NAACP
U.S. left-leaning civil rights advocacy organization (not a news outlet)
Background
The NAACP was founded in 1909 by a group that included W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary White Ovington. Its first offices were in New York. Du Bois launched its magazine, The Crisis, in 1910. In 1939 the NAACP created the Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a legal arm, with Thurgood Marshall as its director-counsel. That fund later became a separate organization. Over the 20th century the NAACP led litigation, lobbying, and organizing against segregation and discrimination, including the school desegregation cases. It is formally nonpartisan, meaning it does not endorse candidates, but it consistently advocates for positions aligned with the political left on race, voting and policing. In 2026 it has criticized Trump administration rollbacks of DEI programs and education funding threats. It has also accused the administration of making performative gestures on HBCUs and warned about the DOJ targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center. At the end of January 2026 it launched a campaign urging senators to block ICE funding, impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and ultimately abolish the agency, a stance Mother Jones reported on. Its statements and publications are advocacy material from an interested party, not independent reporting.
Sources
- NAACP – Our History
- Britannica – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Mother Jones – How the NAACP Signed Up to Abolish ICE
- NAACP – President Condemns Trump Administration's Roll Back of DEI Programs
- NAACP – Statement on the Trump Administration's Hypocrisy Surrounding HBCU Initiatives
- Wikipedia – Derrick Johnson (activist)
Profile compiled 2026-10-14; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.