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Just days after the Anne Arundel County branch of the NAACP filed a complaint alleging "disparate treatment" of African-American students and teachers, school board members said the superintendent and school system should be recognized for their continuing efforts to address the matter. On Tuesday, Superintendent Kevin Maxwell, school system staff, community leaders and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held what the sides called a productive meeting to discuss the complaint.

The Anne Arundel County branch of the NAACP is seeking a federal Justice Department probe of the county's Police Department, claiming that there is a lack of diversity in the department and not enough promotion opportunities for black officers. Jacqueline Allsup, president of the county branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she sent a letter Monday to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, asking her to make a formal request for a Justice Department investigation.

Anne Arundel County schools have not made sufficient progress in eliminating racial bias from its student disciplinary practices, according to a civil rights complaint filed by the NAACP. The complaint, filed with the civil rights office of the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, alleges that the numbers of African-American students referred for discipline and suspended have hardly changed since a similar complaint in 2004. That complaint led to an improvement plan agreed to in 2005 by the NAACP and the school system.

The Howard County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was privileged to honor our Howard County Public School superintendent on Tuesday, June 21. Rhonda Jones, education chairperson of the Maryland NAACP, presented Sydney Cousin with a plaque which expressed appreciation for his "outstanding vision, dedication and commitment to excellence in education. " Cameron Carter,Youth Council president of the Howard County NAACP, also presented Dr. Cousin a plaque, honoring him for his "tireless and steadfast service to the students of Howard County.

The Howard County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was privileged to honor our Howard County Public School Superintendent June 21. On behalf of Rhonda Jones, education chairwoman of the Maryland NAACP, we presented Sidney Cousin with a plaque which expressed appreciation for his "outstanding vision, dedication and commitment to excellence in education. " Cameron Carter,Youth Council president of the Howard County NAACP, also presented Cousin a plaque, honoring him for his "tireless and steadfast service to the students of Howard County.

The Anne Arundel County branch of the NAACP held a show of support Tuesday afternoon for Carl O. Snowden, the head of the state attorney general's civil rights office. The event came on the heels of Snowden's appeal of a drunken-driving conviction. Several community leaders, including elected officials and the president of the state NAACP, spoke so effusively about Snowden's four decades of community activism that Snowden, 57, reminded those in attendance at the Wiley H. Bates Legacy Center in Annapolis that it was "not a eulogy.

A generational change is taking place within Howard County's venerable chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with the retirement of longtime president Jenkins Odoms Jr., 71, and the selection of 49-year-old David S. Steele. The change in officers in the 65-year-old organization took place at ceremonies Monday night at the Ridgely Community Center on Mission road in Jessup, though Steele remains president-elect until his term officially begins Jan. 1. The contrast in the two leaders' backgrounds indicates the depth of the change.

The calls by "black community and civil rights leaders" for the disbanding of the Shomrim neighborhood patrol after the incident in which a black teenager was roughed up seem a little overwrought, especially the remark by Rev. Cortly Witherspoon that "this kind of activity has caused riots in other parts of the country" and the statement made by the former head of the NAACP that the "African-American community is very concerned about what happened....

The Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appears to have elected a city social services officials as its president this week, making Tessa Hill-Aston the first woman to serve in the top local office in almost 30 years. A final tally of votes was not available Wednesday, but early results showed Hill-Aston leading her opponent, former longtime branch president G.I. Johnson, by large margins. Her slate of preferred candidates also looked to have made a clean sweep of positions on the branch's governing body.