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• What you dont know about Civil Rights CAN hurt you

  
  The Wichita NAACP Blog — Authority: 121
  "Civil Rights" is not the name of a movement... "Civil Rights" is not a type of organization... "Civil Rights" is not a method of protest... Civil Rights are the rights and privileges guaranteed by law to all citizens of the United States. The Civil Rights movement was an organized and protracted ...
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• Race, Marriage and a False Analogy

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  Brushing aside criticism that it is savaging religious liberty and some of the most reliable social services in the District of Columbia, the D.C. City Council today is set to approve a bill to end the protected status of traditional marriage. The collision between the redefinition of marriage and religious liberty ...
  1 day ago

• Tyler Perry gives $1 million to NAACP

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 130
  Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the gift announced last Monday is the largest donation from an individual in the organization’s history.“I feel so ...
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• NAACP Launches Push To Catch Baltimore Rapists

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  From WJZ.com: BALTIMORE ― A string of sex attacks has east Baltimore on edge, and as Mike Hellgren reports there’s now a new push to get the men responsible off the streets and behind bars. Crime Stoppers is now offering a $2,000 reward, and the NAACP asking for volunteers to hand out flyers. After rapes, ...
  2 days ago

• Jewish Activists and White Institutions

  
  INCOG MAN: Sick of all the BS... — Authority: 125
  The Jews behind all the trouble-making.
  2 days ago

• OPINION: Stop Using Black People As Pawns In Gay Marriage Fight

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  From the Washington Post: Their refrain was as familiar to me as dining hall food, and equally as offensive. All too often, white liberal classmates at the University of Virginia would ask, “Shouldn’t blacks, more than any other group, support gay rights?” I never understood my classmates’ need to align the ...
  2 days ago

• Sports Digest - Irish Times

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  OLYMPICS : Pat Hickey was unanimously re-elected president of the European Olympic Committee (EOC) in Lisbon yesterday. Hickey will serve another four-year term, and will oversee the Continent’s challenge for success at the London Olympics in Continue .. From 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 5, the NAACP ACT-SO ...
  3 days ago

• Despite pact, few blacks at Coast Guard school

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single digits. ... Under a House bill, sponsored by Oberstar and Rep. Elijah ...
  4 days ago

• Tyler Perry donates $1 million to NAACP

  
  Entertainment News, Sports News, Celebrity News, African American Culture & Community News and Events - Bilal Ali Productions — Authority: 154
  In an unprecedented gesture, Tyler Perry has pledged $1 million to the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “I feel so honored and blessed to be in a position where I can give,” said Perry. “Had it not been for the ...
  6 days ago

• Tyler Perry Donates $1M To NAACP

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  From NAACP.org: Washington, DC (November 23, 2009) – The NAACP, the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, announced today that acclaimed film director Tyler Perry has donated one million dollars, marking the largest gift ever given by an individual entertainer.  In addition, Perry purchased ...
  1 week ago

• NAACP v. Civil Rights

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 122
  All of the current amicus curiae briefs in McDonald v. Chicago are now posted on Alan Guras site.The NAACP has submitted theirs, and its one that really bothers me.They argue against revisiting the Privileges or Immunities clause at all, claiming,The Court should turn to the largely unexplored Privileges or Immunities ...
  1 week ago

• Nation Digest: Filmmaker Tyler Perry donates $1 million to NAACP

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 958
  Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP, the largest gift from an individual to the civil rights organization. The gift, which will be distributed over the next four years, was made to commemorate the NAACPs 100th anniversary.
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• Disabled riders say Detroit’s new para-transit services are rife with problems

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  For disabled Detroit residents who cant use public buses, para-transit services are often the only other transportation option. (Creative Commons photo by wyliepoon via Flickr) DETROIT — Disabled residents who use public transit and their advocates are concerned that new para-transit services recently contracted ...
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• Help put a stop to the practice of sentencing Juveniles to Life without Parole

  
  The Wichita NAACP Blog — Authority: 121
  In July of 2009, delegates to the NAACP National Convention approved a resolution to condemn the practice of sentencing Juveniles to Life without Parole sentences. The Resolution also called upon branches to work within their respective states to bring an end to this practice. While Kansas is one the the 7 states in ...
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• Labor and Minority Groups Pressure President Obama for Greater Job Creation

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The NAACP, the AFL-CIO and the Hispanic rights group La Raza joined forces to pressure the Obama administration to do more to create jobs for a recession-plagued nation. The normally pro-Obama groups made it clear that they felt his $787 billion stimulus had favored big banks and corporations and had not gone far ...
  1 week ago

• Paranoia at McGinleys CCSD Headquarters

  
  The Newsless Courier — Authority: 116
  With a cast of thousands. . . No, wait a minute. The cast actually consists of the mayors of Charleston and North Charleston , the infamous Dot Scott of the Charleston Branch NAACP , and a big shot from the local Chamber of Commerce . (I wonder what happened to Mt. Pleasant .) These supporters of ...
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• NAACP Technology Initiative - High Tech Home Security

  
  Politics, Policy, Pathology and Hope WITHIN The Black Community — Authority: 509
  Whereas the NAACP suggested that Black folks make use of technology to assist them in identifying civil rights violations by the POLICE......Americans living in the real world realize that it is the Street Pirates who pose the real threat to their interests. Once again there is a solution on the market that takes the ...
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• First ever joint Dallas NAACP/LULAC election forum planned

  
  DALLAS ISD — Authority: 429
  I just got a news release on the joint Dallas NAACP/LULAC election forum scheduled for Dec. 1. District 9 runoff candidates Sally Cain and Bernadette Nutall plan to be there. District 3 candidate Bruce Parrott will also attend, but his opponent, Leigh Ann Ellis, wont be there because of a previously scheduled medical ...
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• Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident

  
  Chocolate City: Arguably the Best African American Blog — Authority: 113
  By Charles S. Mombo Heather Ellis and Family Photos Credit: Corey NolesCNN News reported last night that Heather Ellis, a 24 year-old African American Xavier University graduate [...]Related posts: Philadelphia Police and Racism the City of Un-Brotherly Love? Philadelphia Finest - ...
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• The Meaningless(ness) Of Flags

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 657
  “Y’all have stirred up a hornet’s nest now,” a friend of ours emailed our founding editor today, referring to a story we posted Thursday regarding the Confederate flag. Actually, we have Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mullins McLeod to thank for that, as we were merely covering the Confederate flag issue ...
  1 week ago

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