The NAACP got other Jim Crow laws systematically overturned* before bringing Brown v Board (1954), in which SCOTUS ruled to overturn the separate but equal doctrine. Special Ed laws were enacted later on due to Brown.
*I learned about the NAACP's legal strategy from a PBS documentary on Brown.
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*I learned about the NAACP's legal strategy from a PBS documentary on Brown.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The NAACP got other Jim Crow laws systematically overturned* before bringing Brown v Board (1954), in which SCOTUS ruled to overturn the separate but equal doctrine. Special Ed laws were enacted later on due to Brown.
*I learned about the NAACP's legal strategy from a PBS documentary on Brown.
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*I learned about the NAACP's legal strategy from a PBS documentary on Brown.
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NAACP Slams AT&T DEI Rollback As ‘Anti-Growth,’ Warns It Abandons Black Consumers And Workers (Black Enterprise)
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Morton was progressive on race where Lovecraft was conservative; James F. Morton was an early member of the NAACP and had authored a tract on "The Curse of Race Prejudice" which you can still read today. They were in a discussion on such matters when HPL brought Keith's polygenism into it.
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Morton was progressive on race where Lovecraft was conservative; James F. Morton was an early member of the NAACP and had authored a tract on "The Curse of Race Prejudice" which you can still read today. They were in a discussion on such matters when HPL brought Keith's polygenism into it.
I think the visceral disgust we rightly react to it with today makes it like trying to study an eclipse with the naked eye—it is literally impossible for me to get in this headspace.
![The inclusion of such a number was never in doubt.
Berlin loved minstrelsy and incorporated blackface whenever he could to furnish rhythmic pep, nostalgia, or sen-timent. In one early treatment, he proposed "Abraham" as a showcase for Bing "to use his ability as a dialectician in the form of a colored preacher [for] a light humorous spiritual, singing the praises of the Great Emancipator."IZ Berlin and Sandrich considered the sequence racially sympathetic, and no one else questioned it either, certainly not the Breen office. Berlin's lyric humanized Abe as "a most respected gent" who brushed aside reports of General Grant's drunkenness ("Get all my gen'rals tight") and, above all, set "the darky free." Sandrich wanted to stage the scene in a black church, an idea that wasn't feasible due to budgetary restrictions. Instead, he had the inn's waiters and musicians black up too. Even so, they thought of themselves as upright, NAACP-supporting racial progressives whose acuity as showmen was validated by the critical and popular enthusiasm "Abraham" gener-ated. How bewildered they would have been to learn that, before long, that scene would be censored, mocked, and condemned as unfit for general viewing. After the picture opened and Bing's recording of "Abraham" hit stores, Time reported, "Negro editors reach for their editorial shotgun," referring to an editorial in the Baltimore Afro-American protesting "the term 'd—y' [as] offensive to colored people." Berlin apologized immediately and ordered the word changed to Negro in all future editions of the sheet music. "I should never have released it had I known the epithet was objectionable," he told Time. Yet the editorial writer didn't protest the blackface, still practiced by comedians of both races. Bing would black up twice more during the war.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4kp46csqgvegknx353n6gfja/bafkreibzmdzaloj4az5o35qvs7aktnpwt3cjspq2cqk3kvbecc2gl5nsna@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think the visceral disgust we rightly react to it with today makes it like trying to study an eclipse with the naked eye—it is literally impossible for me to get in this headspace.
“They’re breaking people,” said Phyllis Gant, a longtime leader of the NAACP chapter in this northwest Texas city, referring to local schools’ treatment of Black children. “It’s just open season on our students.”
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Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
Parents say racist incidents are going unchecked after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights retreated from investigating schools in Lubbock County, Texas.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“They’re breaking people,” said Phyllis Gant, a longtime leader of the NAACP chapter in this northwest Texas city, referring to local schools’ treatment of Black children. “It’s just open season on our students.”
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MUST READ: “They’re breaking people,” said Phyllis Gant, a longtime leader of the NAACP chapter in this northwest Texas city, referring to local schools’ treatment of Black children. “It’s just open season on our students.”
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Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
Parents say racist incidents are going unchecked after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights retreated from investigating schools in Lubbock County, Texas.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
MUST READ: “They’re breaking people,” said Phyllis Gant, a longtime leader of the NAACP chapter in this northwest Texas city, referring to local schools’ treatment of Black children. “It’s just open season on our students.”
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The NAACP joke still takes me out!!🤣
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The NAACP joke still takes me out!!🤣
induction into the Vocal Group, Rock & Roll, and NAACP Image Award Halls of Fame. White was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010. Maurice White died in 2016 from the effects of Parkinson's disease
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
induction into the Vocal Group, Rock & Roll, and NAACP Image Award Halls of Fame. White was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010. Maurice White died in 2016 from the effects of Parkinson's disease
This. This and then two decades later, the NAACP protested this and Gone with the Wind. It is rare that you don't see a piece of film or art that had a big cultural impact and had large components that were racist where contemporary people did not protest or at minimum write about and critique.
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This. This and then two decades later, the NAACP protested this and Gone with the Wind. It is rare that you don't see a piece of film or art that had a big cultural impact and had large components that were racist where contemporary people did not protest or at minimum write about and critique.
Delaware, Hawaii voters push back against DOJ data grab
Two Delaware voters filed a motion to intervene as defendants in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking the state’s complete voter registration database.
The NAACP California-Hawaii State Conference filed a motion
Two Delaware voters filed a motion to intervene as defendants in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking the state’s complete voter registration database.
The NAACP California-Hawaii State Conference filed a motion
December 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Delaware, Hawaii voters push back against DOJ data grab
Two Delaware voters filed a motion to intervene as defendants in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking the state’s complete voter registration database.
The NAACP California-Hawaii State Conference filed a motion
Two Delaware voters filed a motion to intervene as defendants in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking the state’s complete voter registration database.
The NAACP California-Hawaii State Conference filed a motion
Song Of The South was actually one of the first postwar tentative shows of competing strength (very relatively speaking, of course) from groups like the NAACP bsky.app/profile/angu...
I remember that once on Twitter someone told me that Song of the South is “now considered racist,” so I looked it up and sure enough, the NAACP had picketed the premiere.
People in the olden days had eyes.
People in the olden days had eyes.
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Song Of The South was actually one of the first postwar tentative shows of competing strength (very relatively speaking, of course) from groups like the NAACP bsky.app/profile/angu...
Protesting it being played in various theaters around the country was the first nationwide protest the NAACP ever organized, from what I can find.
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Protesting it being played in various theaters around the country was the first nationwide protest the NAACP ever organized, from what I can find.
I remember that once on Twitter someone told me that Song of the South is “now considered racist,” so I looked it up and sure enough, the NAACP had picketed the premiere.
People in the olden days had eyes.
People in the olden days had eyes.
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I remember that once on Twitter someone told me that Song of the South is “now considered racist,” so I looked it up and sure enough, the NAACP had picketed the premiere.
People in the olden days had eyes.
People in the olden days had eyes.
Looks like some atrocious Ralph Bakshi animated movie where this alien gives sex and dating advice, occasionally doing rap interludes so horrific that the NAACP protested theatres.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Looks like some atrocious Ralph Bakshi animated movie where this alien gives sex and dating advice, occasionally doing rap interludes so horrific that the NAACP protested theatres.
Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no…
LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no…
Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no consequence, his mom said. A Black 12-year-old boy, falsely accused last December of touching a white girl’s breast, was threatened and interrogated by a police officer at school without his parents and sentenced to a disciplinary alternative school for a month, his grandfather recounted. A Black honors student was wrongly accused by a white teacher of having a vape (it was a pencil sharpener) and sentenced to the alternative school for a month this fall, her mom said.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no…
LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no…
Organizations from the local NAACP branch to individual therapists gathered in Stockton Thursday to share that they are here for support.
Stockton mental health leaders gather to share support options weeks after mass shooting
Organizations from the local NAACP branch to individual therapists gathered in Stockton Thursday to share that they are here for support.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Organizations from the local NAACP branch to individual therapists gathered in Stockton Thursday to share that they are here for support.
Davis and Ruby Dee were central figures in the Civil Rights Movement, working with organizations such as the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They were instrumental in organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and served as its masters of ceremonies. /6
December 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Davis and Ruby Dee were central figures in the Civil Rights Movement, working with organizations such as the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They were instrumental in organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and served as its masters of ceremonies. /6
OK NAACP with the ads. *smirks*
Y'all (no, not you. The other you.) better donate. And volunteer. Because folks (yes) have been working. Quietly. Offline.
Get active.
Y'all (no, not you. The other you.) better donate. And volunteer. Because folks (yes) have been working. Quietly. Offline.
Get active.
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
OK NAACP with the ads. *smirks*
Y'all (no, not you. The other you.) better donate. And volunteer. Because folks (yes) have been working. Quietly. Offline.
Get active.
Y'all (no, not you. The other you.) better donate. And volunteer. Because folks (yes) have been working. Quietly. Offline.
Get active.
1971 - The NAACP Spingarn Medal was presented to Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OIC) for his leadership.
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
1971 - The NAACP Spingarn Medal was presented to Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OIC) for his leadership.
Johns was 16 years old in 1951 when she led a student strike for equal education at RR Moton High School in Farmville, Va.
NAACP lawyers, who filed a lawsuit that would become one of the five cases that the US supreme court reviewed in the 1954 landmark Brown v Board of Education case.
NAACP lawyers, who filed a lawsuit that would become one of the five cases that the US supreme court reviewed in the 1954 landmark Brown v Board of Education case.
December 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Johns was 16 years old in 1951 when she led a student strike for equal education at RR Moton High School in Farmville, Va.
NAACP lawyers, who filed a lawsuit that would become one of the five cases that the US supreme court reviewed in the 1954 landmark Brown v Board of Education case.
NAACP lawyers, who filed a lawsuit that would become one of the five cases that the US supreme court reviewed in the 1954 landmark Brown v Board of Education case.
1975 - The NAACP Spingarn Medal was presented to Henry ("Hank") Aaron "for his memorable home-run record which stands as a landmark" and for his sportsmanship.
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
1975 - The NAACP Spingarn Medal was presented to Henry ("Hank") Aaron "for his memorable home-run record which stands as a landmark" and for his sportsmanship.
"I wonder if he's old enough to remember who it was who started AND funded the
NAACP??"
NAACP??"
a man with a beard says probably not in yellow letters on a white background
ALT: a man with a beard says probably not in yellow letters on a white background
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December 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"I wonder if he's old enough to remember who it was who started AND funded the
NAACP??"
NAACP??"
What's next? Donnie will make himself head of the NAACP and KKKaroline will be congratulating MLK Jr!
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
What's next? Donnie will make himself head of the NAACP and KKKaroline will be congratulating MLK Jr!
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM