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...governor in Michigan, labor unions like the United Auto Workers, top officials at two of the state's biggest businesses, Ford and General Motors, the Chamber of Commerce groups in several of the state's cities and the Michigan Catholic Conference, as well as national groups like the NAACP and the Urban League. "It's a very lonely battle," Connerly told TIME earlier this year...
...bench, could rule next year in the Seattle and Louisville cases that race cannot be considered at any level of education. But win or lose, Connerly and Gratz say they are committed to ending affirmative action wherever they can. And if Connerly heads to another state, the NAACP and other groups are likely to take him on. His battle may feel lonely, but his opponents will make sure he has lots of company wherever he goes...
...such as the number of applicants or their biographical details.Despite its closed nature, the search process did receive some scrutiny from community leaders.In a March interview with the Cambridge Chronicle, shortly after the start of the search, Kathy A. Reddick, the president of the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP and a member of the search committee, lamented the lack of women and minorities on the list of candidates to replace Knight, who is African-American.And school committee members said the secrecy surrounding this first stage of the search did not make managerial sense.School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan...
...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...