NAACP Sues to Block Trump’s Dismantling of ‘America’s Peacemaker’ Agency

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition
Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO (Black Enterprise)
Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO (Black Enterprise)

On Nov. 25, several branches of the NAACP and the Missionary Baptist Convention of Missouri filed a federal lawsuit to stop the dismantling of the Community Relations Service (CRS), a Department of Justice ( DOJ) agency known as “America’s Peacemaker.”

The organization contends the Trump administration is “brazenly defying Congress” by eliminating an agency established via Title X of the landmark C…