A Position Paper by Rev. Jerome C. Chambers, President of Champaign County NAACP “For 100 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has played a pivotal role in shaping a national agenda to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of African Americans and other people who have faced historical…

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The recent attempt to defend the merits of the use of force has opened a “Pandora’s Box” of complex questions.  What would generally be perceived as “making its wording more clearly” depends largely clear to whom.  If this “wording” is aimed at those sworn to protect and serve, the bullet still does not have a…

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The question of all questions has been sufficiently asked, “Where do we go from here?”  Suffice it to say, there are many roads to Champaign, which causes one to choose how to get into the city.  The present debacle has not gone unnoticed by the feeble-in-thought to the most eloquent summarizations, all of which are…

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When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters-one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Wherever there is crisis there is danger, but if you have a group of people that can…

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By Rev. Jerome C. Chambers, President Champaign County NAACP It’s that time again and the last four years will bring new voters to make choices for the candidates that best express what they want in government, be it local county, state or national. The people who vote regularly, election after election know what is at…

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