July 9, 2012 Comments Off on NAACP chief: Voter ID fight akin to ’60s battles
HOUSTON — The head of the NAACP on Monday likened the group’s fight against conservative-backed voter ID laws that have been passed in several states to the great civil rights battles of the 1960s. Benjamin Todd Jealous, the CEO and ...
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Read More »June 5, 2012 Comments Off on Committee looks into race, incarceration
About 74 percent of inmates in Maryland’s prisons are black — a racial gap one state committee wants to close, though it does not yet know how. Nine of the 17 members of Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission ...
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Read More »May 21, 2012 Comments Off on NAACP chief: Marriage equality is a civil right
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group’s resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support civil marriage equality as a civil right if the question is put to voters on the ballot in Maryland or other ...
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Read More »January 26, 2012 Comments Off on NAACP head to give keynote at LGBT conference
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous will deliver the keynote speech at a national conference on rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Jealous is scheduled to speak at the conference Thursday night in Baltimore. Under Jealous, the National Association ...
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Read More »January 6, 2012 Comments Off on Kweisi Mfume endorses Sen. Cardin
Former Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume is endorsing Sen. Ben Cardin’s bid for re-election as the senator faces a Democratic primary challenge. Cardin’s campaign announced Mfume’s support Friday. Mfume, the former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement ...
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Read More »July 27, 2011 Comments Off on NAACP lays out plans to build voter turnout
LOS ANGELES — The NAACP plans a big push to increase minority turnout in the 2012 elections, hoping to gain political influence and turn back what the civil rights group says are efforts in various states to deny minorities the ...
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Read More »July 25, 2011 1 Comment
LOS ANGELES — The NAACP plans to spend the next year fighting against a slew of voting laws that it says disenfranchise huge swaths of minority voters, the civil rights organization’s president said at the group’s convention on Monday. Benjamin ...
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