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Teresa Haley, the state conference president of the Illinois NAACP, is facing calls to resign after disparaging remarks about migrants that her peers are calling "hate speech" during a Zoom leadership meeting, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

“The comments came up when some of the Chicago-based presidents started to talk about the migrant crisis, the funding that was going into neighborhoods, and they had differing opinions from my own. It's OK to have differing opinions,” DuPage County NAACP leader Patrick Watson told Brooke Leigh Howard. “They had different opinions about some of the resources that were going to the community, that resources weren't going towards individuals within the community, even though those resources are coming from different sources. …That's okay to have a different opinion. But President Haley engaged in what I would call absolute hate speech.”

A video of the incident, provided to the Beast, showed Haley saying, “The busloads are coming, and we’re seeing families on the street,” and that migrants receive far more care and resources than the homeless Black population in Illinois. “But these immigrants we got coming over here, they been raping people, they been breaking into homes. They’re like savages as well. They don’t speak the language, and they look at us like we’re crazy because we were the only people in America who were brought over here against our wills and were slaves, sold into slavery."...

This week, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for Black people considering a visit or a move to the state of Florida, claiming that the state's policies are "openly" hostile to people of color and LGBTQ Americans. But according to NAACP national board of directors chairman Leon W. Russell, the advisory was mainly designed to galvanize Black voters against Gov. Ron DeSantis, NBC News reported.

“Let me be clear: We’re not calling for a boycott or a travel ban,” said Russell, who lives in Tampa. “We’re saying to Black people who come to the state or who are thinking about coming to the state that you need to be aware of what’s going on here and you need to think about how you are going to be impacted by this hate and cruelty that is being generated. You need to consider whether or not you’re going to be safe.”

The NAACP's Fort Lauderdale/Broward Branch president said the advisory is already having its intended effect. ...

By Marti Maguire

Fox News host Heather Childers announced the University of Connecticut's national championship on Tuesday by saying that the team was "NAACP champs."

NAACP leaders will challenge new voting laws in the United States at the United Nations' Human Rights Council in Switzerland on Wednesday.

Speaking to a crowd at New Hampshire on Thursday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that African Americans would rather collect food stamps than find employment.