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Romney's NAACP outreach a dismal failure

...has gone from slim to none thanks to his performance at the NAACP's annual conference.Romney was booed when he labeled President...who support Romney.He certainly didn't help himself at the NAACP conference by insulting our intelligence.? Jessica M. Strong...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-16/romneys-naacp-outreach-dismal-failure
Opinion
Tea party group on defensive over blog about NAACP

...oust a former chairman who satirized the NAACP in a controversial blog posting. The political...Mark Williams, whose posting referred to NAACP president Benjamin Jealous as "Tom's nephew and NAACP head colored person." Tea Party Express...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072010/sta_678933769.shtml
News
Outside editorial: From the NAACP to the Chamber of Commerce, the battle cry is: Focus on jobs

...the national dialogue heading into the autumn elections. The NAACP's focus on job creation highlighted a six-day convention...for the 10,000 convention goers. She added muscle to the NAACP's efforts to get its ranks into better shape for the ongoing...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072010/opi_678933491.shtml
Opinion
Va. city weighs Confederate flag-flying limits

...especially painful because of the two military leaders' strong ties here.A Virginia NAACP representative could not be immediately reached for comment.The NAACP launched an economic boycott of South Carolina in 1999 about the Confederate flag that...

http://juneauempire.com/2011-09-02/va-city-weighs-confederate-flag-flying-limits
Appeals court upholds key voting rights provision

...Voting Rights Act's most effective protection," said Debo P. Adegbile, interim president and director-counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The fund intervened in the case to defend Section 5 on behalf of several African American...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-05-20/appeals-court-upholds-key-voting-rights
State
Voter ID is a sensible precaution

...disenfranchisement," opponents could not find any registered voters who would be prevented from voting.In Georgia, the NAACP, a plaintiff in the case, could not produce a single member who would be unable to vote because of the ID requirement.As...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-07-28
Opinion
Impressed by Fran

Several weeks ago, I attended the NAACP Annual Dinner. There were three impressive...that Lt. Gov. Ulmer has attended the NAACP dinners over the years whether she was...so well. I would also like to thank the NAACP for their diligence each year in bringing...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102502/let_letter18.shtml
Opinion
It wasn't just Rosa Parks in Montgomery 55 years ago

...veteran. Her husband, Richard, had been active with her in the NAACP in Montgomery since the 1940s. At the time of the boycott...Louise Smith, 18, was arrested for also refusing. But the NAACP deemed the girls too young, and some said too dark-skinned...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112910/opi_743006903.shtml
Opinion
Absent reason, we're easily fooled

...so desperate to push a narrative of the NAACP as a hotbed of anti-white bias that he...racist without caring if she was. The NAACP was so desperate to protect itself from...easily able to move the White House and the NAACP to action (and media titans like Bill...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072810/opi_687347093.shtml
Opinion
Parnell appoints Washington to Anchorage court

...is a priority of his administration. According to Parnell's office, Washington's resume includes work with the Anchorage Youth Court, Crisis Pregnancy Center and NAACP and acting as adjunct faculty at University of Alaska Anchorage.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081110/reg_693503166.shtml
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