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FIGHTING FORWARD: VOTING RIGHTS
Rev. Dr. Rodney E. Williams, President NAACP Kansas City, MO Branch On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law, expanding the right…
WHY WE SUPPORT THE KANSAS CITY EARNINGS TAX
Rev. Dr. Rodney E. Williams, President NAACP Kansas City, Missouri Branch The Kansas City earnings tax better known as the “e-tax is vital to the proper functioning and delivery of…
WHY WE MUST VOTE
Rev. Dr. Rodney E. Williams, President NAACP Kansas City, Missouri Branch Public education has been in a permanent state of crisis since before the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown…
NAACP OPPOSITION TO SENATE BILLS 53 and 60
Rev. Dr. Rodney E. Williams, President NAACP Kansas City, Missouri Branch The Kansas City Missouri Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is adamantly against…
NAACP KC’s statement on the killing of George Floyd
For Immediate Release June 2, 2020Contact: Rev. Dr. Rodney E. Williams, President 816-421-1191 “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice…
Why We Must Vote
Once again we have been called upon to exercise our right to vote. At the present moment the pillars of our democracy economic justice, voting rights and educational equality are…