Environmental Organizations Applaud Nation's First Coal Plant to Limit Global Warming Pollution
On August 15, Xcel Energy announced a ground-breaking proposal to deploy the nation's first coal power plant to reduce global[…]
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Landmark New National Program to Collect Mercury Switches from Automobiles
A landmark agreement was announced on August 11th that will greatly reduce a major source of mercury from the environment[…]
Read moreWorking Poor Beware: Read the Fine Print in
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Last month's news of the U.S. House of Representatives mulling[…]
Read moreWanted: Drum Majors for the 21st Century Civil Rights Movement
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina upon us, who[…]
Read moreWorking Together To Bring Back Our Inner Cities
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League A new breed of urban mayors appears to be bringing[…]
Read moreEmpowerment: The Final Frontier of African-American Development in the United States
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Years ago, the grandfather of Time Warner Chairman Dick Parsons[…]
Read moreNAACP, NAHB Release Groundbreaking Report On Housing
On August 30th, 2006 – A joint housing policy report on ways to expand housing opportunity for minority households was[…]
Read moreJustice Department Makes Wrong Choice by Supporting Integration Challenges
NAACP officials express disappointment that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will side with students who claim they were unconstitutionally[…]
Read moreNAACP Report Finds Thousands on Mississippi's Gulf Coast Still Struggle to Rebuild Homes and Their Lives
Despite billions of federal dollars earmarked for rebuilding the Katrina-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast, a special report finds that many of[…]
Read moreAIDS/HIV Editorial
by Julian Bond It's been 25 years since we first learned of a disease that was killing a handful of[…]
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