The NAACP is urging black athletes to rethink playing for Southern schools over voting rights.

The silence of these institutions is complicity.

And a mistrial motion taking center stage today in the Virginia Elementary school shooting trial.

Under law, they can't ask questions of the witnesses.

And TSA is changing the rules for travelers carrying weed.

We'll explain.

The page does not give details on the specific reason for this rule change.

It's Thursday, May 21st.

From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown.

This is Front Page.

And here are today's biggest stories.

Plus, today on the headlines we didn't take seriously enough,

the Supreme Court ruling from 2013 that's behind everything happening right now.

Stay with me.

If you're a parent with a child being recruited right now,

if your son is hoping to play college, football, or basketball,

if your family is looking at schools like Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida, or Texas,

the NAACP wants you to start asking a brand new question before signing day.

Not just how big the stadium is, not just about the NIL money, and not about playing time,

but whether the state your child is about to spend four years in respects their right to vote.

Because the NAACP just launched a new campaign urging black athletes and

their families to reconsider attending public universities in states they say are weakening

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