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The nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization is urging Black travelers to avoid Florida
Today, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida. The travel advisory comes in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools. The decision by the NAACP follows the League of United Latin…
Read MoreRepublican senate members expelled two Black House members but they are back
Tennessee Republicans expelled two black lawmakers from the State Senate, but a white woman colleague, who escaped being thrown out by one vote, said the men were forced out because of the color of their skin. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson, Democrats, were accused of disrupting the State Senate in Nashville to…
Read MoreTennessee’s Republican Senate expelled two Black lawmakers for addressing gun violence
Tennessee Republicans expelled two Black lawmakers from the State Senate, but a White woman colleague, who escaped being thrown out by one vote, said the men were forced out because of the color of their skin. “We are not White,” said Gloria Johnson who is white. But she may have meant that she is not…
Read MoreThe reparations committee proposes paying each Black person who lives in San Francisco $5 million
San Francisco has proposed to give the dwindling number of Black adults still living in the “City by the Bay†a $5 million payout, but the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, which is part of the nation’s largest civil rights organization, thinks it’s a bad idea and Supervisor Shamann Walton, who is leading reparations…
Read MorePolice are the only suspects in the death of Ronald Greene
Five state police officers and a local cop were charged with beating to death Ronald Greene, a Black man, following a traffic stop. The cops tossed his body on the side of the road to cover up the murder. The cops told Greene’s relatives that he had been killed in a car accident. The state…
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