DR. AND MRS. BENJAMIN HOOKS DONATE $56,000 TO CREATE NAACP NATIONAL LITERACY PROGRAM

Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, Executive Director emeritus, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), announced during the NAACP 2006 Annual Meeting that he and his wife, Frances, will donate $56,000 to create a NAACP National Literacy Program to encourage young children to read.

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HooksReadingProgram.pdf

The Institute for Responsible Citizenship is currently accepting applications for its summer program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Each summer, twelve of the most promising young black male sophomores in the country are given the chance to travel to the nation's capital and engage in prestigious internships while taking rigorous classes at Georgetown. The courses in government and economics are designed to provide these young men with the skills necessary to critically analyze the world's problems while adhering to a deep respect for civil liberties. (More)

State NAACP leaders called for the end of discrimination in the state's educational and political systems at the association's first quarterly meeting this year.

NAACP's Jordan calls for more volunteer effort

"The path of service is the way that we can become whole," David F. Gould III told the crowd at the January 15 celebration of Martin Luther King Day at Bucks County Community College. (More)

DEAR SUPERINTENDENTS, TEACHERS AND FRIENDS OF EDUCATION:

I am thrilled to write you with exciting news for your high school students.

On January 16, 2006, The Oprah Winfrey Show is doing something we've never done before. In addition to announcing my new book club selection, which I promise is mandatory reading for every human being on the planet, I will also announce Oprah's National High School Essay Contest to accompany it. (More)

I write to share good news with you about a new student aid initiative that represents a dramatic step toward promoting math and science education and ensuring America's economic competitiveness in the future. (More)

You have probably heard of "NUD" as a result of the Tom Joyner morning show related to CompUSA. NUD is the acronym for a very subtle and little-known marketing term specifically directed toward people of color. (More)

Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished. (More)

VIEWS FROM A YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHER IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

Have you ever realized the time we entered this world we were all delivered unclothed and without an identity? Shortly after birth we were named and placed into a racial category. Depending upon how you are racially labeled means an easy life for some, or a long hard life for others. (More)

I had never seen the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson cry in public. And he's seldom upstaged. Until, Bill Cosby came to town.

Last week Jackson invited Cosby to the annual Rainbow/PUSH conference for a conversation about controversial remarks the entertainer offered May 17 at an NAACP dinner in Washington,D.C.That's when America's Jell-O Man shook things up by arguing that African Americans were betraying the legacy of civil rights victories. (More)

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