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NAACP Statement on Rachel Dolezal
For 106 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has held a long and proud tradition of receiving support from people of all faiths, races, colors and creeds. NAACP Spokane Washington Branch President Rachel Dolezal is enduring … Continue reading
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Tagged Ethnicity, NAACP, race, Rachel Dolezal, Seattle
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Questions raised about race of Spokane NAACP head
By Spokane Spokesman-Review Controversy is swirling around one of the Inland Northwest’s most prominent civil rights activists, with family members of Rachel Dolezal saying the local leader of the NAACP has been falsely portraying herself as black for years. Dolezal, … Continue reading
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Thousands mark March on Washington
By Alan Gomez & Eliza Collins Tens of thousands gathered Saturday on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the … Continue reading
How Black Churches Helped Fuel ‘The Butler’s’ Big Weekend
By C. Molly Smith The Weinstein Co. appealed heavily to the black faith-based community in promoting Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a strategy that appears to be paying off. Over the weekend, Daniels’ historical drama debuted to a stellar $25 million, … Continue reading
We Are Trayvon
By Benjamin Todd Jealous One and a half million people. As of this morning, more than one million, five hundred thousand people have signed an NAACP petition asking the Department of Justice to pursue federal and civil rights charges against … Continue reading
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wins Injunction in Post-Katrina Housing Discrimination Case
Excellent news, however this is just one battle in a long war. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/naacp-legal-defense-and-educational-fund-wins-injunction-in-post-katrina-housing-discrimination-case-103573424.html
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Tagged discrimination, Fair Housing, housing, Hurricane Katrina, law, Louisiana, NAACP, Road Home Program
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Winning the Right to Vote for Convicted Felons
This is an interesting legal argument. I have never understood why a persons who have served their debt to society are barred from voting. In addition, why the census counts prisoners where they are jailed and not where they lived before they … Continue reading
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Tagged Farrakhan v. Gregoire, felons, law, NAACP, voting, voting rights, Washington
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In America, You’re Still Your Skin Color
By Christopher A. Darden and Michele Noble When Juror B37 detailed to CNN’s Anderson Cooper how she and her fellow jurors came to their verdict, we, as a nation, had a myriad of reactions—some judicial, some moral, and some just plain … Continue reading →