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...What do you mean "we," paleface? Two years ago, the NAACP launched a high-profile campaign to get more minorities in lead roles on prime-time shows and lead positions behind the camera. Last year, the networks immediately remedied the situation, introducing several minority-cast family dramas, getting rid of the ubiquitous sassy Hispanic maid stereotypes in sitcoms and ushering in an era of universal brotherhood. At least, that happened in some parallel universe. On our planet, the networks did institute some behind-the-scenes hires and improved their casting record, at least vis-a-vis African Americans. There remain...
Penda Hair, co-director of the Advancement Project and the attorney involved with NAACP v. Katherine Harris, focused on the need for grassroots efforts to accomplish what litigation cannot...
...intimate gathering, co-sponsored by the College Democrats and the Harvard NAACP, of about 40 students applauded several student performances representing the past and present experiences of blacks...
...achievement gap "has gotten progressively worse. The system has gotten progressively more arrogant," said Kathy A. Reddick, president of the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
...Reddick and the NAACP have issued what they term a "call to action" to improve education in the city...