NAACP head wants barred delegates seated
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WASHINGTON Â A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states' minority communities.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights.
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NCAA president Myles Brand is urging athletic directors to take a closer look at minority coaching candidates this year.
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A civil rights organization wants Congress to closely examine what it says are abuses in existing guestworker programs before creating a new one to curb illegal immigration.
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National Democrats on Tuesday urged Republican Party chairman Mel Martinez to stop the independent College Republicans from holding "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" events around the country.
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The head of the Democratic Party said Friday blacks have an added incentive to vote in November: Democratic control of the House would give key committee chairmanships to African-American lawmakers.
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Black legislative leaders said Thursday they will propose that Georgia apologize for the state's role in slavery and segregation-era laws.
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Baggage and passenger screeners at the Transportation Security Administration are not allowed to bargain over the terms and conditions of their employment, but the largest federal union hopes to get the Democratic majority in the next Congress to take another look at whether that ban is justified.
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The US Congress asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Saturday to send lawmakers a report justifying a new rule forcing mutual fund boards to have independent chairmen.
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Delegates come together to choose candidates that will form a delegation to meet Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to ask him to stop fighting and join the political process instead during Iraq&#39;s National Conference, August 16, 2004. AP ...
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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson said yesterday that he wants to move ahead this year with a plan that would allow dissatisfied shareholders to propose board candidates under limited conditions.
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Former Gov. James Blanchard said Tuesday he is considering entering the race for Democratic National Committee chairman.
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The US urges Burma to include opposition parties and minority groups as its National Convention reopens.
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The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bruce Gordon, is stepping down after 19 months at the nation's largest civil rights organization, the NAACP said on Sunday.
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Delegates in African National Congress meet ahead of delayed vote in bitter leadership election
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NEW YORK - Abortion-rights protesters and the first Republican delegates descended on President Bush's heavily fortified convention city Saturday as campaign officials said their boss would use the nomination spotlight to defend his hawkish foreign polices and offer a second-term agenda for health care, education and job training.   "He believes it's important for a candidate to talk about what he's done and, most important, where he wants to lead," said adviser Karen Hughes, aboard Bush's campaign bus in Ohio...
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NAACP leaders are questioning the timing of an IRS investigation into the civil-rights group&#39;s tax-exempt status saying the probe is politically motivated.