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...Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling," he wrote. Stevens said that if the prosecutor's arguments at the trial of Jacobs' sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even the Vatican denounced the execution as "not only incredible, but monstrous and absurd...
...Houston and went on to build the so-called "Fourth Network" around those outlets. NBC claims that Fox is violating federal rules that limit a foreign company or individual from owning more than 25 percent of a broadcast property. NBC's complaint follows a similar petition by the NAACP, which said that Fox's foreign ownership structure denied opportunities to U.S. minorities. Fox officials deny wrongdoing, saying that Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp. and became a U.S. citizen in order to buy the stations, now owns 76 percent of the network's voting rights.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin...
...gone from oddity to commodity in just one year. In 1993 the rap trio Digable Planets released its jazzy, idiosyncratic debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space); since then the record has sold more than 500,000 copies and won a Grammy as well as two naacp Image Awards, and other jazz-rap bands, like US 3, have followed in Planets' wake. Meanwhile, some of the most respected musicians in jazz -- from Harvard summa cum laude saxophonist Joshua Redman to veteran trumpeter Lester Bowie -- have recorded songs combining jazz with hip-hop. Both Miles Davis and Quincy...
Membership in both these groups is strictly voluntary and blind to race and gender. The NAACP, in fact, has had both black and white founders, executives, and administrators as well as prominent black opponents, like Booker T. Washington...
About half of the NAACP's staffers have offered to work without pay to pull the group through its most turbulent political and financial period. The oldest civil rights organization in the country yesterday announced that it was laying off all of its 90 employees for a week to try and make up a $3.5 million deficit in its budget. Today about 40 workers agreed to come in voluntarily.Ben Chavis was fired this Augustfrom his executive director post under a cloud of financial mismanagement and sexual harassment charges. But an even bigger shakeup is around the corner, predicts TIME national...