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University President Neil L. Rudenstine expressed his support for the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as he welcomed the group to its third-annual Harvard-based conference yesterday...
...gung-ho to adopt a get-tough attitude toward a perceived rise in juvenile crime, is currently considering legislation to make it easier for violent juvenile offenders to be tried as adults. At the same time that the report was released, leaders of such minority advocacy groups as the NAACP and the Urban League issued requests for Congress to both hold off on the legislation and free up to $100 million in funds for the Justice Department to crack down on discriminatory practices. And there's reason to think politicians will listen: After years of celebrating declining crime rates...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] has rightly decided to continue its economic boycott of the state. Ironically, when contrasted with the "flexibility" of the state's lawmakers (both sides have altered their original stances in order to support the compromise), the NAACP ends up looking like a bunch knee-jerk liberals too stubborn to change their minds. Ironically, the fact that the NAACP is the only organization with sufficient moral backbone to remain consistent might work against it in the media spotlight. The American public must remember that a sign that in the past years...
Participants included New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Norman Siegal, Boston NAACP President Leonard Alkins and Reverend Eugene Rivers...
...remains unclear which party stands to benefit from sounding off on the percentage issue. Neither George W. nor Jeb Bush have made much hay of it lately, probably because it's a racially divisive subject. The NAACP and Urban League are firmly against the use of race-neutral percentages - NAACP head Kwesi Mfume recently called the policy "Jim Crow Jr." What's more, this is just the type of center-hugging policy that could drive right-leaning voters to the Reform party come election day. At the same time, it is a difficult policy for Democrats to attack since...