NAACP call for SEC boycott could be game changer
The campaign urges Black recruits to skip SEC schools and directs fans and alumni to support HBCUs as lawmakers redraw districts.
- Last week, the NAACP launched its 'Out of Bounds' campaign, urging Black athletes to boycott public universities in eight Southern states where legislatures have restricted Black voting rights following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.
- Targeting SEC programs reaping more than $100 million annually, the initiative aims to pressure states that have 'moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation' through aggressive redistricting following the court's decision.
- Campaign demands include recruits withholding commitments from targeted schools, current athletes elevating the issue on their platforms, and fans redirecting spending toward Historically Black Colleges and Universities instead of purchasing merchandise from SEC programs.
- The Congressional Black Caucus supports the boycott, though commentators question the ethics of asking young student-athletes to sacrifice their futures when adults and civil rights organizations have failed to protect voting rights.
- Reliance on student-athletes risks turning them into 'sacrificial messengers' for a democracy in crisis, as critics note that effective change requires serious infrastructure and adult accountability rather than just youth protest.
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Charles Hallman examines the NFL's rollback of minority hiring mandates under pressure from Florida's attorney general, and the NAACP's new Out of Bounds campaign calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott SEC programs in states targeting Black voting rights. The post The NFL blinked. Now what? appeared first on Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
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Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black child at play on the cover to signal what the Black freedom struggle was …
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The NAACP Is Asking Black Teenagers To Save Black Voting Rights Because Generations Of Adults Failed To Protect Them
Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black child at play on the cover to signal what the Black freedom struggle was …
NAACP call for SEC boycott could be game changer
Sports, from youth leagues, to recreational, to college, to pro are ways to escape the political and social turmoil that grips our nation. Team A against Team B should have a path clear of Black against white, red against blue, them against us. But the rules governing this game have changed. The national NAACP, with support of the Congressional Black Caucus, is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott public universities in states where Rep…
NAACP calls for sports boycott in states where voting rights are threatened
NPR's Juana Summers talks with NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson about his organization's Out of Bounds campaign that draws a connection between Black student athletes and voting rights.
Curtis Hill: As a Lifetime NAACP Member, It Is 'Out of Bounds' for Playing Politics With Football
“What does college football have to do with redistricting? Absolutely nothing,” writes Curtis Hill, former Indiana attorney general, who now serves as both a Senior Advisor to our Free Enterprise Project and an ambassador with the Project 21 black leadership network. And yet the NAACP is trying to “pressure Black athletes, fans, and donors to boycott college football programs in southern states over congressional redistricting disputes…. This is…
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