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The xAI data center is seen, May 7, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., center, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak outside the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights

A protestor stands outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

Sasha Dix holds his, "I voted," sticker after voting at T.C. Roberson High School on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, in Asheville, N.C. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)

North Carolina’s photo voter ID mandate can continue as a judge upholds the law

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

The NAACP names ex-DOJ civil rights chief Kristen Clarke as its top lawyer

Conservatives and Trump admin target decades-old pillar of environmental enforcement

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has expanded executive power, raising concerns about the future of citizen suits, which critics argue are essential for holding polluters accountable, especially when government resources are limited.

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Voting rights activists protest redistricting at Mississippi rally

Congressman promises to sue over Tennessee’s new US House map

Racist text messages referencing slavery raise alarms in multiple states

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FBI agents are seen at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga, near Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

NAACP asks judge to protect against ‘misuse’ of voter data seized by FBI in Georgia’s Fulton County

This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Michael B. Jordan, foreground from left, Michael B. Jordan and Omar Benson Miller in a scene from "Sinners." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

‘Sinners’ leads movie nominations for NAACP Image Awards

People attend a service at St. James Church, where Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II was once pastor and is now facing an uphill reelection battle after the Missouri legislature redrew maps to to divide Clever's congressional district among three districts, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Trump redistricting push threatens minority representation. Black voters worry about its impact

A Super Tuesday voter walks past a sign requiring a photo ID at a polling location, March 5, 2024, in Mount Holly, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

North Carolina voter ID and tax cap amendments are enforceable, judges rule

Texas state Rep. Suleman Lalani, D-Sugarland, speaks against a redrawn U.S. congressional map during a special session, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas election map for 2026 is racially biased, voting-rights advocates say in lawsuit

FILE = The xAI data center is seen, May 7, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)

NAACP, environmental group notify Elon Musk’s xAI company of intent to sue over facility pollution

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, Sunday, June 15, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., for a trip to Canada to attend the G7 Summit. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Donald Trump is the first president in 116 years to not be invited to the NAACP convention

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, speaks before President Joe Biden arrives at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Head of NAACP disinvited from speaking to Texas state bar over suit against Trump administration

Federal judges hear arguments from NAACP, state officials over new legislative districts

New York NAACP President Hazel Dukes speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Lifelong New York civil rights advocate and NAACP leader Hazel Dukes dies at 92

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., appears on stage at the 50th annual NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, March 30, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Former Vice President Kamala Harris to be honored by NAACP with its Chairman’s Award

A community member holds a sign calling for a national boycott of Target stores during a news conference outside Target Corporation's headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt, File)

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

FILE - People voicing their opposition to Mississippi House Bill 1020 wear protest t-shirts as they gathered on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

The NAACP ends its challenge over Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city

FILE - Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner poses for a portrait in Hartford, Conn., on Jan. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

First popularly elected Black mayor in New England, Thirman Milner, has died at 91

NAACP fund seeks to close Black voter registration and turnout gaps ahead of the November election

This photo provided by Deborah Menkart shows Dorie Ladner at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum, May 16, 2015, in Washington. Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and voter registration drives, has died, her family confirmed. “My beloved sister, Dorie Ladner, died peacefully on Monday, March 11, 2024,” her younger sister, Joyce Ladner, wrote on Facebook. (Deborah Menkart via AP)

Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist who fought for justice in Mississippi and beyond, dies at 81

Metro High School students leave the building as a fleet of Missouri Central school busses line up to transport some after dismissal, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis Public Schools said driver walkouts at Missouri Central left 56 routes uncovered Tuesday morning, and caused the school district to cancel after school activities for the second day in a row. A Black mechanic for the company that provides school bus services for the St. Louis school district said he found a noose at his workstation, leading at least 100 drivers to stop work in a show of support. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

A work stoppage to support a mechanic who found a noose is snarling school bus service in St. Louis

Jeff Geffrard breaks down while speaking about his son during a news conference at the Broward Public Defender's Office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. "I want to know what happened to my son," he said of Janard Geffrard, 29, who was beaten to death in the Broward Main Jail by a man who was awaiting trial on a vehicle theft charge and probation violations. According to Public Defender Gordon Weekes, there have been 21 deaths in the jail since 2019. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

NAACP seeks federal probe of Florida county’s jail system following deaths

FILE - A man walks in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Jan. 7, 2015, in New Orleans. The federal appeals court has temporarily delayed Mississippi officials from creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, Miss., even though a federal district court judge dismissed requests to block the new court in a ruling filed late Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, File)

Federal appeals court temporarily delays new state-run court in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital

FILE - U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate smiles, Aug. 19, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Wingate ruled Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, that he will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Judge allows new court in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital, rejecting NAACP request to stop it

FILE - NAACP Virginia President Robert N. Barnette Jr. speaks near the Virginia Capitol, July 18, 2023, in Richmond, Va. From left, Denise Harrington, Gaylene Kanoyton, Barnette and Karen Jones attended the news conference. The Virginia NAACP said Monday, Nov. 6, that Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration lacks clear standards for how it restores voting rights for convicted felons who served their sentences, leaving many frustrated and unable to vote in the nationally watched state elections on Tuesday, Nov. 7. (Daniel Sangjib Min/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, File)

Youngkin and NAACP spar over felony voting rights ahead of decisive Virginia elections

White supremacist banners appear in Louisiana’s capital city

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 photo, older and newer generations of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity pose for a photograph during the Hall-Archer-Pickard Naming Celebration at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the U.S. says it is relocating a planned convention in two years from Florida because of what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration's “harmful, racist and insensitive” policies towards African Americans. (Kaytie Boomer/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)

Historically Black fraternity drops Florida for convention because of DeSantis policies

FILE - A carving on Stone Mountain honoring Confederate generals is shown on Monday, May 24, 2021, in Stone Mountain, Ga. Civil rights groups are blasting a concert series with Black performers dubbed “Soul Fest” at a Georgia park with a giant carving of Confederate leaders. Stone Mountain Park just outside Atlanta is where the Ku Klux Klan marked its rebirth in 1915. Its colossal, mountainside sculpture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is the largest Confederate monument ever crafted. AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Civil rights groups condemn ‘Soul Fest’ concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving

Rebecca Lucero, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, front, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, arrive for a press conference announcing approval of a sweeping plan to reform policing that aims to reverse years of systemic racial bias Friday, March 31, 2023 at the Minneapolis Public Service Building in Minneapolis, The Minneapolis City Council on Friday approved an agreement with the state to revamp policing, nearly three years after a city officer killed George Floyd. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)

Minneapolis NAACP sues city over police spying allegations

FILE - A masked man passes Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta, May 20, 2020. A group of Democrats and the NAACP said Wednesday, March 8, 2023, that they had filed complaints with the federal government that Wellstar Health System violated federal anti-discrimination laws and its nonprofit status when it closed the Atlanta hospital in 2022, citing losses. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Atlanta hospital closure inquiry sought by Georgia Democrats

FILE - Serena Williams arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2022. Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend. The NAACP announced Thursday that Williams will receive the Jackie Robinson Sports award during the ceremony, which will air Saturday on BET. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Serena Williams to receive honor at NAACP Image Awards

FILE - The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, then-president of the North Carolina NAACP, crumples up a mailer which tells voters that IDs are needed in the upcoming 2020 election during a news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 27, 2019. The civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide after being found in his Greensboro home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound last summer, according to an autopsy released Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP, File)

Autopsy: Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide

FILE - This booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Leonard Taylor. Attorneys for Taylor, a Missouri man scheduled to be executed in February 2023, are seeking a new hearing, citing sworn statements they call “clear and convincing evidence” that he did not kill his girlfriend and her three children. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Missouri governor denies clemency for man facing execution

FILE - Betsy Segui, center, and Luis Rivera, right, enter the courthouse in New Haven, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Five Connecticut police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday, jan. 11, 2023, to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in a police van with no seat belts when the driver braked hard. The New Haven officers entered the pleas during their second appearances in state court since being arrested in November in connection with the injuries suffered by Richard "Randy" Cox, who is paralyzed from the chest down. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Officers plead not guilty in police van paralysis case

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