Making an impact

With more than 2 million members and 112 years of experience, we work to make sure Black voices are heard, demands are met, and Black excellence is amplified.

In 2020:

• We litigated and won a pivotal Supreme Court case, NAACP v. Trump, that prevented the administration from rescinding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), thus protecting the safety and futures of almost 700,000 DACA recipients, including many from the African Diaspora.
• We recruited and activated nearly 200,000 volunteers, whosent more than 20 million texts, 4.5 million pieces of direct mail, 4 million individual emails, and made 675,000 phone calls to Black potential voters, urging them to vote and providing information about how and when to do so.
• We took to the federal courts, in conjunction with national allies and state and local NAACP units, to challenge the government's inadequate preparation and/or lack of transparency about their plans to count people of color in the 2020 Census, and to block the government's intention to end the census early.
• The national moratoriums on evictions, foreclosures, negative credit reporting, and utility suspensions were a direct result of advocacy led by the NAACP.
• We collaborated with Beyonce's BeyGOOD Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund to provide 20 business owners with $10,000 grants to help keep them afloat.
• To tackle our mission to diversify the entertainment industry, we partnered with CBS Television Studios to create content for broadcast and streaming. We will work to establish a dedicated team of executives and infrastructure to acquire, develop and produce programming. The partnership will focus on producing premium content that expands the number of diverse voices contributing to an ever-evolving society, and by telling inclusive stories that increase the visibility and impact of Black artists in a growing media landscape.

And we're not done.

Learn more about the issues we're working to tackle.