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NAACP’s Derrick Johnson on call for ‘Out of Bounds’ sports boycott, Mississippi redistricting

By Geoff Pender and Emily Wagster Pettus | Originally published by Mississippi Today

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National NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson talks with Mississippi Today about GOP redistricting in Mississippi and across the South, and on his organization’s call for a boycott of major college athletic programs in states pushing to weaken Black voting power through gerrymandering.


This article was originally published by Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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