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...Meanwhile, some fans have responded to the NAACP effort by buying even more flags...
...NAACP members say their anti-flag effort is part of a broader campaign to increase minority recruitment, to secure funding for a campus cultural center, and to require all students to take at least one course in minority history...
...October, the university’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) started a full-field drive to get the flag banned on campus...
...change the world for the better.” “This award will serve as a constant reminder to me to chart the right course,” Madigan said. Matos, on the other hand, started out as a human rights advocate for Amnesty International and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Her work with death row inmates led her to focus on preventive measures that would discourage vulnerable individuals from leading lives of crime. Now, Matos leads the oldest Latino community service organization in New Haven, Conn. “Lisa Madigan and Kica Matos have...
...Mehlman has been particularly aggressive in this initiative. Since taking over as head of the Republican Party earlier this year, the former White House political director has spoken at 31 events focused on outreach to African-Americans, from historically black colleges to small NAACP chapters. He's pointedly criticized the so-called "Southern Strategy" Republicans used in the past to appeal to white voters in the South by using race as a wedge issue. Mehlman's message is twofold: that some GOP policies appeal to blacks better than those of the Democrats, and that because blacks give 90% of their...