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Biden Pushes Back on Civil Rights Critics by Playing Up His Obama Connects, While Booker Slams Biden as an ‘Architect of Mass Incarceration’
Joe Biden attempted to ward off doubts raised about his civil rights bona fides Wednesday by reminding attendees of the NAACP convention that he was Barack Obama’s pick to be his vice president. “I doubt he would have picked me if these accusations about my being wrong on civil rights is correct,” the Democratic presidential…
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NAACP Puts It to the House: Impeach Donald Trump!
Delegates to the NAACP voted unanimously Tuesday to have the nation’s oldest civil rights organization press the House to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. “This president has led one of the most racist and xenophobic administrations since the Jim Crow era,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said, CNN reports. “Trump needs to know…