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The Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches has released a COVID-19 Action Plan that aims to ensure Black and Brown communities receive resources during the pandemic and to address inequalities that people of color may face during future crises. People of color continue to be impacted at a disproportionate rate by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. According to state data, Black…

The Connecticut NAACP is taking action as the pandemic continues to highlight racial inequalities.

CBS Television and the NAACP have reached an agreement to develop content that tells stories of the African American experience

A civil rights activist, attorney and writer explain race relations, societal change and the political awakening happening in the United States following the tragic death of George Floyd. When it comes to race, “systemic problems have plagued the nation for not only decades, but for centuries,” says Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People....

Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. An autopsy found that 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back...

Anger and frustration spilled into the streets of Atlanta over the weekend after another police shooting involving a Black man. Rayshard Brooks died from two shots to the back on Friday at a Wendy’s, in a case ruled as a homicide by city authorities.

Young people have been behind some key victories in the protest movement against police brutality, including that some schools are breaking security contracts with local police, said Tiffany Loftin, director of the NAACP Youth and College Division.

Jimmy Fallon dedicated Monday’s hour-long episode of “The Tonight Show” to addressing a recent blackface controversy and discussing race and racism as protests against the death of George Floyd continue across the country.

Jimmy Fallon talks about the ongoing protests against police violence and his use of blackface in a past “SNL” sketch before speaking with Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP.

An NAACP chapter president in Tennessee who found a target in his front yard over the weekend said Sunday that police initially dismissed the idea that the object could signal a potential threat, NBC News reports.

Democrat Kweisi Mfume has easily won a special election to complete the term of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, retaking a Maryland congressional seat Mfume held for five terms before leaving to lead the NAACP.

A woman who helped found the Norwich branch of the NAACP worked through her life to bring equality for African-Americans in Connecticut.

Lottie B. Scott stands in front of a book case filled with pictures. “They are all a part of my journey,” she said, looking on at the many faces. A younger version of herself, wearing a high school graduation cap, sits on the top shelf. She wears no smile in the picture, but the determination in her eyes is hard…

The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.

The Supreme Court seems likely to overturn a lower court ruling in favor of an African-American media mogul and comedian who’s suing cable giant Comcast for racial discrimination. The justices appeared to be in broad agreement Wednesday that an appeals court applied the wrong legal standard in allowing business owner Byron Allen’s suit against Comcast to go forward. Allen has...

Minority employees at Harley-Davidson’s plant in Kansas City have been subjected to years of harassment and discrimination — including having swastikas and nooses posted in the plant, frequent racial epithets and at least one assault, several employees said at a news conference organized by the NAACP-Kansas City on Friday. “All the time I worked there it’s been there, it’s just...

For the first time, Hartford Police officers will wear body cameras, recording video of most encounters they have with city residents, and interactions while out on patrol.

When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to resign last week, he did so in the shadow of a Capitol built by a founding father and a slave owner, in the former seat of the Confederacy still wrestling with what to do about statues that honor those who fought to preserve slavery. The 35-year-old photo on his yearbook page of a...

Hartford police on Monday announced a pilot program to have dozens of officers wear body cameras.

Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn had his first major encounter with officers as a kid who witnessed a murder in a tough part of California’s capital city. His second: as a teenager busted on allegations of assaulting an officer. “Nobody in my neighborhood thought about being a police officer,” Hahn said in an interview last week with The Associated Press....