It’s been a mystery for months. Students and staff at Nichols Junior High in Arlington have been saying that something in the school has been making them sick: Now, the Arlington NAACP has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to shutter the school until the district can provide answers. “It’s a human rights and a civil rights issue,” says …
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a statement of interest in the NAACP lawsuit challenging elections boards in three North Carolina counties where voters complain they were inaccurately purged from voter rolls. The NAACP went to federal court in Winston-Salem on Wednesday seeking intervention from U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs. In their lawsuit filed Monday, the NAACP and voters from …
The North Carolina NAACP claims Republicans are trying to suppress the minority vote in the Tar Heel State. So, group is suing the state to stop county election boards from marking voter registrations void. Election officials felt the need to cancel several registrations because mailings to voters’ addresses came back as undeliverable.