Next NAACP Meeting
Always second Saturday! Next regular meeting , Saturday, February 11, 2012, 1:00 pm at the Vision Ford Atrium, 1500 S. White Sands, Alamogordo, NM, Visitors welcome!
Otero County NAACP presents its annual Junteenth Celebration, Saturday, May 12th, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Alamogordo Public Library, music and dance outside under the trees. Karunna Warren and his New World Drummers and Dancers will entertain with traditional African drums and dance. Dancing and singing encouraged. Everyone Welcome!
Legal Redress
The Otero County NAACP Redress Committee provides legal advice and information to community members in the event one may feel that their civil rights have been violated. For more information on Legal Redress, contact any of our local officers listed under our contact information.-
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NAACP Decries “James Crow Esq.”
Ben Jealous: President NAACP The civil rights group says recent voter restrictions are a deliberate attempt to dilute the political power of minorities. State-level voting restrictions are an attempt to suppress the minority vote and prevent them from exercising political … Continue reading
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Otero County NAACP gives book to library
NAACP donates book to Alamogordo Public Library. Standing from Left to Right, NAACP of Otero County members Virgil George, Velma Moore, Charles Cromer, Denise Lang, Chris Jones, Bill Stroud, Sylvester Mattox, Bill Brooks, Karen Hutchison. Sitting are Shaughn Marlowe … Continue reading
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At the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in L.A. Ca.
The newly elected President of the California NAACP, Alice A. Huffman (right), and the Treasurer of the Otero County, New Mexico NAACP, Denise Lang (left) together at the opening plenary session of the International Drug Policy Reform Convention in Los … Continue reading
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NAACP Passes Historic Resolution
NAACP PASSES HISTORIC RESOLUTION CALLING FOR END TO WAR ON DRUGS Neill Franklin at the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous: Major step towards equity, justice, effective law enforcement (Los Angeles, CA) – Today the NAACP … Continue reading
Benjamin Jealous, NAACP Annual Convention
Benjamin Jealous, keynote speaker at the NAACP 102nd Annual Convention 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
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Georgia NAACP steps in on prison riots
Brutal Reprisals Against Peaceful GA Inmate Strikers Confirmed, Was One Victim Hidden For Weeks By Prison Authorities? By BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon Black, brown and white inmates in 6 Georgia prisons nonviolently locked themselves in their cells for … Continue reading
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