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One High Point, One Community: Transforming Youth Unity Rally

The High Point NAACP Youth Council (HPYC Unit 59i1) and the High Point NAACP Religious Affairs Committee are excited to announce the upcoming Transforming Youth Unity Rally. This special event is scheduled for Saturday, June 22nd, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the...

CELEBRATING: EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN WHO MAKE ADIFFERENCE “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” CORONATION ~~ MOTHER’S DAY TEA

Join us as we celebrate elegance and inspiration at the “Exceptional Women Who Make A Difference” Mother’s Day Tea presented by the Women in NAACP (WIN) of the High Point Branch. This prestigious event will take place at the Golden Doors Event Center in High Point,...

Black Agenda Healthcare Forum

NAACP High Point Branch Presents: Black Agenda Healthcare Forum When: Thursday, April 04 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Where: Williams Memorial CME Church, 3400 Triangle Lake Rd, High Point, NC 27260 Format: Hybrid In-Person and Online Panel Discussion with Q&A Live Stream...

High Point NAACP Achieves 2023 Branch of the Year

The education, advocacy, and actions of the High Point Branch NAACP,  #5405B,  was recognized at the 80th Annual NAACP State Convention,  held September 28-30, 2023, in Wilmington NC. Our High Point University Collegiate Chapter was present to celebrate with us. The...

High Point City Council Pass Recommendations ~ One High Point Commission on Reparations

The High Point Branch of the NAACP announces, “High Point City Council passes recommendations by the One High Point Commission on Reparations.”  The recommendations are based on quantifiable data submitted by subject matter experts. To review the data presented by the...

NAACP Shirts for Sale

Print this order form You may submit your filled order form with your payment or email it back using the email address on the bottom of the form. Use the link below to pay and upload your order form....

SB 747 (Omnibus Elections Bill) Problematic, Discriminatory, and Suppresses the Vote

Our democracy is based on freedom, fairness, and choice. But here in North Carolina, a power grab is upon us. Extremists who want control over our elections are pushing for legislation that would limit our freedom to vote and diminish our voices. Our election process...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates Medicaid Unwinding Problematic for the Most Vulnerable

With the national emergency declaration ending May 11, 2023, another national emergency evolves – more than half of those with Medicaid coverage will be terminated (3 million African Americans, 5 million Latinos, 1 million Asian and Pacific Islanders).  The first...

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates “Tell Your NC Representatives to Reject SB 747.”

This anti-voter bill would inject needless meddling by extremists who seek to limit access to the ballot box. The so-called N. C. Election Integrity Network is up to “no good.”    Senate Bill 747 Would: Allow anyone to violate privacy and challenge legitimate...

Celebration of Father’s Day

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us as we pay tribute to our community’s most courageousgentlemen. The men of honor in our lives who have made significant contributions to our families, our churches, and our community. During the Father’s Day...
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One High Point, One Community: Transforming Youth Unity Rally

The High Point NAACP Youth Council (HPYC Unit 59i1) and the High Point NAACP Religious Affairs Committee are excited to announce the upcoming Transforming Youth Unity Rally. This special event is scheduled for Saturday, June 22nd, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the...

CELEBRATING: EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN WHO MAKE ADIFFERENCE “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” CORONATION ~~ MOTHER’S DAY TEA

Join us as we celebrate elegance and inspiration at the “Exceptional Women Who Make A Difference” Mother’s Day Tea presented by the Women in NAACP (WIN) of the High Point Branch. This prestigious event will take place at the Golden Doors Event Center in High Point,...

Black Agenda Healthcare Forum

NAACP High Point Branch Presents: Black Agenda Healthcare Forum When: Thursday, April 04 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Where: Williams Memorial CME Church, 3400 Triangle Lake Rd, High Point, NC 27260 Format: Hybrid In-Person and Online Panel Discussion with Q&A Live Stream...

High Point NAACP Achieves 2023 Branch of the Year

The education, advocacy, and actions of the High Point Branch NAACP,  #5405B,  was recognized at the 80th Annual NAACP State Convention,  held September 28-30, 2023, in Wilmington NC. Our High Point University Collegiate Chapter was present to celebrate with us. The...

High Point City Council Pass Recommendations ~ One High Point Commission on Reparations

The High Point Branch of the NAACP announces, “High Point City Council passes recommendations by the One High Point Commission on Reparations.”  The recommendations are based on quantifiable data submitted by subject matter experts. To review the data presented by the...

NAACP Shirts for Sale

Print this order form You may submit your filled order form with your payment or email it back using the email address on the bottom of the form. Use the link below to pay and upload your order form....

SB 747 (Omnibus Elections Bill) Problematic, Discriminatory, and Suppresses the Vote

Our democracy is based on freedom, fairness, and choice. But here in North Carolina, a power grab is upon us. Extremists who want control over our elections are pushing for legislation that would limit our freedom to vote and diminish our voices. Our election process...

High Point Branch NAACP Advocates Medicaid Unwinding Problematic for the Most Vulnerable

With the national emergency declaration ending May 11, 2023, another national emergency evolves – more than half of those with Medicaid coverage will be terminated (3 million African Americans, 5 million Latinos, 1 million Asian and Pacific Islanders).  The first...

The High Point Branch of the NAACP advocates “Tell Your NC Representatives to Reject SB 747.”

This anti-voter bill would inject needless meddling by extremists who seek to limit access to the ballot box. The so-called N. C. Election Integrity Network is up to “no good.”    Senate Bill 747 Would: Allow anyone to violate privacy and challenge legitimate...

Celebration of Father’s Day

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us as we pay tribute to our community’s most courageousgentlemen. The men of honor in our lives who have made significant contributions to our families, our churches, and our community. During the Father’s Day...

Second Circuit rules that first-of-its-kind statewide challenge can move forward

New Haven, CT ([DATE]) – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) won an important ruling today that allows its federal suit challenging Connecticut’s discriminatory practice of counting incarcerated people where they are imprisoned, rather than in their home districts, to proceed. This marks the first time any federal appeals court has held that plaintiffs alleging such a practice—known as “prison gerrymandering”—can move forward.

The plaintiffs are represented by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, the Rosen & Associates, P.C., and NAACP Office of the General Counsel.

“[T]he Eleventh Amendment does not immunize Defendants from this suit.” Which is “neither frivolous nor insubstantial,” a unanimous three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote in an unsigned opinion on September 24, 2019. The decision allows the plaintiffs’ case to move forward potentially to discovery and trial.

The suit, NAACP et al. v. Merrill, was filed in June 2018. Plaintiffs, including the NAACP Connecticut State Conference and individual NAACP members, allege that Connecticut’s practice of prison gerrymandering violates residents’ constitutional rights under the one-person, one-vote principle in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The suit seeks to compel Connecticut to amend its redistricting practices to count incarcerated people in their home legislative districts instead of the districts where they are imprisoned, to which they often have no other connection.

“Today’s important ruling will allow this case to be heard on the merits,” said NAACP General Counsel Bradford M. Berry ‘88. “We are eager to secure for Connecticut residents their constitutional right to equal representation, this ruling could ultimately be of national significance.”

By counting incarcerated people where they are imprisoned rather than where they are permanent residents, Connecticut inflates the power of the districts where prisons are located—which are predominantly white and rural—at the expense of the urban districts from which many incarcerated people come.

“We may finally have the chance to reveal the injustice of prison gerrymandering,” said Scot X. Esdaile, President of the NAACP Connecticut State Conference. “We hope that soon the voices and votes from our communities will count the same as those from the rural districts where the prisons are located.”

“Prison gerrymandering has a deep connection to racial inequality,” said Conley Monk, Jr., a named plaintiff in the suit and Marine Corps combat veteran residing in Hamden. “Not only does it harm incarcerated people, who are disproportionately Black and Latino, but it also diminishes the voting power of people in urban districts, which have larger minority populations.”

Connecticut is the state with the sixth highest level of racial disparity in incarceration rates between black and white U.S. residents and the seventh highest for Latinos. The state also has one of the highest levels of income disparity and concentrated poverty in the country.

The proceedings before the Second Circuit stemmed from an appeal by the state. In February of this year, Judge Warren W. Eginton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut denied Connecticut’s motion to dismiss the case. Instead of proceeding to discovery, Connecticut took the unusual step of seeking review by an appeals court—an appeal Judge Eginton deemed “frivolous.” With the Second Circuit’s ruling the case is now once again moving forward.

“This ruling reaffirms the importance of the rights at stake. We are eager to move ahead and bring an end to this harmful and unconstitutional practice,” said Alaa Chaker, a law student intern with the Yale Law School Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, counsel for the plaintiffs. Chaker argued the appeal alongside Alex Taubes of David Rosen & Associates, co-counsel for the plaintiffs. “We hope that by moving forward and arguing this case on the merits, we’ll be able to shine a light on this violation of one of our most fundamental constitutional rights,” added Taubes.

The plaintiffs are represented by the NAACP Office of the General Counsel, Rosen & Associates, P.C., and the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School.

Contact: Laura Pietrantoni: [laura.pietrantoni@ylsclinics.org] to speak with Yale Law School Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic.

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ABOUT THE NAACP:

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities. You can read more about the NAACP’s work and our six “Game Changer” issue areas by visiting NAACP.org.