Word: naacp
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...indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing and imposition of the death penalty." A midterm assessment of the Bush Administration's civil rights track record issued last week by the independent Citizens Commission on Civil Rights found a similar "pattern of inequity" in death sentencing. Richard Burr of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's capital-punishment project puts it more bluntly, "Prosecutors frequently pay no attention to the families of black homicide victims. They don't even stay in touch with them." Later this year Congress will consider a measure that aims to enable defendants to quash death...
...that before a federal busing order could be lifted, schools must first convince courts that they have met the test of good-faith compliance and have erased all traces of past discrimination owing to segregated schooling. "This is a fairly high standard," said Janell Byrd, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "School systems that have been discriminating for 65 years are not likely to easily prove that 10 years of busing have healed all wounds...
Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, told his organization's annual conference, "At no time since Reconstruction has there been a comparable period of incessant harassment of Black elected officials...
...York, protestors at the Central Park jogger trial followed Sharpton's lead and heckled the gang rape victim by calling her "slut" and "liar." Many prominent Black leaders--including some from the local NAACP--complained about the disproportionate media attention paid to the jogger, who is white. Only in the wake of public outrage did they denounce the savagery and lawlessness of the crime...
Stith, a 1979 graduate of the Divinity school who has worked in Boston-area churches for the past 11 years, warned the picnickers of ongoing racial polarization. He cited the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, N.Y., and the letter bombs recently sent to NAACP offices as examples of a "racist terrorism" which is becoming more and more common...