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...Originally, Wang was invited to speak as part of a debate with a pro-integration representative from the NAACP or the American Civil Liberties Union...
...will become a minority in this country. What that means is, right now, we need to have a clear picture of where we're headed.' BEN JEALOUS, newly named president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who at 35 is the youngest leader in the NAACP's 99-year history...
...three shooting suspects, captured on tape by a news helicopter. Among 19 officers identified in the footage, seven are accused of using excessive force, and a sergeant was demoted for failing to intervene. The speedy response by newly appointed police commissioner Charles H. Ramsey was praised by local NAACP leadership, which also criticized the Rev. Al Sharpton's involvement in the controversy. Sharpton had called the incident "worse than Rodney King." A criminal investigation continues...
Even outspoken local civil rights activists have been reluctant to raise an uproar. Philadelphia's NAACP head J. Whyatt Mondesire, not a man known to be shy about criticizing the city police, publicly dismissed the Rev. Al Sharpton when he called the case "worse than Rodney King" and came to town to visit one of the beaten suspects. "We let him know we didn't particularly like outsiders coming in and making comments about a situation he wasn't aware of," Mondesire told TIME. "But he practices his own brand of headline grabbing. So let him do his own thing...
...black students, with 4 percent of black and 34 percent of white students scoring advanced. There was a 37 percent difference on the mathematics advanced scores, with 22 percent of black and 59 percent of white students achieving this score. A report prepared by the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP criticized leaders of the system for having expectations that are “not high enough” for children. It is these low expectations, the report says, that explain why more black students in other districts—including Milton, Stoughton, and Waltham—scored proficient on last...