With president&#39;s resignation, civil rights group again in turmoil
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ATLANTA -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is in turmoil again -- this time with the resignation of its president, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.
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Kweisi Mfume resigned as president and chief executive officer of the NAACP yesterday, saying he would end nine years at the head of the nation&#39;s oldest and largest civil rights organization at the end of the year.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board member who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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Â· Change backed by police and civil rights groupsÂ· New review to examine practicality and safeguards
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ELEANOR HALL: The United Nation&#39;s chief is facing intense criticism on another issue today too. UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is under increasing pressure to resign over the corruption allegations surrounding
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Accusations of corruption levied against both the president and his family have led a group of activists to protest for his resignation.
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WASHINGTON Jiang Zemin&#39;s surprise resignation of his chairmanship of China&#39;s Central Military Commission on Sunday marks a critical turning point in an otherwise murky and uncertain process of leadership succession in Beijing that began nearly two years
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Secretary of State Colin Powell and three other cabinet members have resigned, escalating the shakeup of President George W. Bush&#39;s second-term team.
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By the Editor. AS was being envisionedâthe US Secretary of State Colin Powellâhas tendered his resignation from his exalted status with the advent of the second term of President George W Bush in the White
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In historical terms, the wave of departures from President Bush&#39;s first-term Cabinet and his choices to replace them for his second are a narrative of continuity rather than change.
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Jacques's resignation as head of the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization, comes amid turmoil among gays over the Nov. 2 election and the passage of constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage in 11 states.
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Key players in the political crisis meet for the first time since the elections as mass demonstrations continue.
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More lawyers may follow the lead of a top QC who has resigned following the Law Lordsâ damning verdict on the Governmentâs anti-terror laws, a civil rights group claimed today.
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Six months before the November elections, alarms sounded throughout the labor movement. A flurry of memos from the field warned that high-level rancor from the 2005 breakup of the AFL-CIO was gumming up political mobilization on the ground, threatening to blow the Democrats' opportunity to retake Congress....
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Bruce S. Gordon, the former telecom executive who was named NAACP president in a surprise choice less than two years ago, has resigned after a long-running disagreement with the group's 64-member board over how to steward the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
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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.
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An event steeped in civil rights symbolism offers rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama an opportunity to show unity with the black community while they spar over support from a crucial Democratic constituency.