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NAACP blasts Lexington Market’s beer policy
- At Baltimore’s Lexington Market, cold beer is poured fresh from the tap — but there’s a catch.
- At Baltimore’s Lexington Market, cold beer is poured fresh from the tap — but there’s a catch.
NAACP officials continue probe into sludge study
- The NAACP still has questions about how a study was conducted in which treated human waste was tilled into poor, black families’ yards to reduce high lead levels in Baltimore City.
NAACP president choice a ‘generational statement’
- The NAACP’s choice of a 35-year-old to head the civil rights group represents a “generational statement” that the organization hopes will appeal to young black Americans.
NAACP makes history with new president
- The NAACP picked the youngest president in its history Saturday — Benjamin T. Jealous, a 35-year-old former newspaper editor and human rights activist.
Task force urged for police-involved shootings
- The state’s NAACP is calling on Attorney General Doug Gansler to create a task force on police-involved shootings in Maryland.
NAACP calls for statewide rally to protest killings by police
- New York City police officers gunned down Sean Bell on the eve of his wedding in a fusillade of 50 bullets. A Baltimore police officer shot Edward Lamont Hunt twice in the back, even though he was unarmed. Staff at the Bowling Brook juvenile facility in Carroll County held Isaiah Simmons III, 17, face-down for three hours until he stopped breathing.
NAACP seeks probe into sludge spreading in black communities
- Maryland’s NAACP is calling for a state and federal criminal investigation into Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for spreading sewage sludge in poor, black communities in Baltimore.
Family of dead teen calls for investigation
- The NAACP and the family of a teen who died at a Carroll County group home after staffers restrained him have requested an investigation into the county state’s attorney, claiming he did not press manslaughter charges because the victim was black.