Source: Roberto Schmidt / Getty The Memphis Safe Task Force, mandated by President Donald Trump, has been a source of controversy since its inception. That controversy has only intensified in recent months as several people have died as a result of the task force. The NAACP sent a letter to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche […]
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Source: Mario Tama / Getty From attempts to disenfranchise Black voters to giving AI companies free rein to pollute low-income Black neighborhoods, President Donald Trump’s second term has seen pronounced, overt attacks on the Black community. So it should come as no surprise that the NAACP has announced that it will spend more on the […]
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Source: MediaNews Group/The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images / Getty Another day, another L for President Donald Trump in his campaign against mail-in voting. On Wednesday, a federal judge blocked the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing a new rule that would place limitations on mail-in voting. The Hill reports that District Judge Emmet […]
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Source: Bongarts / Getty Former NBA player Derrick Coleman is taking a stand against Alabama’s redistricting efforts after announcing he will not attend his induction ceremony into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame. “I declined because this moment is bigger than an award,” Coleman wrote in the Facebook post announcing his decision. “We are living […]
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Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty When I heard that members of the Minnesota GOP reportedly took a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd by crushing the breath out of him with his knee in May 2020, I did not think first of partisan politics. I thought about Walter […]
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Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty The NAACP alleges that data centers operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis are violating the Clean Air Act in a lawsuit filed against the company on Tuesday. CNBC reports that the suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and claims that […]
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Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty As many question what it will take for the 25th Amendment to be activated against Trump, I’m convinced the power behind his regime neither cares nor is worried about his unhinged rants. Trump has continued on a predictable trajectory over the last 10 years. Like his first term, Trump’s actions […]
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