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• NJ: NAACP Chairman Speaks Out for Gay Marriage Bill

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 445
  “Gay rights are civil rights,” Julian Bond said, invoking during his testimony the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the women’s suffrage movement and the abolition of slavery. Bond was one of many people to provide testimony on marriage equality, and about 1,000 people gathered at the capitol to rally over the ...
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• WATCH: Julian Bond Speaks Out for Marriage Equality in NJ Senate

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 626
  NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond was one of the big guns brought in during last nights marriage equality hearings in the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee. The marriage bill passed committee 7-6 and now heads to the Senate for a...
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• Highlights of the Merit Selection Hearing

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 122
  On Monday, the Courts Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the pending Merit Selection legislation .  Representative Josh Shapiro (D, Montgomery) chaired the hearing in Subcommittee Chair Don Walko’s (D, Allegheny) absence. Also attending were Minority Subcommittee Chair Tom Creighton ...
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• Julian Bond: Civil Unions Are Separate But Equal

  
  Queerty — Authority: 707
  Julian Bond, the NAACP chairman and Queerty hero, was on hand yesterday at New Jerseys Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gay marriage. And because this is a man of eloquence, he delivered on all the right notes — without sounding preachy, or wiser-than-thou. He also addressed a glaring error in his ...
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• BREAKING: NJ Gay Marriage Bill Will Move Forward To Full Senate Vote

  
  The New Civil Rights Movement — Authority: 475
  As Expected, Narrow Vote Of 7 To 6 After a late start, over seven hours of impassioned speeches from citizens, clergy, scientists, psychologists, and members of the LGBTQ and straight communities, late tonight the New Jersey State Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of moving the gay marriage bill forward. ...
  2 days ago

• Listen: Julian Bond, NAACP Chair, Speaks To NJ Senate Supporting Gay Marriage

  
  The New Civil Rights Movement — Authority: 475
  NAACP Chairman and civil rights icon Julian Bond spoke eloquently earlier today ago to the New Jersey State Senate’s Judiciary Committee to support the same sex marriage bill they are currently debating.
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• NAACP Goes to Court Over Resegregated Schools in NC

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  After years of standing on the sidelines watching the resegregation of American public schools, the NAACP has finally had enough. Their target is Wayne County, North Carolina, which has two districts, one all black (four white students) and poor (94%), and the other 90 percent white and economically stable . And ...
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• NAACP confronts Kansas Representative Bill Otto over his "redneck rap" and the issue of dog whistle politics

  
  The Wichita NAACP Blog — Authority: 119
  Reposted from KTKA.com "Im sorry that I offended you, I wish that I had made some choices of different things," says State Representative Bill Otto of LeRoy. The NAACP has a little piece of mind after confronting Rep. Otto. Glenda Overstreet; Vice President of the NAACP Kansas State Conference says Kansans ...
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• 41st NAACP Image Awards Will Air on Fox

  
  Reality Roll Call — Authority: 127
  The 41ST NAACP IMAGE AWARDS will broadcast live from Los Angeles’ historic Shrine Auditorium Friday, Feb. 26 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. The star-studded broadcast will serve as the momentous conclusion to the NAACP’s year-long centennial celebration.Nominations for the annual award show that ...
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• Merit Selection Hearing Monday in Harrisburg

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 122
  On Monday December 7, the Courts Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the pending Merit Selection legislation .  The hearing will be at 10:00 am in Room G50, Irvis Office, Capitol Building. Testifying in support of implementing a Merit Selection ...
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• Vote 2009: NAACP holds last mayoral forum tonight

  
  Wade on Birmingham — Authority: 506
  Vote 2009: The final chance for voters to meet the candidates as a group takes place tonight.
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• Dems Blast Higher Hurdles for Civil Rights Claims

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (WDCpix) Last year, an Arizona housing developer known for building affordable homes for Hispanics filed a complaint against the City of Yuma, which denied his application to build homes for low to moderate income families in a predominately white high-income neighborhood. The developer sued ...
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• Halle Berry’s Beverly Hills Home: Celebrity Real Estate

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 436
  The first and only woman of African American descent to win an Oscar for Best Actress, Halle Berry was awarded in 2001 for her performance in Monster’s Ball. Starting out as a fashion model and a former Miss USA contestant, Berry has become one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. Countless recognitions and ...
  6 days ago

• Hilary Shelton: Reject the 1,000-Foot Rule

  
  ONE — Authority: 547
  This post comes to us from Hilary Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau / Vice President for Advocacy:HIV / AIDS has affected all of us. Being a child in the 60’s and 70’s, I often liken the struggle against HIV /AIDS to the Vietnam War: For almost everyone in my generation, we [...]
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• The Right to Vote: The Core of Our Representative Democracy

  
  The Wichita NAACP Blog — Authority: 119
  Report from John Payton; President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund  to the The United Nations Forum on Minority Issues The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is the oldest – and has been described as the finest – human rights law firm in American history. We have been involved in ...
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• Did you go to the DISD candidate forum last night?

  
  DALLAS ISD — Authority: 428
  I couldnt be at the NAACP/LULAC forum last night. But if you went, please leave a comment below and fill us in. Did anyone stand out last night? Any candidates provide interesting answers? Some folks have already weighed in on a post from yesterday. Go to the jump to read their comments.
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• Telling the Truth: Immigrants and their communities

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 418
  by ChristinaBlunt Today, December 2, Maryland pastor Lennox Abrigo will be at the White House to discuss immigration reform. According to the New York Times, Abrigo and other pastors across the state have witnessed increases in the number of immigrants in their congregations as well as increases in the problems ...
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• We must not let Big Telecom segregate the Internet

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 109
  By Malkia Cyril, Chris Rabb and Joseph Torres Originally published on The Huffington Post and cross-posted elsewhere When Fox News’ Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a racist this past July, the online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org launched a campaign to convince advertisers to boycott ...
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• What you dont know about Civil Rights CAN hurt you

  
  The Wichita NAACP Blog — Authority: 119
  "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: 747
  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 ...
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