photo from Wikimedia Commons Presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke at the 103rd NAACP Annual Convention this past week. I commend Governor Romney for doing a brave thing: speaking to some of his opponents’ most staunch supporters about why he would be a better president. However, this is where my praise stops because Governor Romney took a great opportunity the NAACP gave him to detail his plan for America’s future and brought nothing but camp...
...dized test boycott in Seattle this past January, both of which represented bold challenges to the neoliberal status quo. Philadelphia has had its share of protest as well, as grassroots parent organizations partnered with the NAACP in a lawsuit challenging the city’s planned school closings. In a global context where education has sparked larger, much more radical demonstrations in places such as Chile and Québec, even today’s small, localized pr...
...down a slippery slope to crack cocaine. Eleven sober years later, his story serves as the foundation behind his campaign against Proposition 19. A divide was created in the black community when Alice Huffman, the president of NAACP’s California branch, took a stance in favor of Proposition 19. She argued in favor of civil rights and against racial profiling in drug arrests. However, Huffman’s efforts did not stand a chance against Bis...
...acism and racial inequality and towards the rationale that was later upheld in Grutter – bringing together a diverse learning environment for educational purposes. Ted Shaw, who formerly worked as the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, also commented on the Bakke decision, saying that Justice Powell, the deciding vote, suffered from “myopia” in his decision and that no one talked about affirmative action in terms o...
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