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One year after black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by a white police officer, sparking protests and a year of heightened attention to the issue of police treatment of the black community, public attitude has far outpaced legislative change, the president of the NAACP said Sunday. There has been a seismic sh stanley cup ift in American attitude but only a glacial shift in legislative action, Cornell William Brooks said on CBS Face the Nation Sunday. He said that while 60 percent of Americans say there is a need for fundamental change in equal rights in America, just 40 percent of legislatures have taken even some action to hold police departments accoun stanley flask table.Brooks also said that Congress has taken steps toward counting the number of deaths of black Americans at the hands of police, but have not actually taken any action. We know where communities are the subject of police protection as opposed to objects of suspicious police officers are safer as are communities, but we have not seen action, Brooks said.The NAACP and others are participating in a march called America s Journey for Justice that began in Selma, Alabama earlier this month and will end in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 15 to call on Congress to act. stanley quencher He said the marchers want Congress to pass laws to end racial profiling and increase accountability for police officers, and they want communities to retrain their officers and use evidence-based Hevg What to know about Tuesday s West Virginia GOP primary
Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday. He will have a role as one of my advisers, Barack Obama stanley becher said on NBC s Today in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush s former secretary of state, endorsed him. Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that s a good fit for him, is something we d have to discuss, Obama said. Being a top presidential adviser, especially on foreign policy, would be familiar ground to Powell on a subject that s relatively new to the freshman Illinois senator. Obama has struggled to establish his foreign policy credentials against GOP candidate John McCain, a decorated military veteran, former prisoner of war and ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.In the NBC interview, Obama said Powell did no stanley vaso t give him a heads-up before he crossed party lines and endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate on the network s Meet the Press a day earlier. In that interview, Powell called Obama a transformational figure stanley thermoskannen in the nation s history and expressed disappointment in some of McCain s campaign tactics. But, Powell said, he didn t plan to hit the campaign trail with Obama before the Nov. 4 election. Read more about Powell s endorsement I won t lie to you, I would love to have him at any stop, Obama said with a grin Monday. Obviously, if he w