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14 Nov 2005, 12:34 pm
(Someone who really is able to distinguish between secrecy in the name of national security and treasonous leaking for political gain.)Allen was the driving force to replace science-based sex education with the failed policy of teaching that only abstinence prevents AIDS. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 9:00 am by Neil Schoenherr
“Several school districts around the nation have adopted policies that prevent students from wearing their hair in braids, twists, dreadlocks and Afros, and even Afro puffs,” said Kimberly Norwood, the Henry H. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 8:21 am by Margaret Wood
  The Niagara Movement came into being in 1905, while the National Urban League was established in 1910, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in 1915. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 12:46 pm by Suzanne Ito
Sometimes characterized as "worse than slavery," the convict lease system persisted into the 20th century, and ending it was a priority for the NAACP and other civil rights organizations. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 4:00 am by Jamie LaPlante
The US Chamber of Commerce and the NAACP (and 73 other civil rights groups) separately wrote Congress in opposition to the proposal, which presently is the subject of a Congressional hearing. [read post]
Among the broad and ideologically diverse coalition of organizations currently pressing for reform of the sentencing disparity includes the NAACP; Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; American Bar Association; the National District Attorneys Association; Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association; National Association of Evangelicals; Prison Fellowship; the International Union of Police Associations; and dozens of former federal prosecutors and judges. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 10:07 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Karen Georgia Thompson, National United Church of Christ’s Minister for Racial Justice Imam Taha Hassane, Islamic Center of San Diego Kevin Keenan, Executive Director, San Diego ACLU Elizabeth Maldonado, Chair, San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium Pedro Rios, Director, San Diego AFSC Lei-Chala Wilson, President, NAACP of San… [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 11:22 am by Steve Hall
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 2:40 pm by Francisco Macías
I have been making use of the original National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) papers since the 1990s, as well as papers of individuals such as Thurgood Marshall, and the Houston family (Charles Hamilton Houston and his father, William LePre Houston). [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 10:14 am by jlucivero
Previously, Swarns spent more than a decade at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 10:05 am by Mary L. Dudziak
If civil rights advances aided U.S. foreign relations, then the NAACP could argue that its effort to change the nation’s racial practices were not un-American, but instead strengthened the country.When American judges and legal scholars discuss the impact of American law around the world, they tend to focus on the question of whether other nations draw from the American model. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 8:40 am by Christine Corcos
Constance Baker Motley at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund (NAACP LDF), who was the first African American woman to argue before the high court, argued ten race discrimination cases before the high court between 1961 and 1964, winning nine of them. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 9:42 am by Erin Miller
  If civil rights advances aided U.S. foreign relations, then the NAACP could argue that its effort to change the nation’s racial practices were not un-American, but instead strengthened the country. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But the lawyers who have helped to propel their case to the nation’s highest court have a far more powerful backer: petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch. [read post]
15 Jun 2022, 4:49 am by Bernard Bell
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 33 F.4th 593 (2022), the D.C. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 12:35 pm by Guest Blogger
The NAACP's brief filed in support of neither party in McDonald correctly describes these cases as "part of a dreadful chapter in the history of this nation. [read post]