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GOP widens Black history knowledge gap

White students tend to know little about the recent history of racial violence in the U.S.

Salon

New Edition And Frankie Beverly To Be Honored At NAACP Image Awards

New Edition and Frankie Beverly to be honored at 55th NAACP Image Awards for their contributions to R&B music and cultural impact.

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CBS Venture With NAACP Developing Daytime Drama About Black Family

‘The Gates’ to be produced in partnership with Procter & Gamble

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Queen Latifah To Host NAACP Image Awards

Event happens March 16 on BET, CBS

Broadcasting & Cable

Joy Reid on Trump and the "two Americas"

MSNBC host discusses Trump, her new book on civil rights history and the media's crucial role in the 2024 election

Salon

Ben Crenshaw’s childhood golf course in Austin is still facing a battle to avoid being bulldozed

The more quiet the university gets, the more worried Muny friends get and the more at risk the future of the course becomes.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Central Kentucky tenant advocates, homeless shelters say they’re in the middle of an eviction, hou

Groups like the Madison County Tenants Union, the NAACP and local shelters have organized multiple marches in Berea and Richmond since last December. They say it’s to call attention to both the local homeless community and a rising number of evictions in the county.

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Netflix Tops NAACP Image Awards Nominations

CBS, BET to simulcast live awards show in March

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Richmond community members organize MLK Day march calling for affordable housing

Richmond community members organized a Martin Luther King Day march Monday morning to help bring attention to those struggling with homelessness and a rising cost of living.

WEKU

Groundbreaking ruling allows Mississippi legislature to create state-run court system in Jackson

From state politics to allegations of negligence, buckle up for a rollercoaster of news featuring a state-run court system and a lawsuit against a rehab ce...

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Federal appeals court temporarily delays new state-run court in Mississippi's majority-Black capital

A federal appeals court has temporarily delayed Mississippi officials from creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson

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Judge allows new court in Mississippi's majority-Black capital, rejecting NAACP request to stop it

A federal judge will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson

The Independent UK

Civil rights leader removed from movie theater for using his own chair

A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons

The Independent UK

Preschool under fire after Black toddler ‘arrested’ in Rosa Parks role-play

Preschool role-play branded ‘racially unethical’

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In federal challenge to Mississippi law, arguments focus on racial discrimination and public safety

A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois NAACP president apologizes after likening migrants to ‘savages,’ rapists, burglars

Teresa Haley apologized Thursday, two days after comments she made surfaced in a video from a recent conference call of NAACP leaders.

The Independent UK

Battle over creating new court centers on equality in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city

Constitutional rights are at the center of a legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson

The Conversation

Edward Blum's crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists

Few people have been more associated with rolling back modern-day civil rights laws than Edward Blum, the former stockbroker who has successfully challenged many affirmative action and voting rights laws.

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Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court

A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government – not private citizens or civil rights groups – could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Salon

Experts rip "extreme" voting rights loss

8th Circuit Court ruling could leave voting rights enforcement exclusively in the hands of Trump's AG if he wins

The Independent UK

Youngkin and NAACP spar over felony voting rights ahead of decisive Virginia elections

The Virginia NAACP says Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration lacks clear standards for how it restores voting rights for convicted felons who served their sentences

Reason

S. Ct. Will Hear NRA's Case Alleging That N.Y. Government Coerced Companies to Stop Doing Business with NRA

The controversy is similar to part of the controversy in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), which also involves allegations of government coercion aimed at interfering with speech.

Reason

The Cecil-the-Lion-Killing Dentist, Civil Rights Boycott Noncompliers, and Hamas Supporters

What should we think (and what does the law think) about publicly accusing ("doxxing"?) people of what some see as shameful behavior?

Chicago Sun-Times

Lawsuit against Black Lives Matter leader endangers free speech rights

The U.S. Supreme Court should take the case of a Black Lives Matter leader in Louisiana who is being sued by a police officer who was injured in protests led by BLM.

WEKU

South Carolina redistricting case could add Democratic House seats

At issue is the way the Republican-dominated state legislature equalized the population of its congressional districts.

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