The NAACP hosts a rally this weekend in Washington D.C. with hundreds of other organizations. They're trying to promote good jobs, education and greater equality for black voters. NAACP President and ...

The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration. By David A. Fahrenthold ...

Benjamin Jealous, President, People For the America Way discusses voting rights in America Activists are intensifying their efforts in the fight against what they say are restrictive voting laws being ...

The Sierra Club, in a move reflecting tension at the influential grassroots environmental organization, has sidelined its executive director, Benjamin Jealous, as controversy has ensued over his ...

Benjamin Jealous, the president of the NAACP will step down from his position in January. “As others questioned its vitality, we have been able to regrow the mightiest of all trees in the ecology of ...

As the youngest president in the 104-year-old NAACP’s history, Benjamin Todd Jealous is credited with infusing the organization, once seen as graying and vulnerable, with energy, modernity—and ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous, who is credited with boosting finances at the nation’s largest civil rights organization and helping to stabilize it, said Sunday that he ...

Two major African-American activists made their presidential endorsements known Friday as former NAACP head Benjamin Jealous released a statement sanctioning Democratic presidential candidate Bernie ...

Benjamin Jealous will join the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer in Public and International ...