawsuit challenging a purge of Louisiana's... more

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Stop Snitching

Stop Snitching is a never before seen look at the controversial STOP SNITCHING... more

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NAACP official: Vick shouldn't be banned from NFL

The head of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP said Wednesday that Atlanta Falcons... more

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Racial slur 'buried' by US group

But just 'cause we say it's dead, does it mean it really dead?

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