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Media giant Comcast will commit $100 million to a three-year plan aimed at promoting social justice causes, including grants to the NAACP, in the wake of the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, the company announced on Monday.

Business review site Yelp announces that it will provide a special search feature on its platform so that users can limit their results to black-owned businesses.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been criticized by civil rights leaders and faced internal turmoil with employees over his decision on how to handle President Donald Trump’s posts on his platform. Civil rights groups issued a joint statement after meeting with Zuckerberg stating: “We are disappointed and stunned by Mark’s incomprehensible explanations for allowing the Trump posts to remain up.”

Trump’s rhetoric is combative and over-the-top. Yet his actions, as usual, not only obey the First Amendment, but also reinforce it. Biden would do the opposite.

The NAACP responded to Joe Biden’s claim by noting that it had never endorsed him, and that it does not endorse political candidates in an official capacity.

Wednesday on “MSNBC Live,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson sounded off on the 2020 presidential race following former Vice President Joe Biden strengthening his lead against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the night before.

Amy Klobuchar, who once served as Hennepin County’s district attorney, has received support from the current county’s attorney after it was reported earlier this year that the Minnesota senator worked to put a teenager behind bars for life with little to no concrete evidence.

Multiple racial justice groups have called on White House hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to suspend her presidential campaign after a story from the Associated Press highlighted her role in a case during her time as Hennepin County’s district attorney.

Freshman lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) participated in an NAACP forum Wednesday evening where she proudly declared that “the squad” — the nickname given to her, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — is not an “insurgent cohort,” but representative of the American people.

The far-left members of the “Squad” participated in an NAACP forum and declared that members of the Republican Party are “scared” of them “because they know how powerful” they are.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a non-profit based in Chicago that helps separated migrant children, announced Wednesday that they had both received a $1 million gift from Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.

Actor Danny Glover is joining the growing chorus of prominent black activists who are opposed to covering a mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco, an artist and critic of the country’s Founding Fathers painted in 1936.

The Chairman of the NAACP board of directors on Saturday said President Donald Trump should be impeached for his “vile racist attack” on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the “despicable” attacks on Baltimore.

Democrat presidential hopeful Julián Castro spoke at the NAACP annual convention in Detroit this week and claimed, “we’re going to have to raise taxes” and “repeal and replace” the GOP tax cuts.

Former Vice President Joe Biden punched back at Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) for calling him the “architect of mass incarceration.”

The NAACP announced Tuesday that delegates voted unanimously to call for impeachment proceedings to begin against President Donald Trump. 

The mayor of Detroit, Michigan, is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of his city hosting the second Democrat presidential debate next week.

Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke at the NAACP convention over the weekend and railed against the GOP tax cuts in a pitch for her anti-poverty BOOST Act, promising to take money from the rich and give it “back to the people that earned it.”

Justice Democrats, the group that was formed by Sanders campaign staffers, slammed Biden’s busing remarks during the second Democrat debate.

Former Vice President Joe Biden told black leaders to “move beyond” the issue of busing to desegregate public schools ahead of his first presidential run.

Democrats are holding a press conference at the Capitol to push for “additional protections” for voting rights ahead of the 2020 election.

Progressive organizations, many financed by billionaire activist George Soros, are working overtime to restore voting rights for Florida’s nearly 1.4 million ex-felons as the nation’s biggest swing state seems poised to play a pivotal electoral role in the 2020 presidential race.

Texas Tech University Medical School announced this week that they will no longer consider race as a factor in the admissions process.

David Hogg accused President Donald Trump of supporting “terrorism” against black churches on Monday because Trump had not tweeted about the three historically black churches that recently burned down in Louisiana.

As top 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls prepared to take the stage this week at the 2019 We The People summit in Washington, DC, the event began with the crowd chanting words from a convicted cop-killer.

Actor Chris Rock slammed Jussie Smollett at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards on Saturday, declaring that the embattled “Empire” star had lost his respect. 

“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett didn’t win an NAACP Image Award this weekend, capping off a chaotic week where the star had felony charges against him dropped by Cook County prosecutors.

Actor and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) awards host Anthony Anderson has revealed he is happy that the “system worked” for Empire star Jussie Smollett, after prosecutors in Chicago decided to drop charges against him of faking a hate crime against himself. 

Project 21, a national Black Leadership Network of conservatives, is calling on the NAACP to rescind its Image Award nomination for actor Jussie Smollet, who is being prosecuted for allegedly faking a hate crime in Chicago.

The Greater Hartford, Connecticut, branch of the NAACP called for Simsbury residents to “pack” a board of education meeting Tuesday night after a photo seeming to show two high school students in “blackface” appeared on social media.

CNN anchor Don Lemon on Wednesday evening admitted that “certain groups of people” like “black folks” and “gay folks” wanted to believe Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s story about being attacked by racist supporters of President Donald Trump even though they were highly skeptical of his claims.

The department launched an urgent investigation into Jussie Smollett’s allegations in January, including a search through footage from surveillance cameras from an entire neighborhood over several weeks.

Weeks after “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett made allegations that he was violently beaten by men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs at him, placed a rope around his neck like a noose, and shouted, “This is MAGA country,” local authorities suspect Smollett of orchestrating the attack.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson said over the weekend that President Donald Trump should resign in response to the Ku Klux Klan(KKK)/blackface controversy engulfing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D).

Voices on the left calling for Democrat Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign are piling up, after a medical school yearbook photo of him in black face or a KKK robe surfaced on Friday.

NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson issued a statement Tuesday afternoon specifically blaming Trump’s “racist and xenophobic rhetoric” for the alleged attack on Jussie Smollett.