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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has sued Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves after he signed a new state bill. Governor Reeves signed House Bill 1020, which allows state authorities to have more control over law enforcement in Jackson, Mississippi. The new controversial law will also provide the Hinds County District Attorney’s […]
Trevor Noah is the latest to express frustration over Elon Musk’s plans to attach a fee to Twitter verification. As previously reported by the Verge, Musk wanted to launch a new version of Twitter Blue under which currently verified users would be given 90 days to sign up for a paid subscription or risk losing […]
Pharrell just changed five lives. The multi-hyphenate and his Something In the Water Festival have canceled the student debt of five young Black leaders. The generous move was announced Friday at the St. Regis hotel in Washington, D.C., where the NAACP was hosting a panel on the Black student debt crisis. The event was organized by Wisdom Cole, the organization’s […]
Country star Morgan Wallen took a step out of the spotlight earlier this year after a video showed him saying the N-word while arriving home from a night out. At the time, he apologized for his usage of the racial slur, and NAACP Nashville president Sheryl Guinn offered to educate him on the word. His team reached […]
Chadwick Boseman’s life and career were commemorated at the 2021 NAACP Image Awards. The late actor won the Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture award for his work in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, one of his last films. He passed away in August at the age of 43 after a difficult four-year battle with […]
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