OAKLAND — City leaders were on high alert Thursday after a mass arrest by federal immigration authorities in East Oakland ...

Provisions in the Voting Rights Act were set to expire initially after five years but were later renewed a total of five ...

Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing ...

NAACP President Derrick Johnson said that outside of the 2026 midterms, the town halls will also discuss issues facing the ...

Washington, D.C., the heart of American democracy, is once again at the center of a heated battle over who gets to call ...

President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going ...

In an effort to mobilize Black voters and counter what it calls “attacks on democracy,” the NAACP has launched a series of ...

The midterms "will determine whether our democracy still holds on," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement to ...

Johnson was one of the most decorated Texas Longhorn football players, earning the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and Dick Butkus ...

The NAACP will not invite U.S. President Donald Trump to address its annual convention next month in a break with a 116-year tradition, saying Trump is "attacking" democracy and civil rights.

FILE – Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, speaks before President Joe Biden arrives at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Friday, May 17 ...