Gov. Reeves Criticizes ‘So-Called Experts’ After Top Doctors Call for Statewide Mask Mandate
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves lashed out today at “so-called experts” in the medical field as he continued to defy their pleas for him to reissue a statewide mask mandate.
Multiracial Anti-Lynching Activists Formed the NAACP in 1909, But It Wasn’t Black-Led Until 1920
An interracial group of women and men founded the group that would soon become known as the NAACP in 1909. A coalition of white journalists, lawyers and progressive reformers led the effort. It would take another 11 years until, in 1920, James Weldon Johnson became the first Black person to formally serve as its top official.
