NAACP won't sue over Richmond at-large mayor plan
The NAACP has no plans to challenge Richmond's new at-large mayoral election plan, the state director of the civil rights organization said Monday. King Salim Khalfani said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has more pressing needs for its money this presidential election year. [more]
The at large plan has enabled former governor Douglass Wilder to run for mayor of Richmond. Wilder was the first Black governor in the U.S.