A country that once made it illegal to teach enslaved Black people to read is now arguing over whether Black history itself belongs in classrooms.

The resolution, introduced by Ghana and backed by African and Caribbean nations, calls for acknowledgment of slavery’s lasting damage and identifies reparatory justice as a step toward addressing centuries of forced labor, displacement, and exploitation.

The NAACP has tapped one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys, naming Kristen Clarke as general counsel at a time the organization says demands an aggressive legal response to mounting threats against voting rights and civil liberties.

Economic strain is central to voter sentiment. Fifty-nine percent of Black voters surveyed in October 2025 said Trump’s policies had hurt them personally, up from 47 percent in April 2025.

President Trump's State of the Union was the longest in U.S. history and it ignored the chaos and division his administration has stoked.

The high-profile civil rights attorney snagged a regional Emmy for producing the short documentary “How to Sue the Klan,” a film that revisits one of the most daring courtroom takedowns of the Ku Klux Klan in modern history.

Jackson’s life traced the arc of modern civil rights history. Born October 8, 1941, in Greenville, he would become founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and one of America’s most recognizable civil rights, religious, and political figures.