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Kamala Harris, Ben Jealous
March 26, 2018
Former NAACP president Ben Jealous, who is making a bid to be governor of Maryland has won some crucial support…
March 8, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stepped into a minefield when he talked about “the ghetto.” And he only made it
May 17, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP rights group announced Saturday that lawyer and activist Cornell William Brooks would become its new…
March 4, 2014
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Just months after stepping down as head of the nation's largest civil rights organization, former…
October 21, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Congressional Black Caucus Chair Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) has released a statement, announcing Loraine Miller as the…
September 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - For now, those organizations are planning their next steps, separately and together...
September 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Benjamin Todd Jealous announced Monday that he has decided to resign because the work load has limited…
September 9, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Benjamin Jealous took the helm of the NAACP, his predecessor quit following clashes with the…
September 9, 2013
OPINION - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous recently announced he will step down from his position leading the…
September 8, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says…
August 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — NAACP President Ben Jealous said Monday his organization collected petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling…
August 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Saturday, the NAACP acted robustly in concert with various groups, 100 percent behind the cause of…
August 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice violated constitutional rights -- and the NAACP is…
July 14, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP has launched a petition to the Department of Justice, calling for federal prosecution against George…
July 1, 2013
OPINION - With the Fourth of July holiday just around the corner, and as we near the 50-year celebration of…
April 5, 2013
OPINION - A new poll finds that for the first time in over forty years, a clear majority of people…
February 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The gathering was a chance for the president to reiterate his policies and continue dialogue with the…
January 28, 2013
NBC LATINO - A coalition of racial, labor, and religious groups announced today they are encouraged by the Senate bipartisan…
January 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In a recent interview with the Politico, NAACP president Ben Jealous criticized President Barack Obama for the…
January 10, 2013
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Filmmaker Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward for information in the decade-old case of two…