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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley stood with state and NAACP officials at a news conference Tuesday as they laid out the reasons why the death penalty should be repealed in the state. (Credit: Karen Adams/All-News 99.1 WNEW)

NAACP, O’Malley Call for Death Penalty Repeal

Gov. Martin O’Malley says he believes the Maryland General Assembly has the will to repeal capital punishment this session.

2013/01/15

NAACP Chairman Myrlie Evers-Williams speaks onstage during the 41st NAACP Image awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on Feb. 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, Calif. (credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NAACP)

Report: First Non-Clergy Member To Give Invocation During Inauguration

The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers will deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Jan. 21.

2013/01/08

The fanfare for President Obama's second inauguration is expected to be far less than the first in January 2009. (Photo credit JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Fanfare for Second Inauguration Toned Down from Four Years Ago

Four years and one re-election after Barack Obama became America’s first black president, some of the thrill is gone.

2013/01/06

Rev. Williams Owens (first on right) (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Opinion: Rev. William Owens Confronts Barack Obama On Same-Sex Marriage

Rev. William Owens takes great issue with Obama’s linkage of Dr. King’s civil rights movement of the past to the current gay rights movement regarding same-sex marriage. Owens says that King embraced traditional religion, and he strongly suggests that King would not want his civil rights’ mission altered to include same-sex marriage.

2012/08/03

File photo: Mitt Romney and John Sununu (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Opinion: Learn To Be An American

One day after Rush Limbaugh called on W. Mitt Romney to use racist attacks against the President, Romney dispatched campaign surrogate John Sununu to deliver a message to the first African American President of the United States: we will teach you how to be an American.

2012/07/18

Mitt Romney (Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GettyImages)

Opinion: Romney’s Speech To NAACP A Cynical Play For White Votes

Romney had an opportunity to open a dialogue with the NAACP. Instead he talked about denying civil rights to a civil rights organization and spoke in condescending and paternalistic terms about being a better president for African Americans than Barack Obama. It was a clear and cynical play for white votes.

2012/07/12

Washington Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry attends the HBO documentary Screening of "Nine Lives of Marion Barry" at the HBO Theater on Aug. 6, 2009 in New York City. (credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for HBO)

Marion Barry: Black Community ‘Not Going To Support Mitt Romney’

Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd, Mitt Romney declared Wednesday he’d do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. He drew jeers when he lambasted the Democrat’s policies.

2012/07/11

File photo of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a recent campaign stop. (credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

Romney To Make Pitch To Black Voters At NAACP

Mitt Romney isn’t going to win the black vote. But he’s making a pitch to African-Americans at the NAACP’s annual meeting, giving a major speech that’s also aimed at showing independent and swing voters that he’s willing to reach out to diverse audiences.

2012/07/11

Rev. Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Trayvon Martin family, join together in a protest march just prior to a town hall meeting in Sanford, Florida. (Photo by Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)

Is Trayvon Martin’s Name Being Exploited By Civil Rights Leaders?

Some have asserted that black leaders have gone too far in using Trayvon Martin’s murder as a rallying point. Others, however, see a nation united in outrage – and maybe even fear – that is crying out, loud and clear, for change.

2012/04/18