JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge has dismissed one lawsuit that challenges a new law dealing with appointment of judges in the majority-Black capital city of Jackson and the surrounding county, but a separate lawsuit remains alive in federal ...

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GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) — Officials in a central North Carolina county can’t bar all protests around the local courthouse, including near where a Confederate monument stands, a federal judge has ruled. The Alamance County chapter of the NAACP and eight ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A federal judge invalidated part of North Carolina elections law that allows one voter to challenge another’s residency, a provision that activist groups used to scrub thousands of names from rolls ahead of the 2016 elections. U.S. District ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina civil rights leaders are threatening to sue the state over a recently passed law that allows mostly white communities near Charlotte to create their own charter schools and a potential new voter ID law. “Legislating state-sponsored ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The NAACP has urged religious conferences, athletic events and musicians on to avoid North Carolina as part of a national boycott protesting the state’s conservative policies including a law limiting LGBT protections. It was the first step in ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the North Carolina NAACP’s request that the state attorney general’s office investigate wrongful conviction claims (all times local): 4 p.m. Lawyers in the North Carolina attorney general’s office have met with a civil ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The president of the NAACP in North Carolina says he thinks that the state’s law requiring a photo identification to vote is unconstitutional. The Winston-Salem Journal reports the Rev. William Barber testified Tuesday in the federal trial ...

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP says the state isn’t being clear on the requirements for the new voter identification law. The Rev. William Barber told a news conference in Durham on ...

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Civil rights activists are finally going to trial later this month to challenge North Carolina’s photo identification mandate to vote just weeks before it gets implemented. The state chapter of the NAACP scheduled a news conference ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Progressive groups in North Carolina will work with faith leaders of all denominations and people of all ethnicities to sign up as many voters as possible between now and 25 days before the March primary, when registration ...

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