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Critics and fans say Thompson is unusual for the number of positions he maintains. Along with his seats in the State House of Representatives and on the Cambridge NAACP, Thompson works as a residency checker for the city's School Department and as part-time security guard for the University, working in the Quad...
While some have faulted Thompson for having too many commitments outside his elected office, the representative says he has not worked in the School Department and Harvard positions since a foot injury in February at the NAACP national convention...
...been the tendency of minority students to socialize and live together. Both students and college officials often refer to this association as "segregation" or "self-segregation." But this is an appalling definition--minorities who enjoy the company of their own communities engage in congregation, not segregation, as ex-NAACP head Benjamin Chavis has pointed...
...legal foundation, housed at Regent Law School, called the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ. It is one of a rapidly growing network of Christian legal organizations around the country that have adopted the techniques of liberal activism developed by such groups as the ACLU and the naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund to do the Lord's work. They are fed by a much smaller number of law schools that teach jurisprudence with what Pat Robertson, founder of Regent and ACLJ, calls "biblical underpinnings...
...NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams left her dying husband's bedside on Saturday to be present for the close vote that elected her, and to preside over her first meeting as chair. Early this morning, Walter Williams died of cancer. "She got home just in time for him to recognize her," says TIME's White. "It was literally a choice between life and death. He told her, 'It's too important, you have to go.'" Evers-Williams lost her first husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to an assassin's bullet three decades...