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Texas NAACP Responds to Violations of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UT-Austin
Joint Press Release by Texas AAUP & Texas NAACP
April 2nd, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
04/03/2024
Texas NAACP & Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Contacts: Gary Bledsoe, President, Texas NAACP, lkerrnaacp@gmail.com, and Brian Evans, Interim President, Texas AAUP Conference, aaup.texas@gmail.com
UT AUSTIN STAFF LAID OFF IN NEW SB 17-RELATED DEVELOPMENT
Today, a large number of University of Texas at Austin professionals who formerly worked in DEI assignments received pink slips notifying them that their days at the University will come to an end in 90 days. Estimates are that approximately 60 persons received these pink slips, with some offices to be closed by May 31st. 40 persons who were notified that they would be laid off were with the Division of Campus and Community Engagement (DCCE), formerly the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.
December 10, 2023
TXLBC- 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
Chairman’s Black Excellence Awards
Gary L. Bledsoe
NEWSWORTHY
7/17/2023
PRESS RELEASE: 07/17/2023
For Immediate Release
Joint Statement on Dr. Kathleen McElroy
(TEXAS) - Last week, Dr. Kathleen McElroy, a nationally renowned journalist and professor, rescinded an appointed tenure position to lead the journalism program at her alma mater, Texas A&M University. This targeted attack on a highly regarded Black professor has shown the hand of how outspoken anti-DEI sentiments can discriminatorily infringe professional hiring procedures under the guise of meritocracy.
NEWSWORTHY
6/30/2023
PRESS RELEASE: 06/30/2023
For Immediate Release
Texas State Conference of NAACP Units
During those decades, African Americans legally were barred from those select universities and all public schools except for those that were segregated by race. Race was the injury … (click here to read more.)
NEWSWORTHY
6/29/2023
SCOTUS has struck down affirmative action
Response from our state President, Gary L. Bledsoe
“Today the United States Supreme Court has issued an constitutionally
insupportable decision that disregards many years of precedent and that will be
damaging to our nation and country in the vein of such decisions as Dred Scott
v. Sanford. Especially in Texas where African-Americans were barred from
most of our institutions of higher education until 1957.”