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...While Mfume made headlines for grading Hollywood on minority representation and denouncing ebonics ("black English"), detractors say he did little to draw attention to the health, education and criminal-justice issues that still cripple many in the black community. Laments Jerome Whyatt Mondesire, president of the group's Philadelphia chapter: "We've moved away from the grass-root courtroom battles that made us relevant to the plight of lower-income blacks...
...concern that almost everyone shares is the need for more young people to join the organization. Efforts like the National Day of College Preparation have helped increase the number of college chapters to 190, from 50 nine years ago. Younger people are taking on leadership positions. Rick Callender, president of the N.A.A.C.P. branch in San Jose, Calif., is a third-generation member. His mother Norma helped mobilize support for the class action against Denny's in the early 1990s. Callender, 35, says he raised membership in San Jose from just 100 in 2000 to 2,500 in 2004. With...
...charities as well as in-kind support to Electriciens sans Frontières, which is sending 15 electricians and more than 50 diesel-fueled generators to help restore power in Sumatra and Sri Lanka. Aid groups have been heartened by the outpouring of corporate generosity. Oxfam International's British chapter has been so overwhelmed by donations that it's still counting the money. "The response this time from corporations has been much larger than usual," says spokeswoman Anna Mitchell. But with the tsunami-torn countries facing a long, slow, painful recovery, Oxfam and other groups hope this first wave...
...living in Paris, Beauchard began working on "Epileptic" in 1996 and didn't finish until 2003. "I thought about it for twenty years. I didn't know how to draw it or tell it," he says. Eventually Beauchard began writing and publishing "Epileptic" as individual chapters. "I went chapter by chapter. I imagined an end when I started but it changed while I did the work. At the beginning I was thinking about a very dark end but I changed doing this work and came to a more optimistic end, I think," says Beauchard. The first half of these chapbooks...
Nayana N. Mawilmada, a second-year student at the Business School who established a Harvard community fund at the local chapter of the Red Cross nearly two weeks ago, said he was delighted by yesterday’s announcement...