Word: naacp
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...rally attracted statements and endorsements from some big names, including Mayor of Cambridge Francis H. Duehay '55 and Julian Bond, chair of the national board of the NAACP...
...Wednesday's meeting, Eric Mitchell of the Boston NAACP said that all local NAACP officials were away at the organization's annual national convention...
...years, the NAACP has lamented the flood of handguns into African-American communities. Yet the nation's oldest civil rights organization has had little impact on curbing the proliferation. But the shooting tragedies in Littleton, Colo., and Conyers, Ga., plus the recent court victory against gun manufacturers in New York, may give the organization the political firepower it needs to advance its public-safety agenda...
...This week, at its annual convention in New York City, the NAACP plans to announce that it will file a class-action lawsuit against manufacturers, distributors and importers of handguns. The lawsuit will come on the heels of several suits filed against the industry by cities: Chicago, for example, charges that a glut of guns supplied to the suburbs has fueled an illegal market in cities, while New Orleans claims that safety devices on guns are inadequate. NAACP president Kweisi Mfume told TIME that the organization will seek not financial damages but injunctions ordering the industry to make several changes...
...campuses. And it means that fewer minorities will graduate with the elite credentials that would help them become top doctors, lawyers and business leaders. "Some people don't believe African-American and Mexican-American students deserve to be at these institutions," says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. "That should be refuted...