Word: naacp
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...Barack Obama is now very likely to remain the Senate's only black member. Kwesi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP, lost a primary against House Democrat Ben Cardin for the Senate seat in Maryland. Cardin will now face Michael Steele, the African-American Republican who is the state's lieutenant governor. Polls showed that Steele had some chance of winning against Mfume, whose support was small outside of his base of black Democrats. But that limited base cost him against Cardin, and the veteran congressman is a heavy favorite in a Democratic state like Maryland. The other African...
...after a speech and said, 'I expected Jesse Jackson, and I got Colin Powell,'" Patrick said. Kweisi Mfume, who hopes to enter the Senate from Maryland but faces a tough primary opponent, is the exception to those men, touting his civil rights background as the former head of the NAACP...
...call into question a lifetime of work fighting for civil rights, including...service at the NAACP legal defense fund, over one decision Deval Patrick made as an undergraduate at Harvard is totally ridiculous,” she said in a statement...
...Culver and other Democrats on the ticket. And when he's not in Iowa, he'll still be running for President. Biden's schedule in August includes attending fundraisers around the country and a trip to South Carolina, another key early primary state, to give a speech to the NAACP...
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is taking flak this week for his use of the term "tar baby" while addressing a group of Iowa Republicans on July 29 in a reference to Boston's troubled Big Dig highway project. Was he offensive in doing so? The head of the NAACP, Bruce Gordon, believes the governor "made a bad choice" in using such a term, the civil-rights leader told the Boston Herald. But Romney has his defenders as well, among them a minister in the Nation of Islam. Romney's spokesman apologized on his behalf, saying the governor simply meant...