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...appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
Street Creds: Former attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; member of the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; former director of Academy of Political Science; member of the Council on Foreign Relations...
...Ohio, fake memos with forged Board of Elections letterhead have been sent to some voters informing them that if they registered through Democratic and NAACP drives, they would be ineligible to vote. In South Carolina, election officials have warned voters to ignore fake letters purporting to be from the NAACP that threaten voters with arrest for outstanding parking tickets or for failing to pay child support...
...Jadakiss’ smash “Why,” and people are packing in rallies and conventions held by Citizen Change, Simmons’ HSAN and the Hip-Hop Convention. This media-savvy organizing, coupled with the traditional grassroots registration and voter turnout by groups like the NAACP, America Coming Together (ACT) and America Votes, has resulted in surging registration rates for new black voters...
...Leonard Alkins, the president of the Boston branch NAACP, disputed the notion that standardized tests were a good measure of achievement...