Tagged: NAACP

The NAACP has launched a new national campaign that calls on African Americans to withhold their athletic and financial support of public universities in Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia — states that have moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation.

Mfume is an alumnus of the university and is a former Congressman from Maryland and the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Upon hearing of Payton’s death, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous stated, “John Payton was one of the greatest civil rights lawyers our nation has ever had and our world has ever known.”

The complaint was filed by local clergy and the Albuquerque chapter of the NAACP.