Next Moves for the NAACP

Civil rights group has a new leader, but can it overcome today’s challenges?

FinalCall.com – Despite major victories in the areas of school deseg­regation, equal housing and employ­ment opportunities, voting rights and anti-lynching laws, the modern day manifestation of these issues—fail­ing schools, predatory lending, un­fair sentencing and disproportionate incarceration rates—are current challenges that must be met head on by the NAACP.

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Open Letter to Reverend Wright

From: Jerome Bonner
Executive Director of Global Village Monitor

First of all let me start by saying that I am a believer, a member of the apostolic faith, the church I occasionally attend is the Temple of Greater Bethel in Phoenix, AZ. If you talk to my wife or pastor they will probably say that I don’t attend enough. But that is not the point.
I have been attending church services off and on for most of my life never realizing that the services I was hearing was called “Liberation Theology. Most of your speeches I have found very enlightening and informative and I agree with most of the things you said. There are ministers in my domination who have been saying the same thing for years, maybe not quite as eloquent as you put it, but basically the same message.

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