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The NAACP of Snohomish County Monday announced a name change as well as new executive committee members.
The organization will now be known as NAACP Snohomish County .
“2020 was a year of great turmoil, loss, and strife for our community and our country, but even in the most troubled times, we have had great opportunities for development and the organizational changes we are making will position us to provide greater assistance to our communities in 2021 and beyond,” said Dr. Janice Greene, president of NAACP Snohomish County.
In November 2020, the branch conducted its biennial elections in which Dr. Janice Greene was elected to serve another term as president; Louis Harris, Sandra Palmer, and Nigel Lindsey were elected vice presidents; Marcia Miller was elected branch secretary; and John Agyapong was elected branch treasurer.
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that is one of the most that putting that on the screen. and i don t think it doesn t necessarily mean that s going to persuade the 65% of people who are for the death penalty but that seems like a sort of grim company in certain one observation i d like to make about that is that in popular support for the death penalty in britain where it s not been legal for a very long time, 65% of the population, that s true across europe and an elite consensus is there it shouldn t be in place elite consensus for all of these reasons. that s exactly right. the other thing i want to throw out about the racism of the criminal justice system, ed glazer years ago conducted a fascinating study looking at vehicular homicide. no question of if this person is a drug dealer. he found black victims, people who killed them would get lower sentences. people talk about racism of the criminal justice system in the sense that people of disadvantaged backgrounds
this is the cbs evening news with russ mitchell. mitchell: good evening. for army engineers hoping to keep ahead of the rising mississippi, it is the most drastic step yet. this afternoon they opened the first of the floodgates of the morganza spillway, up stream from baton rouge and new orlea orleans. potentially flooding thousands of square miles of countryside. dean reynolds is in organza with the very latest. reporter: good evening, russ. officials told us this afternoon everyone in the area the water will take 24 hours to reach has already departed and as you can see behind me, with good reason. only one of the 125 gates on this 4,000-foot-long spillway was opened, a cautious first step to give everyone and everything a chance to flee. we ll open one bay today. we ll open one or two tomorrow. and then we ll open gates based upon the river conditions as they exist. reporter: the mississippi is cresting now near helena, arkansas, over 250 miles north of the morga
thanks to remarkable new technology. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with russ mitchell. mitchell: good evening. for army engineers hoping to keep ahead of the rising mississippi, it is the most drastic step yet. this afternoon they opened the first of the floodgates of the morganza spillway, up stream from baton rouge and new orlea orleans. potentially flooding thousands of square miles of countryside. dean reynolds is in organza with the very latest. reporter: good evening, russ. officials told us this afternoon everyone in the area the water will take 24 hours to reach has already departed and as you can see behind me, with good reason. only one of the 125 gates on this 4,000-foot-long spillway was opened, a cautious first step to give everyone and everything a chance to flee. we ll open one bay today. we ll open one or two tomorrow. and then we ll open gates based upon the river conditions as they exist. reporter: the mississippi is cres