JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge has dismissed one lawsuit that challenges a new law dealing with appointment of judges in the majority-Black capital city of Jackson and the surrounding county, but a separate lawsuit remains alive in federal ...
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Read More »GREENVILLE (AP) A federal judge says he needs more time to decide whether a traffic control plan for motorcyclists on the South Carolina coast is legal. U.S. District Judge Marvin Quattlebaum heard arguments May 8 in Greenville as the NAACP ...
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Read More »MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments this week in an NAACP lawsuit that says a traffic control plan during what’s known as “Black Bike Week” in South Carolina is discriminatory. The NAACP is seeking an ...
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Read More »MYRTLE BEACH(AP) A civil rights group is suing Myrtle Beach and its police department, saying the city discriminates against blacks by having different rules and stricter enforcement during a motorcycle festival catering to African-Americans. The national NAACP and its Myrtle ...
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Read More »COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An NAACP leader in the South Carolina county where a white police officer was sentenced to probation in the killing of a black motorist said officers need more training in how to deal with minorities. The ...
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Read More »COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The national president of the NAACP arrived in South Carolina on Monday to help lead a Statehouse rally calling for reform in the criminal justice system as leaders of the civil rights group continued a march from Selma, ...
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Read More »COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The NAACP is holding a rally at the South Carolina Statehouse to call for reform in the criminal justice system as leaders of the civil rights group continue a march from Selma, Alabama, to Washington, D.C. ...
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As lawmakers in South Carolina’s House of Representatives debated late into the evening over a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House, Columbia lawyer Joe McCulloch sat at his desk with a lawsuit that ...
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An anti-abortion group did not infringe upon the NAACP’s trademark by referring to the venerable Baltimore-based black civil rights group as the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People” in an online article, a federal appeals court has ruled. ...
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Read More »The Radiance Foundation Inc. v. Nat’s Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-088-15, 36 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 14-1568, May 19, 2015; USDC at Norfolk, Va. (Jackson, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit vacates an ...
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