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In his first three months on the job, Chavis has shaken up the N.A.A.C.P., trading its long-standing cautiousness for a new militancy. Only a day after his selection, he demonstrated the association's renewed concern for reaching the inner-city poor by journeying to violence-plagued housing projects in...
DAVE GOODRICH, WHO OWNS PART OF a small real estate firm in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, ought to be happy right now. Thanks to the steady decline in mortgage rates, his business is growing rapidly. The company has nearly doubled its work force since 1986, while reinvesting roughly two-thirds of...
New York -- According to a highly placed source in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Jesse Jackson has been blocked from speaking at the group's annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, this month. Earlier this year, Jackson campaigned hard to become the head of the N.A.A.C.P. and...
Mark Blitz of the Hudson Institute, an Indianapolis-based think-tank, argues that the persistence of conspiracy theories reflects a collective sense of impotency -- people feeling powerless before blind forces they cannot control. In its most benign form, this near paranoia confines itself to Elvis spotting. At worst it leads...
Some of the most innovative and successful efforts have been launched by private religious and social-service organizations. Girls Inc., with 165 chapters nationwide, launched Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy (PAP) in 1985 to help low-income teens avoid cycles of early pregnancy, poverty and hopelessness. The first section, called Growing Together...