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FILE - The xAI data center is seen, May 7, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center

By Matthew Daly and Bernard Condon - Associated Press

Louisville guard Tajianna Roberts (22) dribbles against Duke forward Delaney Thomas (12) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Sunday, March 8, 2026, in Duluth, Ga. (AP Photo/Colin Hubbard)

NAACP’s college sports boycott scheme puts politics before Black empowerment

FILE - NAACP President Derrick Johnson arrives at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, Feb. 28, 2026, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

NAACP urges boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights

By Matt Brown - Associated Press

FILE - NAACP President Derrick Johnson arrives at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, Feb. 28, 2026, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights

By Matt Brown - Associated Press

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

The NAACP names ex-DOJ civil rights chief Kristen Clarke as its top lawyer

By Aaron Morrison - Associated Press

FILE - People voicing their opposition to Mississippi House Bill 1020 wear protest t-shirts as they gathered on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

The NAACP ends its challenge over Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

In this aerial photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, attendees watch and toast the sunset at a Florida Keys bicentennial celebration, Friday, May 19, 2023, on the restored Old Seven Mile Bridge in Marathon, Fla. The sunset gathering was among a series of Keys events being staged to mark the 200th anniversary, on July 3, of the Florida Territorial Legislature's 1823 founding of Monroe County, containing the entire island chain. The old bridge was originally part of Henry Flagler's Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad completed in 1912, and is now closed to vehicles but open to pedestrians and bicycles. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Civil rights groups warn tourists about Florida in wake of ‘hostile’ laws

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Mail-in and absentee ballots are fed into a machine for sorting during a media tour of the Allegheny County Election Division's Elections warehouse in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. Ballots will not be counted until 7 p.m., Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Suit seeks to have mail-in votes lacking dates counted in Pennsylvania

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This photo provided by North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts shows Associate Justice Phil Berger Jr. One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on hold amid a dispute over whether two justices on the state Supreme Court — one the son of arguably the state's most powerful Republican politician — should recuse themselves. (North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts via AP)

N.C. voter ID debate clouded by call for justices’ recusal

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019 file photo, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Derrick Johnson faces reporters during a news in Boston, held to announce that the NAACP's 111th national convention is to take place in Boston, in July of 2020. Emails and recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that the NAACP's national president chastised women who went public with a sexual harassment claim. The records also show that Johnson was reluctant to swiftly deal with accusations against a former North Carolina officer in the civil rights organization. The emails also indicate that he knew about the complaint two years before he says he did. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

NAACP urges pro athletes to avoid signing with Texas teams over abortion, voting laws

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 14, 2020 file photo, a voter, right, shows her identification to a Harris County election clerk before voting, in Houston. Texas Republicans advanced a slate of proposed new voting restrictions Thursday, April 1, 2021, that would reduce options to cast ballots, limit polling hours and hand more power to partisan poll watchers. All those efforts are rolled into a single bill that cleared the GOP-controlled state Senate — a key marker in a campaign by Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, to impose new restrictive measures over elections in America's biggest red state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Democrat eyes GOP freshman’s seat in growing suburban Texas District

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this April 9, 2014, file photo, civil rights activist Vernon Jordan introduces former President Bill Clinton during the Civil Rights Summit in Austin, Texas. Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, died Tuesday, March 2, 2021, according to a statement from his daughter. He was 85. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Vernon Jordan, activist, former Clinton adviser, has died

By Jeff Martin and Errin Haines - Associated Press

Ambulance service, Louisiana NAACP offering EMT tuition

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Kentucky governor urges Black community to get vaccinated

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Longtime head of NAACP’s California-Hawaii chapter resigns

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Dubuque park may be named for historic Black resident

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Vermont NAACP leader moving, says harassment too much

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Town renames school after civil rights activist Du Bois

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$In this Tuesday, May 19, 2020 photo, DarQuan Jones, right, speaks during a press conference alongside his father, Daryl Jones Jr., in Des Moines, Iowa. Jones, 22, was assaulted by three white men in the early morning of May 16 in a racially motivated attack, resulting in five facial fractures and a broken wrist. Jones said there was an attempt to drown him in a nearby creek, and at least one perpetrator repeatedly used racial slurs. As of Friday, June 19, 2020,, one suspect has been arrested and one additional warrant issued for arrest. (Olivia Sun/The Des Moines Register via AP )$

2 charged in Iowa assault that NAACP says was racist

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In this June 6, 2020, file photo, demonstrators walk on Pennsylvania Avenue as they protest over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. A democratic government that is amenable to the changes may enact legislation, or a change of leadership can be forced at the ballot box. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Democrats exploit well-meaning passions in cities seeking relief

By Tammy Bruce