Word: naacp
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Historically, other progressive organizations have managed to get around this problem. The NAACP, after all, is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. NOW is the National Organization for Women...
...year later, in 1970, his mother, Deborah M. Cole, remarried. Her new husband was Jack Greenberg, a renowned lawyer who spent 23 years as director and counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Greenberg, a former dean of Columbia College who serves on the Columbia law faculty, also spent a year as a lecturer at Harvard Law School...
Benjamin Chavis, the chief exec of the nation's largest civil rights organization, will be fired tomorrow and an oversight committee will be appointed until a replacement is found, a NAACP source has told TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White. The NAACP board meets tomorrow in Baltimore ostensibly to decide Chavis's fate. But White's source says a deal has already been cut within the NAACP to get rid of Chavis. Chavis has came under fire recently because he settled a sexual harrassment suit with money taken from the NAACP. Yesterday, a second woman accused Chavis of alleged improper advances...
...chief exec of the nation's largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is hearing calls for his resignation -- from once-staunch supporters. The Chicago Southside chapter is demanding that Chavis resign because he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with NAACP money. The Southside branch, with 20,000 members, is one of the largest in the country. TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White says that this latest news adds to the pressure on the NAACP's 64-member board to fire Chavis at its meeting this Saturday. But, White adds, "getting rid of Chavis would...
...NAACP says electrocutions have gone awry eight times since 1976. A weak current caused convicted cop-killer Joseph Tafero to roast to death for six minutes on May 4, 1990. When the switch was flipped, 6-in. flames and smoke spewed out of Tafero's head. The power was stopped, and witnesses saw Tafero inhale deeply several times. It took two more jolts to kill...