Monday, November 2, 2026News that matters to Black communities
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The order, which the NAACP helped win, expires Nov. 16 and bars the Justice Department from pressing officials to purge voters or set ballots aside
The Justice Department's deployment is more than three times the 289 monitors it sent in 2022, and the NAACP says it is built to intimidate voters of color.
At the NAACP's Atlanta town hall, five days before the midterms, the former vice president also called for revisiting the Electoral College
The Justice Department's first sworn account of who its election monitors are comes four days before the midterms, as the NAACP says Black voters already feel watched.
The company is offering to purchase up to 418 houses near its Mississippi power plant, while the NAACP says the turbines pollute majority-Black communities
Bristol Borough's council president says the display breaks no ordinance, while the Bucks County NAACP says "intent does not erase impact"
The city's NAACP branch says "in 2026" people still think white sheets are a costume. The police chief says free expression has limits.
Two NAACP lawsuits say sending federal law enforcement to polling places is voter intimidation. The administration says agents would go only for a specific threat.
One week before Election Day, the NAACP's new dashboard maps 2,770 data centers, built or planned, and asks candidates in 17 states about them
A federal judge blocked DHS door-knocking in nine states, Georgia among them. The NAACP says Black voters are afraid to vote.
The group says 52,000 volunteers signed up to protect voters, in a year after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act
