NAACP

Since 2021, 21 people have died in Broward County jails. Now organizations are calling for outside oversight.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicks off his 2024 presidential campaign; the NAACP issues a Florida travel advisory; is Florida’s new immigration law prompting some to leave the state?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicks off his 2024 presidential campaign; the NAACP issues a Florida travel advisory; is Florida’s new immigration law prompting some to leave the state?

NAACP speakers — like Colin Mitchell, Florida president of the Youth and College Division — blasted the idea that the African American story is not relevant or lacks value.

The president of a local NAACP branch in Florida has resigned, saying that as a South Asian woman she experienced “racist marginalization” from others in the civil rights group.

Leaders in the civil rights community are pushing the department and other cabinet agencies to take more aggressive action.

The Supreme Court has been dismantling key provisions of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The justices have taken another case on the issue next term.

The Rooney Rule, a policy that went into effect in 2003, requires NFL teams to interview candidates of color for head coaching and senior operation vacancies.

The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail.

The scholarship program, sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, intends to support the next generation of civil rights advocates working in the South.

City leaders are pushing a slate of new ordinances that they hope will fundamentally rebrand the city and discourage people from partying hard there.

The civil rights organization argues the Department of Education has directed states to unfairly divert relief funds from public to private schools.