From January 4th:

In this exclusive interview, ESSENCE catches up with NAACP President Cornell William Brooks following his arrest for staging a sit-in to protest Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions. Here's what he had to say about the controversial appointment, voting rights and how an impending Trump presidency will affect Black communities.

As the country prepares for an impending Donald Trump administration, resistance movements have already spread across the country.

On Tuesday, the NAACP staged a sit-in at the office of Senator Jeff Sessions to protest his nomination as U.S. Attorney General. Sen. Sessions served as an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign on major policy proposals. He has also served in the Senate since 1997. But it’s his noted racist past that has the NAACP and people across the country fearful of his appointment to the Department of Justice. In 1986, Sessions was denied a judgeship appointment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama after it was revealed he joked about the Ku Klux Klan and made racist statements.

NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks joined the local Alabama branches to protest Sessions’ nomination. The NAACP live-streamed the protest on its Facebook page, which ended when Brooks, along with five others, were arrested at the Mobile office.

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