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25 May 2017, 1:54 pm
Outside of the courtroom through the protests of citizens, the actions of vigilantes and advocacy by the NAACP and the newly established American Civil Liberties Union, the rights of citizens came into sharp focus. [read post]
25 May 2017, 5:00 am
Note: David Meyer-Lindenberg crosses the President and General Counsel of the Institute for Justice, Scott Bullock, one of the nation’s foremost opponents of eminent-domain abuse. [read post]
22 May 2017, 5:55 am
WASHINGTON — NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization after his contract expires this summer, officials said Friday. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 8:47 am
North Carolina NAACP involves the constitutionality of one of most restrictive voting rights laws in the nation, which includes such restrictions that a lower court found it to have revived the anti-racial specter of “Jim Crow” discrimination. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:30 pm
More recently, the Cincinnati Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution calling for the national NAACP to advocate for state legislation that would require officers to receive the same number of hours of de-escalation training that they have in firearms training. [read post]
26 Feb 2017, 6:54 am
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [website] passed a resolution [resolution, PDF] on Friday announcing a national boycott of North Carolina. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 12:01 am
On this day in history, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in New York City “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 6:20 am
See, e.g., NAACP v. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 12:01 am
He chaired the NAACP’s million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on their board until 1967. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 12:55 pm
I will actively support all efforts to make the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact happen, to reform the electoral college. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm
Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark school and employment desegregation cases at the U.S. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 12:01 am
Thurgood Marshall as a young man The case of the Groveland Boys made national news at the time, and also had a significant impact upon the NAACP’s goals for future litigation. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 12:28 pm
Trump’s extensive national and international business investments arguably put him into conflict with the emoluments clause in the Constitution. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 6:15 am
The risks confronting supporters of civil rights grew so acute that the Supreme Court in 1958, in NAACP v. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 2:10 pm
The harrowing account of National Review writer David French’s experience of Twitter abuse as a result of his opposition to Trump is another example. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 5:13 am
” The groups are the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, and National Urban League. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 9:51 am
Throughout her career, she was active in professional, social and civil rights organizations, including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 2:30 pm
It found that the FBI had planted an informant in the NAACP for decades despite knowing the organization had done nothing illegal. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 1:01 pm
First, consider setting up recurring donations to organizations that fight for social justice, including: NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center, Trevor Project for LGBT Youth, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and National Immigration Law Center. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 12:28 pm
His 1986 nomination to a federal judgeship was quashed by the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee following allegations that Sessions referred to the NAACP and other civil rights groups as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired. [read post]
