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The NAACP on Tuesday led a group of civil rights organizations in calling for President Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, a former state’s attorney for Baltimore, Md.  Mosby was convicted in February on a federal charge of making a false mortgage application in order to secure a lower interest rate. The conviction followed a November 2023 conviction on…

The NAACP is urging the Department of Justice to investigate the death of Jim Rogers, a 54-year-old Black man who died in an October 2021 encounter with a Pittsburgh police officer. Rogers passed away the day after police officer Keith Edmonds repeatedly shocked him with a taser. 'Jim Rogers deserved better, and Black America…

Alabama’s Republican-led legislature passed a new measure to ban state funding of diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public universities, local boards of education and government agencies.  The legislation limits teaching “divisive concepts” about race and gender and prohibits transgender students from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity at public universities and colleges.  Under…