Following a meeting organized by the Arizona school district where six high school girls wore T-shirts spelling out the n-word (more or less), Don Harris, head of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP—who also happens to be white, and Jewish—commented on a reporter’s appearance: “Nice tits!”

Tony Lepore, the “Dancing Cop” of Providence, Rhode Island, was fired last week, after he organized a protest against a Dunkin Donuts worker who wrote “#blacklivesmatter” on a police officer’s cup. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reports, he was fired again—well, “disinvited”—from his new gig, in East Providence.

On Saturday night, after a brief illness, civil rights leader Julian Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75.

Tonight, NBC announced that former Spokane NAACP President Rachel Dolezal would appear on the network Tuesday for a live interview with Today Show host Matt Lauer.

Rachel Dolezal has resigned from her position as president of Spokane’s NAACP chapter. “Please know I will never stop fighting for human rights and will do everything in my power to help and assist, whether it means stepping up or stepping down, because this is not about me,” she wrote in a Facebook statement. “It’s about justice. This is not me quitting; this is a continuum.”

On Sunday, Spokane NAACP President Rachel Dolezal announced she was postponing a Monday meeting expected to include her first public statement regarding accusations she lied about her race.

Happy Rachel Dolezal Day. In the video above, uploaded in 2012, Dolezal talks art, commerce, old white men, and diversity. Nice!

Of all the questions raised by the saga of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who posed as black in order to move up the ranks of the Spokane NAACP, perhaps the most important one is this: Did anyone, you know, ever ask her if she was black? The answer to that is yes—and Rachel did not handle it very well.

On top of everything else, a bomb blew up outside the office of the Colorado Springs, Colorado NAACP chapter yesterday.

On Saturday, the NAACP called on prosecutors to upgrade the charges from misdemeanors to felonies in the San Jose State University racial hazing case. "This is not simple hazing or bullying," Reverend Jethroe Moore II said in a statement. "This is obviously racially based terrorism targeted at their African-American roommate."

Ben Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced on Sunday that he will resign by the end of the year. Jealous, who has been the NAACP's president since 2008, said he will teach at a university and plans to spend more time with his family.

In 1997, Duane Buck was convicted of shooting and killing two people, including his former girlfriend, in Houston, Texas. A jury sentenced him to death. Among the factors that influenced their decision: testimony from a psychologist who said that black people like Buck are more violent and dangerous than other people.

We receive a great many emails here at Gawker headquarters. We cannot answer them all. But today, we can answer one of them. This morning, prominent email-sender Tony Caputo sent in a list of questions. Here are the answers:

New York mayor Mike Bloomberg's crusade to ban large-sized sugary drinks has some surprising new foes: the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation, two large nonprofits ostensibly dedicated to advancing the rights of minorities. In this case, they are advancing the interests of their own corporate backers at the expense of the people they are supposed to serve.

Mitt Romney should pick a trollface mask for vice president. It'll turn Reddit into a bad-art Möbius strip, and it'll give his campaign an identity it's lacked. Yesterday, he spoke to the NAACP national convention, stood firm on an issue, elicited boos and, hours later, embraced the boos in another speech. If the campaign were a message board, he might as well have closed with a Cam'ron-inspired "u mad?"

When President Obama spoke out in favor of same-sex marriage, some worried what effect this would have among his black supporters — particularly in terms of the traditionally conservative black church. But a recent poll showed a significant increase in support for marriage equality within the black community: 54 percent in favor, up from 41 percent last year.

Can Newt Gingrich be president for just one day, so we can all watch this on pay-per-view? "I will go to the NAACP convention, and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps."

On the internet, "u mad, bro?" (and its earlier cousin "you mad?") is a classic meme deployed to maximize the rage-inducing effects of trolling. In real life—where people are somewhat less familiar with the trollface oeuvre—it can be taken a little differently.

Shirley Sherrod, the USDA worker whom Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack hastily fired following a deplorable Andrew Breitbart video hit job that made her appear racist, may be offered her job back. Soon. But now she may not even want it.

So, as it turns out, there are things a person can do that are so offensive it gets him kicked out of the Tea Party movement. One of those things, as Tea Party Express leader and scholar of Islam Mark Williams recently learned, is to write a fake letter from NAACP President Benjamin Jealous to President Abraham Lincoln that reads, in part: