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In federal challenge to Mississippi law, arguments focus on racial discrimination and public safety

A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city

The Independent UK

Illinois NAACP president apologizes after likening migrants to ‘savages,’ rapists, burglars

Teresa Haley apologized Thursday, two days after comments she made surfaced in a video from a recent conference call of NAACP leaders.

Chicago Sun-Times

Battle over creating new court centers on equality in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city

Constitutional rights are at the center of a legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson

The Independent UK

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Edward Blum's crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists

Few people have been more associated with rolling back modern-day civil rights laws than Edward Blum, the former stockbroker who has successfully challenged many affirmative action and voting rights laws.

The Conversation

Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court

A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government – not private citizens or civil rights groups – could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The Conversation

Experts rip "extreme" voting rights loss

8th Circuit Court ruling could leave voting rights enforcement exclusively in the hands of Trump's AG if he wins

Salon

Youngkin and NAACP spar over felony voting rights ahead of decisive Virginia elections

The Virginia NAACP says Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration lacks clear standards for how it restores voting rights for convicted felons who served their sentences

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S. Ct. Will Hear NRA's Case Alleging That N.Y. Government Coerced Companies to Stop Doing Business with NRA

The controversy is similar to part of the controversy in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), which also involves allegations of government coercion aimed at interfering with speech.

Reason

The Cecil-the-Lion-Killing Dentist, Civil Rights Boycott Noncompliers, and Hamas Supporters

What should we think (and what does the law think) about publicly accusing ("doxxing"?) people of what some see as shameful behavior?

Reason

Lawsuit against Black Lives Matter leader endangers free speech rights

The U.S. Supreme Court should take the case of a Black Lives Matter leader in Louisiana who is being sued by a police officer who was injured in protests led by BLM.

Chicago Sun-Times

South Carolina redistricting case could add Democratic House seats

At issue is the way the Republican-dominated state legislature equalized the population of its congressional districts.

WEKU

Clyburn key figure in racist map case

Clyburn says GOP trying to blame him for “unconstitutional racial gerrymander"

Salon

Supreme Court to hear arguments on use of race in South Carolina congressional map - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether a South Carolina congressional district is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Roll Call

Supreme Court to hear arguments in key case about gerrymandering

A South Carolina case about gerrymandering – the drawing of legislative district lines to maximize political power – that could affect voting rights around the country will be one of the cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court during its upcoming 2023-2024 term.

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WEKU

Student loans for parents can be a debt trap. But there's a loophole

Until July 2025, parent PLUS borrowers can paperwork their way into a kinder, gentler repayment plan.

Chicago Sun-Times

75 years covering race in Chicago: A newspaper for a diverse city

As the Sun-Times looks back during its 75th year of continual daily publication, race is a key lens through which to understand the newspaper’s history.

The Independent UK

Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82

Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Hollis Watkins has died

WEKU

NAACP signs agreement with FEMA to advance equity in disaster resilience

As part of the collaborative effort, the NAACP's Emergency Management Task Force will regularly meet with FEMA to advance its progress on equity within disaster preparedness.

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The Independent UK

Voting rights advocates sound alarm on Alabama defying Supreme Court decision with congressional map

NAACP and ACLU called on Supreme Court to deny state lawmakers’ request to defy major ruling

Chicago Sun-Times

‘It’s YOUR fault if I hate you!’

Bigots like Elon Musk always point a finger at the victims of their baseless prejudices.

Fortune

13 civil rights groups just formed a coalition to defend workplaces against the ‘anti-woke’ movement

"We need to make sure that we rise up because the threats to black and brown people in this country are very real," said Alphonso David, president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum.

The Independent UK

'Rustin' puts a spotlight on a undersung civil rights hero

Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama “Rustin.”

Reason

Posting Condemnation of Ex-Husband, Urging Viewers to Contact Him, Is Protected by First Amendment

So says the New Jersey intermediate appellate court, in a case involving a Jewish wife who was claiming her husband refused to give her a "get" (a Jewish religious divorce).

Salon

Why DeSantis deserved Jacksonville boos

Of course there's a link between racist hate crimes and the "anti-woke" ideology pushed by Florida's GOP governor

The Independent UK

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis faces Black leaders' anger after racist killings in Jacksonville

Ron DeSantis scoffed when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use “extreme care” if traveling to Florida

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