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NAACP to challenge voter ID laws nationwide
3:17 PM on 11/10/2011
OPINION - Our nation is in the midst of a 100-year flood of extremist attacks on voting rights. The goal: to block access to the polls for people of color, the elderly, and students...
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Misplaced priorities create a prison boom, education bust
11:06 AM on 04/07/2011
OPINION - Over the years, as states escalated spending on prisons, funding for education suffered...
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Katrina's lessons still not learned 5 years later
5:23 PM on 08/28/2010
OPINION - Without a shift in how energy policies are made and by whom, our disastrous trajectory toward peril will be unabated...
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Putting America back to work is NAACP's first priority
8:08 AM on 07/12/2010
OPINION - Our nation's children -- from the Gulf Coast to the Iron City -- deserve for all of us to fight for a better tomorrow like their very lives depend on it...
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NAACP: What we want to see from BP
12:30 PM on 07/09/2010
OPINION - All communities, including communities of color along the Gulf Coast must be fully restored and receive needed support and assistance from BP...
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NAACP: Why we partnered with Wells Fargo
6:25 PM on 04/30/2010
OPINION - We understand, Mr. Boyce. We know you're an ally and a friend of the NAACP. We know some people just don't believe anyone will hold their supporters accountable, even though we have done so for a century...
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NAACP: Five things you can do to help pass health care reform
7:04 AM on 11/10/2009
OPINION - There are five key things that must be done and that we can do to ensure that the Senate passes a real health care reform bill with a strong public option...
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Rockford killing highlights national dilemma with police conduct
10:02 AM on 10/01/2009
OPINION - The United States remains the only country in the Western world without national standards for the use of police force, or with ongoing federal training for officers...
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Personal responsibility alone won't fix structural inequalities
7:11 AM on 09/22/2009
OPINION - Families often face enormous structural barriers to success, barriers that can impede even the most conscientious, tenacious and, yes, responsible parents...
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Demand justice for Troy Davis
8:18 AM on 06/24/2009
In Georgia, a man named Troy Davis sits on Death Row despite unassailable evidence pointing to his innocence. It is the most compelling case of innocence in decades. Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail despite the fact that no physical evidence exists...
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