At the 2025 NAACP Image Awards, Vice President Kamala Harris received the chairman’s award, emphasizing the importance of continued activism and rejecting cynicism in the face of current challenges. She urged Americans to harness their power through organization, mobilization, and advocacy, echoing the urgency of the NAACP’s founders. The ceremony also honored Dave Chappelle and Keke Palmer, while Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight” swept several awards. Harris’s acceptance speech highlighted the power of “we the people” to shape the nation’s future.
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Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, reports emerged detailing the deaths of women in states with strict abortion bans, highlighting the dangerous consequences of restricted abortion access. These deaths, such as that of Porsha Ngumezi, resulted from medical professionals’ fear of legal repercussions for providing necessary care, even in cases of miscarriage. Simultaneously, state maternal mortality boards are actively avoiding investigations into these deaths, further hindering efforts to understand and prevent future fatalities. This censorship, coupled with efforts to eliminate existing exceptions in abortion bans, reveals a prioritization of ideology over women’s lives. The actions of anti-abortion activists demonstrate a disregard for women’s health and safety, exposing the misogynistic nature of these policies.
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John Q. Hosedrinker