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To "lie in state" (or "lie in honor") is an honor reserved for government officials and important Americans that impacted the country with their lives, like former President Jimmy Carter (above in 2025). Speaker Johnson said Rev. Jackson does not meet the standard for such an honor. (Tom Williams / Getty Images)

When legacy isn’t enough for honor

CK Smith
PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 23: Derrick Johnson onstage during the NAACP Panel: “From TV to Policy” hosted by Acura at the Acura House of Energy on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Acura)

NAACP's leader on democracy

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: Civil rights "hurt" white men

Garrett Owen
Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people learned of their freedom, is now a federal holiday. But some are hesitating to honor it amid recent rollbacks to DEI efforts and cultural programming. (Kholil Wahyudi / Getty Images)

Juneteenth: "Resilience and resistance"

CK Smith
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US President Joe Biden tours the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1, 2021. - US President Joe Biden traveled Tuesday to Oklahoma to honor the victims of a 1921 racial massacre in the city of Tulsa, where African American residents are hoping he will hear their call for financial reparations 100 years on. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

NAACP: Biden must tackle student debt

Igor Derysh
Derrick Johnson | Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

NAACP head: Why they're suing Trump

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Marine One as they depart the White House on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Trump is making his scheduled departure from the White House for Florida, several hours ahead of the inauguration ceremony for his successor Joe Biden, making him the first president in more than 150 years to refuse to attend the inauguration. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Trump sued over Capitol attack

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
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Money could change confederate minds

Christian Grose, Jordan Carr Peterson - The Conversation
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Donald Trump and Woodrow Wilson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Past failures set up today's uprisings

Elizabeth Thompson - The Conversation
People gather with balloons for a vigil in memory of Breonna Taylor on June 6, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Celebrities among 87 Louisville arrests

Roger Sollenberger
Anti-racism protests continue in New York City (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Video shows cop kneeling on man's neck

Igor Derysh
Founder and CEO of US online social media and social networking service Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook keeps hemorrhaging advertisers

Matthew Rozsa
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Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump compares impeachment to "lynching"

Igor Derysh
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

An unusual brief

Austin Sarat - The Conversation
U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee May 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Win McNamee)

Bill Barr blasted by rights advocates

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Nancy Pelosi; Elizabeth Warren (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Elizabeth Warren calls for impeachment

Matthew Rozsa
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., addresses the 110th NAACP National Convention, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Detroit. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

NAACP delegates: Impeach him

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
North Carolina State Legislative Building (Wikimedia)

N.C. court strikes down voter ID law

Igor Derysh
Demonstrators march down North Capital Street during protest march within sight of the capitol in Washington, June 14, 1963; Demonstrators protest as they celebrate the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (AP/John Rous/Getty/Joshua Lott)

Russia and racism: A brief history

Paul Rosenberg
(AP/Richard Drew)

#LogOutFacebook: NAACP fights Facebook

Matthew Rozsa
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Beto O'Rourke; Ted Cruz (AP/Salon)

Texas voting machines changing votes

Matthew Rozsa
Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Kavanaugh's "troubling" record on rights

Rachel Leah
In this March 20, 2017 photo, Rachel Dolezal poses for a photo with her son, Langston in the bureau of the Associated Press in Spokane, Wash. Dolezal, who has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, rose to prominence as a black civil rights leader, but then lost her job when her parents exposed her as being white and is now struggling to make a living. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios) (AP)

Rachel Dolezal faces 15 years in prison

Rachel Leah
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Dems' lawsuit could win them Virginia

Matthew Rozsa
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