Janai Nelson

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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Janai Nelson is Associate Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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Three major appointments we announced this morning by the Trump transition team: Alabama Senator and hardliner Jeff Sessions for Attorney General; Kansas Republican Congressman Mike…

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Last Friday in Beverly Hills, California, TV producer Charles Belk—a 51-year old black man—was on his way to a pre-Emmy awards party.

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