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Coors officials say they feel their company has taken a bum rap, and have been working hard to insure that the brewery is a model corporate citizen. Fred Rasheed, the national director of the NAACP economic opportunity program agrees that Coors, "has come a long...
...years ago, Rasheed might have said that Coors had a long way to go. After William Coors reportedly made some racist statements before a group of minority business leaders in 1984, the NAACP started a boycott in Southern California and initiated negotiations with the brewery. The result was a series of fair-trade agreements or covenants between Coors and the NAACP and several Hispanic organizations--Rasheed was a key negotiator of these agreements...
...that long ago that the all-white powers that be in the South refused to penalize the murderers of Blacks or the KKK. The killers of Mississippi's NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers were never brought to justice. This time, however, justice was done. After Donald's murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment, a civil suit was brought against the UKA for inciting its members to kill him. Racial hatred was put on trial. It lost...
...NAACP has threatened a broader legal challenge, a suit against The Citadel for more than 14 civil rights grievances--including allegations that the school violated Nesmith's civil rights, restricts freedom of speech and assembly on campus. More CIA Protests, More Protests...
...different from a law already declared constitutionally invalid. To Meese's critics, his most troubling contention was that in general only the parties to a suit are bound by a court decision, which implied that no one else was. "What makes the law effective is voluntary compliance," says the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Barry Goldstein. "What if every school district in the country decided to have school prayer and every single case had to be litigated?" Could legislators simply ignore court rulings when drawing up new laws and regulations? Taken to its logical extreme, Meese's view...