Tag: NAACP
Congressman files lawsuit against Trump for inciting Capitol riots
The lawsuit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and the far-right extremist groups of conspiring to incite an assembled crowd to march upon the U.S. Capitol to disrupt and intimidate Congress from approving the count of electoral votes.
NAACP reveals tactics fossil fuel industry uses to manipulate communities of...
The report describes at length the health and financial harms that coal, oil, and gas bring to the communities they cross, and how these harms are disproportionately impacting people of color.
Climate justice is racial justice is gender justice
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
100 years ago, black people marched down 5th Avenue to declare...
The “Silent Protest Parade” was the first mass demonstration of its kind and marked a pivotal moment in civil rights history.
NAACP vows to resist Sessions appointment as attorney general with civil...
EXCLUSIVE: NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and other members of the civil rights group rally outside Senator Jeff Sessions’ office and hold a sit-in.
ACLU & NAACP: Jeff Sessions unfit for post defending civil rights...
Trump’s pick has drawn widespread outrage because of Sessions’s opposition to the Voting Rights Act, support for anti-immigration legislation and history of making racist comments.
BREAKING: White Supremacist Group Storms NAACP in Houston
The group, dubbed "White Lives Matter" is upset with the NAACP for their response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
ACLU and NAACP File Lawsuit For Release of Police Shooting Footage
Refusing to release the videos of Clark’s death merely affirms the public’s distrust of police and state officials.
NAACP Teams With Low-Income Children’s Program to Help Parents Too
The partnership is aimed at providing families with the economic opportunities they otherwise aren't afforded.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.