Word: naacp
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...Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein said.But not everyone welcomed the FCC. A number of people gathered outside of the hearing in protest, condemning what they felt was the FCC’s discrimination against minority media ownership. Members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, the Boston branch of the NAACP, and the National Black Chamber of Commerce held a press conference outside the building, beneath a bright yellow banner reading “Stop the FCC’s War on Diversity.” “We’re deeply concerned about any policy that can decrease...
...John McCain Hillary Clinton McCain features the slogan on his website, but Clinton has been trying to make it her own 'Fired up ... ready to go' Hillary Clinton Barack Obama She's used the words of Obama's chant, started by an Obama supporter but also an NAACP rallying cry 'Yes, we can'/'S, se puede' Barack Obama Cesar Chavez This echo of the United Farm Workers' motto became the basis for a popular YouTube music video...
...could be the number, it could be the name was improperly typed in," says senior counsel Elizabeth Westfall with the Advancement Project, a civil rights group that, along with several other lawyers, represents the plaintiffs - Florida's NAACP, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, and the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition. They are suing Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning, who oversees elections in the state, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be immediately suspended. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Mickle in Gainesville heard roughly four hours of oral arguments in the case on Tuesday...
...extreme stance against illegal immigration that, he says, he's been barred from the White House, handles his dying campaign like a bombing stand-up comic. "I must admit, there was a debate I won hands down," he tells a group of supporters he's gathered for lunch. "The NAACP one. I was the only Republican that showed! But I got a standing ovation. It was because I showed up! But they gave me a standing ovation when I left. Maybe that's because I left!" Tip your waitresses. But check their papers first...
...Waiting backstage, he would mouth the lines of guest stars like Don Cheadle as the more experienced actor delivered them. "Will was so intent," says the show's creator, Andy Borowitz. "He was like a kid waiting for his bar mitzvah." In 1992, when Borowitz accepted an NAACP Image award for the series and thanked "the next President of the United States, Will Smith," his leading man relished the moment. "I got the feeling he loved it not totally ironically," Borowitz says...