Philly NAACP

It’s 2011 starting point of the second decade of a new century. Democracy is breaking out in parts of globe where most rational people just a year ago had no clue ordinary citizens would risk their lives to march unarmed in their streets demanding their entrenched dictators give up power.

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Reforming the nation’s criminal-justice system is one of the most urgent civil rights Issues of our time. One shocking fact illustrates why: More African-American men are entangled in the criminal-Justice system today than were enslaved in 1850.

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As early as Tuesday, March 29, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on H.R, 471, the mis-named Scholarships for Opportunities and Results Act. The NAACP is vigorously opposed to this legislation which extends and expands a pilot program of school vouchers in the District of Columbia…

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Without the direct intervention of the new governor, in four short weeks these tens of thousands of poor Pennsylvanians will lose their health coverage and some will most surely get sick and a few will die. So far, the Corbett administration has remained tight-fisted and mute.

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The new leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, which was sworn in at noon on Wednesday, January 5, 2011, is leading a charge to repeal the Health Care reform legislation, which the NAACP fought so hard to see enacted last year.

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Bob Casey spearheaded a letter signed by 13 of his Senate colleagues urging the Obama Administration to provide a sustained level of funding for the Emergency Food Assistance Program or TEFAP which provides funding for food banks to purchase food.

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The 1940’s forged the Baby Boomer generation. Most of us in this room tonight were born in that decade. Many of the borders of countries we fight to protect or defeat today were drawn in latter half of that decade which ended World War II.

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Shouting heads spewing radical messages permeate every political conversation today. Once respected news broadcasters these days routinely relay outrageous messages from an assortment of bloggers without first establishing their credibility.

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On October 2, 2010, the NAACP will be part of national coalition of civil and human rights groups, religious denominations, labor unions and many others who will lead tens of thousands of Americans to Washington to demand jobs, justice and education for all Americans.

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As Philadelphia seeks ways to reduce expenses, some are suggesting the Sheriffs Office be eliminated. Councilman Frank DiCicco, who also works part-time as a real estate agent, has introduced a proposed amendment to the City Charter that, if approved by the voters, would eliminate the Sheriff’s Office.

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