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A Louisiana State University-University of Alabama football game in 2024. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and their supporters to boycott public universities in states that have moved to \u201climit, weaken or erase Black voting representation\u201d in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision<\/a> to dramatically limit the landmark Voting Rights Act.<\/p>

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With what it has dubbed the \u201cOut of Bounds\u201d campaign, the civil rights group is asking Black athletes and recruits to withhold their commitments to schools in eight states \u2014 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas \u2014 where flagship universities generate millions of dollars in annual athletic revenue.<\/p>\n

The public pressure campaign also asks fans to stop purchasing tickets and merchandise from those athletic programs, and for current athletes to use their platforms to question school leaders about voting rights. Recruits and current athletes are being encouraged to strongly consider committing or transferring to historically Black colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice,\u201d NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement. \u201c\u2026 The same power that built these programs can be redirected. And it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a ruling this month, the Supreme Court dramatically limited a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that had allowed states to consider race when drawing congressional maps. Though the Voting Rights Act still directs states to consider race to some degree when redistricting, the ruling kicked off a scramble by Republicans, especially in Southern states, to redraw their maps.<\/p>\n

Louisiana is adjusting its map after the Supreme Court ruled that a second majority-Black district was unconstitutional. In Tennessee, the state\u2019s sole Democrat in Congress dropped his reelection bid<\/a> after the General Assembly broke up his majority-Black district into three separate ones that favor Republicans. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has called a special session next month to redraw the state\u2019s congressional map for 2028.<\/p>

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\u201cWhat these states have done is not a policy disagreement. It is a sprint to erase Black political power,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThese actions happened in days, in some cases in hours, of a Supreme Court ruling that gives extremist lawmakers a playbook to erode Black representation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NAACP said the campaign will remain in effect until the states in question adopt voting rights protections and restore congressional maps that accurately reflect the Black population, among other demands.<\/p>\n

Tylik McMillan, national director for the NAACP\u2019s youth and college division, said it was important for Black athletes to understand that their talent and their community\u2019s political power are not separate issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state that is working to erase your grandmother\u2019s congressional district is the same state whose governor will stand on the field and celebrate your touchdown or game-winning shot,\u201d McMillan said in the NAACP statement. \u201cWe are asking young people \u2014 recruits, current athletes, fans \u2014 to see that connection clearly and to act on it.\u201d<\/p>

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Justin Jouvenal contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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