October 17, 2016 ā Federal judges all over the nation have caught on to GOP efforts to restrict minority voting.Ā Legislators in Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Mississippi, among other states, immediately rammed through laws imposing new voting restrictions after …..
October 17, 2016 ā With a sobering new report predicting two more centuries of race-based wealth disparity for the U.S., it may be time for the nation to finally acknowledge that lingering, legal segregation is the most obvious culprit.Ā The …..
October 17, 2016 ā The nation is divided and angry, and a new Institute for Policy Studies report suggests why.Ā Itās not just that the Great Recession of 2008 hit poor families extra hard, or that the mild recovery that …..
2016/07/01 – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP applauds the ruling issued by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves on the true nature of H.B. 1523, deceptively named āReligious Freedomā law, as unconstitutional. H.B. 1523 was an attempt to legitimize discrimination …..
2016/06/27 – In 1964, the brutal slayings of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, rocked the country. Their deaths cast a spotlight on the horrific violence and injustice already known by those who lived in …..