Word: naacp
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...challenge of convincing the American people that she—a woman!—deserves to return to the White House, this time at its helm. Over the past two months here in Washington, I have seen her enrapture an audience of evangelicals, command a meeting of the NAACP, and passionately testify before a commission on Hurricane Katrina in a church basement. And though at times she struggles—she still inflects awkwardly when delivering punch-lines and her laugh sometimes seems forced—the mix of her striking intelligence, her newfound confidence in taking political risks...
...Trouble is, a lot of those votes are not in the city. Evacuees live in 44 states now. The NAACP and other groups filed a lawsuit to delay the election, establish polling centers out of state and force FEMA to turn over the addresses of evacuees to the campaigns. They lost. The state of Louisiana agreed to set up 10 polling places outside of New Orleans but in-state, near the borders of neighboring states. Community groups like ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which help low- and moderate-income families, have organized buses leaving Monday from...
...wasn’t going to give up her seat on the bus, which incidentally started the Montgomery bus boycotts, and Dr. King took it from there. You never hear that she was deeply concerned with civil rights before the bus incident, serving as volunteer secretary of her NAACP chapter, or that after refusing to give up her seat and subsequently being arrested, she made it her business to educate others around the country about civil rights, quite independently of Dr. King. Now, obviously, none of this should be surprising to anyone. Black womanhood is the epitome of the dreaded...
...week after the president of Cambridge’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter compared the Cambridge public schools to an “apartheid educational system,” concerns continue to overshadow a new benchmarking initiative aimed at closing the achievement gap between minority and white students. The new initiative would collect data on student performance from standardized tests in an effort to identify gaps across subject areas. According to Cambridge public school administration officials, the new benchmarking system is necessary to raise the level of achievement of Cambridge students and give...
...could accept this report if white students scored at 100 percent all the time,” said civil rights leader Kathy Reddick, the president of the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP...