By Eliz Dowdy

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous issued the following statement today after a careful investigation into the presentation of former USDA Official, Shirley Sherrod.

The NAACP has a zero tolerance policy against racial discrimination, whether practiced by blacks, whites, or any other group.

The NAACP also has long championed and embraced transformation by people who have moved beyond racial bias. Most notably, we have done so for late Alabama Governor George Wallace and late US Senator Robert Byrd--each a man who had associated with and supported white supremacists and their cause before embracing civil rights for all.

By Dianne Anderson

Excitement around literacy is something that many parents have long forgotten from their younger school days, if it ever was there, with the rise of the internet and email in the TTYL generation – Talk To Ya Later.

But for book lovers everywhere, there’s just something extra special about the smell of fresh ink in a new textbook on that first day of school.

It’s a thrill that Dr. Owusu Hodari hopes to evoke with 240 little kids and their parents during the next year through her new parent bonding and books program.