An appellate court in Louisiana has held that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has appropriately followed its own internal rules in suspending a “lifetime” member for five years for conduct “inimical to the best interests” of the Association. The Court upheld the action to suspend the rights of Ernest L. Johnson, a former member of the national board of directors. According to the Court’s opinion, the NAACP was originally incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in New York in 1911 and was exempt from federal income tax as a charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Tax Code. In 2019, the 501(c)(3) organization changed its name to NAACP Empowerment Programs, Inc...