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 U.S. 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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These days, civil rights leaders are struggling to be heard. NAACP chairman Julian Bond has been trying, to no avail, to get the attention of one leader in particular: President Bush.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. Zell Miller, a popular Georgia Democrat who built a reputation as a reliable supporter of President Bush&#39;s, will keynote the Republican National Convention in New York City as part of a Bush campaign effort to appeal to swing voters in ...
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A document calls for an independent group that could block hirings and firings and conduct investigations.
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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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WASHINGTON - The NAACP revealed Friday that the Internal Revenue Service has warned the 95-year-old civil rights organization that it might lose its tax-exempt status because it publicized a speech by its chairman that criticized the performance of
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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 NAACP is close to making a deal to move its headquarters from Baltimore to the nation's capital, District of Columbia officials and the civil rights group's president said Monday.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights, told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for black Americans.
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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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Black leaders in Congress asked the federal government yesterday to weigh in on the legality of a vote by the Cherokee Nation earlier this month to revoke citizenship from descendants of former tribal slaves.
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Democrat leaders search for a mediator as race for party nomination threatens to drag on until August convention
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NAACP President Kweisi Mfume plans to announce he is stepping down as the head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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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 Democratic National Committee is pressuring Michigan and Florida to hold presidential caucuses so the delegates they lost for holding January primaries could be seated at the national convention, a top Michigan Democrat said Wednesday.
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Legislation faces major hurdle in the House of Delegates, which rejected the ban last year.