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...handguns. The lawsuit will come on the heels of several suits filed against the industry by cities, including Chicago, that charge a glut of guns supplied to the suburbs has fueled an illegal market in cities, and New Orleans, which claims safety devices on guns are inadequate. N.A.A.C.P. president KWEISI MFUME told TIME that the organization will seek not financial damages but injunctions ordering the industry to make several changes in its distribution and marketing practices. Among them: improved monitoring of distributors and retailers to better ensure handguns don't wind up in criminals' hands, and firmer restrictions against selling...
...lawsuit will come on the heels of several suits filed against the industry by cities: Chicago, for example, charges that a glut of guns supplied to the suburbs has fueled an illegal market in cities, while New Orleans claims that safety devices on guns are inadequate. NAACP president Kweisi Mfume told TIME that the organization will seek not financial damages but injunctions ordering the industry to make several changes in its distribution and marketing practices. Among them: improved monitoring of distributors and retailers to better ensure that handguns don't wind up in criminals' hands, and firmer restrictions against selling...
...Diallo killing has prompted a wave of protests and civil disobedience. More than 140 demonstrators, including Congressman Charles Rangel, former Mayor David Dinkins and N.A.A.C.P. president Kweisi Mfume, have been arrested in front of New York's police headquarters in the past two weeks. The protests are designed to pressure the police department--and especially Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--into addressing racism and brutality in the ranks. And New York City public advocate Mark Green last week called on Police Commissioner Howard Safir to resign, saying Safir has failed to deal adequately with the allegations against his department...
Those days ended five months ago, when Bond took over as chairman. Meanwhile, former Baltimore Congressman Kweisi Mfume, the hapless Chavis' replacement as executive director, has proved to be an adept fund raiser and effective lobbyist. Bond's predecessor as chairman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, did such a good job of cleaning up Gibson's mess that Bond is free to devote himself to the organization's true mission: fighting for racial justice. He's the right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since...
...presidency to empower progressive social movements. The organizing drive of labor's [John] Sweeney is vital as the voice of the worker. Civil rights leaders like [Kweisi] Mfume at the N.A.A.C.P. deserve Clinton's help to focus on the problems of the inner cities and the permanent underclass. Young people should be empowered by the President to get into public service, teaching and combatting poverty and discrimination...