Word: naacp
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...four-day Color Lines Conference, organized by Harvard’s Civil Rights Project (CRP), was packed with high-profile events, including a speech by a top official from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the presentation of a major study revealing unusually high segregation in Boston-area neighborhoods and elementary schools. University President Lawrence H. Summers was a late addition to the list of speakers (please see related story at right...
...NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond was watched with rapt attention when he spoke to a packed audience over dinner...
They also met with black ministers, the local NAACP chapter and the Latino chamber of commerce, who gave them “consistent feedback that change did happen” in the district, according to committee member Joseph G. Grassi, noting that the achievement gap between minority and white students had closed by 30 to 40 percent...
...this lawsuit is not the way. The NAACP has drawn attention to important issues that must be addressed, but it has helped neither of the causes for which it hopes to advocate with this mix-and-match suit...
...agree with the Staff’s dismissal of the NAACP lawsuit as nothing more than grandstanding. But we are concerned that gun control hinders the ability of those living in America’s inner cities to protect themselves from crime. Greater policing and better hospital response times in urbancommunities are measures that undoubtedly deserve our support. But the larger solution to gun violence is not to reduce the self-defense capabilities of decent, upstanding people. Rather, it is to enforce aggressively our current gun-safety statutes and to allow law-abiding citizens the right to own a potentially...