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New NAACP Seeing More Gay, Diverse Chapter Leaders
By not in system - AOL NewsWORCESTER, Mass. -- The NAACP's newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned to a 30-something white man. Founded more than a century ago to promote black equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is seeing remarkable diversity in its leadership ranks - the result of an aggressive effort over the past four or five years ...
Martin Luther King's Peace Legacy Praised After Arizona Shootings
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- The nation observed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday on Monday with thousands volunteering for service projects and more reflecting on his lessons of nonviolence and civility in the week following the shootings in Arizona. Six people were killed in Tucson and Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is fighting for her life. The violent outburst was a reminder to many gathered at King's former church in Atlanta that the Baptist preacher's message remained relevant nearly four decades after his own untimely death at the hands of an assassin. Attorney General Eric ...
Maine Gov. Changes MLK Plans After Telling NAACP, 'Kiss My Butt'
By not in system - AOL NewsWATERVILLE, Maine -- Gov. Paul LePage changed his Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend plans and showed up at a breakfast honoring the slain civil rights leader Monday, days after he said critics of his decision to skip other events could "kiss my butt." He even joined some of the participants in an African dance. The Republican governor's appearance was organized in the days after he made the remark Friday, responding to a reporter's question about criticism he had received over his decision not to attend the state NAACP's annual King Day celebrations. He said at the time that he didn't ...
Maine's New Governor, Paul LePage, Tells NAACP to 'Kiss My Butt'
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyMaine's new governor has been in office for less than two weeks, but he's already created a stir after telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt." Paul LePage, the state's first Republican governor in 16 years, made the remark last week after drawing criticism from the civil rights organization for saying he would not attend events commemorating Martin Luther King Day. "They are a special interest," he told the Portland's WCSH-TV. "End of story. And I'm not going to be held hostage by special interests. And if they want, they can look at my family picture. My son happens to be black, so they can ...
School Desegregation Battle: A Thing of the Past . . . and the Present
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- "Courage: The Carolina Story That Changed America" has returned to its original home at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte after a long time on the road. It took the story of the South Carolina case that led to the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision -- striking down school segregation -- to Atlanta, Baltimore, New York and the Museum of Tolerance, a Simon Wiesenthal Center museum in Los Angeles. Parts of the exhibition were used in a tour of South African museums arranged by the U.S. State Department. As it moves back into ...
Civil War, 150 Years Later, Still Divides Our Nation
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsMANASSAS, Va. – When National Park Service rangers fired a New Year's cannon shot at this Civil War battleground to hail the arrival of 2011, they also ushered in the start of a four-year commemoration of the war's 150th anniversary. The events include a multitude of battle re-enactments, lecture series, readings, concerts and plays that will be held on the battle fields tended to by the Park Service and in private estates from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico to New York. But the slate of commemorations is also fraught with political peril. Deep divisions over why the war was fought ...
Kidney Donation Set as Condition of Miss. Sisters' Parole
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIf two Mississippi sisters serving life in prison for an armed robbery that netted $11 want to go free, one will have to donate a kidney to the other. Gov. Haley Barbour has pardoned Gladys and Jamie Scott, black women whose case has been a cause celebre among civil rights activists. But to be released, Gladys, 36, must donate a kidney to her 38-year-old sister, Jamie, who requires dialysis and needs a transplant. There was no grumbling about the odd condition of the Scotts' release. Their lawyer called the governor's decision a victory and noted that Gladys Scott had already planned to ...
Haley Barbour to Free Imprisoned Sisters -- but One Must Donate Kidney to the Other
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he would free two sisters serving life sentences for armed robbery, citing the poor health of one of the women, who, under terms of the release, is required to receive a kidney transplant from her younger sibling. The case of Jamie Scott, 38, and Gladys Scott, 36, has become a cause celebre for civil rights groups, which assert that the women's race -- African American -- was cause for their unusually long sentences, according to the Washington Post. Their crime: luring two men into an ambush where accomplices smacked the victims with a shotgun and robbed ...
A Son of Mississippi: Haley Barbour And the Citizens Councils
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012, raised blood pressures on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line this week with comments he made recently about his old home town. Speaking to his interviewer at the Weekly Standard, in a story entitled "The Boy from Yazoo City," Gov. Barbour spoke glowingly about the integration of public schools back in 1970. He said: "You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody ...
Dance, Protests Mark 150 Years Since SC Left US
By not in system - AOL NewsCHARLESTON, S.C. (Dec. 20) - The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a "Secession Ball," commemorating South Carolina's decision exactly 150 years ago to secede from the United States of America. As blacks and whites gathered in the twilight with electric candles and signs for an NAACP protest, a predominantly white group of men in old-fashioned tuxedos and women in long-flowing dresses and gloves stopped to watch and take pictures before going into the Charleston auditorium where the ball was taking place. Bruce Smith, ...
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