By Ryan P. Haygood
The 2010 Census affords a unique opportunity to harness the momentum of African-American civic engagement that was forged in the 2008 Presidential election — this time, to ensure complete African-American inclusion.

By John Payton
A year ago, we could barely contain our excitement as we contemplated a historic achievement. Barack Obama had won a decisive victory. There was widespread enthusiasm for his Presidency. Right after the election, Gallup reported that 68 percent of the public was proud that Obama was President. His choices of Senator Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State, of Eric Holder to be Attorney General and of Robert Gates to remain as Secretary of Defense were well received. His Inaugural speech was brilliant. We were looking forward to acknowledging and confronting fundamental problems that have plagued our society for decades.

By Lee A. Daniels
Writing with an easy command of a mountain of material that encompasses six decades of enormous changes in America, Sullivan shows how critical the NAACP, now celebrating its centennial, was to the Civil Rights Movement’s ultimate legal and legislative victories that made the United States a democracy in fact not just in rhetoric.

By The Editors
Margaret Bush Wilson, the former Chair of the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died August 11 in St. Louis. Missouri. She was 90 years old.

By Tananarive Due
The NAACP means much more to me than its landmark victories or a century of interracial social struggle—it is where I was raised.

The entertainment industry, particularly television, remains a landscape of limited opportunities for black Americans and other people of color, according to a report released December 18 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The NAACP study, the latest of a series it’s done on Hollywood, asserted that people of color face “employment and [...]

Julian Bond, the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said last week that he’s giving up his post when his three-year term ends this coming February. Bond, who has led the NAACP’s national board for ten years, said he will continue as a member of that body but had determined [...]