Tag Archives: National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People

Texas Death Row Inmate’s Bid for Resentencing Has Support of Victim, Prosecutor and Ex-Governor

HOUSTON — One morning in July 1995, Phyllis Taylor stood inside her best friend’s house here, face to face with her stepbrother. He was holding a .22-caliber rifle, his eyes bloodshot red. Then he ... Read more

Texas Death Row Inmate’s Resentencing Bid Has Support of Victim and Prosecutor

HOUSTON — One morning in July 1995, Phyllis Taylor stood inside her best friend’s house here, face to face with her stepbrother. He was holding a .22-caliber rifle, his eyes bloodshot red. Then he ... Read more

Blacks See New Patience and High Expectations for Obama

The Rev. Greggory L. Brown, a 59-year-old pastor of a small Lutheran church, committed himself to ministry and a life pursuing social justice on April 4, 1968 — the day the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ... Read more