SC Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene will give his first campaign speech to the Manning, SC chapter of the NAACP tomorrow. He told them he was going to "talk about jobs, education and justice." Next stop: Democratic National Convention. [CNN]

This week, the NAACP passed a resolution asking Tea Partiers to repudiate racists in their ranks. So, naturally, Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams called the NAACP racist on CNN, and then penned an idiotic racist letter on his blog.

Michelle Obama is at the annual NAACP convention today in lovely Kansas City, but she'll probably GTFO before tomorrow, when the organization could vote on a resolution condemning the Tea Party movement as "racist."

Benjamin Hooks, who became the head of the NAACP in 1977 and spent 15 years adding hundreds of thousands of members to the flagging civil rights group, has died at the age of 85.

Barack Obama delivered a fiery speech, perhaps the most impassioned public speech he's ever given, a speech that touched on the subject of personal responsibility in the black community, at the NAACP's annual meeting last night.

The NAACP, once America's premier civil rights group but now even less influential than PETA, has sent a letter to America's biggest advertisers demanding that they hire agencies that have black executives. Does anyone care?

In your philosophical Friday media column: arm-twisting at the San Francisco Chronicle, intellectual thuggery at the NAACP, body-slamming of college papers, and death and rebirth of reporters:

MSNBC's Peter Alexander concludes an interview today with the president of the NAACP by noting, "The president honors this country's colored people." Nilla! Shortly afterwards Alexander apologized, which was even more amusing.

Among perennial nominees Tyler Perry, Will Smith and Queen Latifah, a flaxen-haired young star has emerged to stake her claim to NAACP Image Awards legend.

A press release from the WGA today demonstrated how the Guild has the potential to be a merciful awards-show-waiver-granting Hollywood entity, announcing that they have reached a pact with the NAACP allowing the Image Awards to proceed as planned: