Friday, July 11, 2025

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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Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human rights officials

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.

Five facts that show the enormity of American inequality

Whatever wealth exists among America's poor should not be taken away because of some ignorant prejudice of the rich.

No ordinary solidarity—inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.