WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE

Watch the Convention Coverage:

• MSNBC: Hardball With Chris Matthews
• CNN: CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
• CBS: Why NAACP’s call for impeachment is significant
• NBC: Dems Blast President Donald Trump At NAACP Convention
• Now This: NAACP Calls for Impeachment

NAACP in the News:

C-SPAN: NAACP Convention in Detroit
Ten 2020 presidential candidates, including Republican Bill Weld, spoke at the NAACP Annual Convention in Detroit.

NPR: 2020 Democratic Presidential Contenders Address the NAACP
Ten presidential candidates spoke to the NAACP in Detroit today. Now, Democrats have sparred over issues of racial justice in recent weeks, and there was some of that today. But many of the candidates said the biggest threat to racial justice, as they see it, is President Trump. NPR’s Asma Khalid reports.

Out & About: NAACP Votes Unanimously on 3 Pro-LGBTQ resolutions
Last week, on July 23, 2019, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, voted unanimously on 3 pro-LGBTQ resolutions with far reaching impact on their 2,000+ units/chapters across the country. The NAACP was a champion for marriage equality and remains a strong advocate for the Equality Act and is now taking action to do deeper work with their units and chapters to invoke change locally.

Teen Vogue: These Progressive Prosecutors Want to Reshape Justice in Major American Cities
The NAACP notes that Black Americans are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of whites. In 2015, 56% of all incarcerated people were Black and Latinx, though they made up only 32% of the U.S. population. These bleak, overwhelming statistics are the rallying cries of activists calling out the injustices in the U.S. justice system.

Outtake: NAACP Passes LGBTQ Resolutions
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) voted unanimously on 3 pro-LGBTQ resolutions with far reaching impact on their 2,000+ units/chapters across the country. The NAACP was a champion for marriage equality & remains a strong advocate for the Equality Act & is now taking action to do deeper work with their units & chapters to invoke change locally.

The Crisis: Open Society Leader Patrick Gaspard is 2019 Spingarn Medal Recipient
When it comes to human rights, Patrick Gaspard is no stranger to wildfires. At any given time, he’s closely monitoring the latest developments from a slew of global flashpoints as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a New York City-based philanthropic network that supports a range of pro-democracy causes worldwide.

NPR: NAACP Plans To Push Back Against Trump’s Racist Tweets
The NAACP is holding its national convention in Detroit today. It’s going to host some of the Democratic presidential candidates. Leaders of that group have called for President Trump to be impeached. They say they’re going to push back hard against a president who tweets racist remarks. From member station WDET, Quinn Klinefelter has the story.

News 9: NAACP And ACLU Call For Change As Voters Are Labeled Inactive
Civil rights leaders are calling for the Oklahoma State Election Board to halt what they call a purge of voter rolls, saying it disproportionately effects minority voters. “Let’s work with the constituents of this state to make sure everybody has the right to vote,” Oklahoma NAACP President Anthony Douglas said.

International Business Times: Michelle Obama Claps Back At Trump Over Baltimore Tweets: ‘So Proud Of You All’
The Maryland chapter of the NAACP dubbed Trump’s tweets racist and called for launching impeachment proceedings against Trump. "These latest tweets reaffirm the NAACP Maryland State Conference’s (MSC) position echoing the call of the National NAACP that this president must be impeached," said NAACP MSC President Gerald Stansbury.

Baltimore Sun: A young Elijah Cummings faced hate when integrating a Baltimore pool. Today, Trump’s tweets reopen old wounds.
"Some of us had more nerve than we had good sense,” said civil rights activist Walter Black, 83, who helped lead Cummings and the other elementary school kids to the pool as a 26-year-old staff member of the NAACP. Among the leaders of the pool integration was the NAACP’s Juanita Jackson Mitchell, the first black woman to practice law in Maryland and the wife of pioneering NAACP leader Clarence Mitchell Jr.

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