Benjamin Todd Jealous

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July 14, 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Leaders of the country's largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of…
July 13, 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - NAACP President Ben Jealous has chastised the tea party during the convention, saying the movement…
July 12, 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The group wants a meeting with BP's chief executive. Messages left with BP representatives weren't…
July 12, 2010
OPINION - Our nation's children -- from the Gulf Coast to the Iron City -- deserve for all of us…
July 10, 2010
SLIDESHOW - As the NAACP hosts its 101st Convention this week, the organization is looking to a younger generation of…
July 9, 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The NAACP convention, set to start Saturday, also will focus on education and the mounting…
July 9, 2010
OPINION - All communities, including communities of color along the Gulf Coast must be fully restored and receive needed support…
June 1, 2010
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - The voters who elected President Barack Obama in 2008 and the NAACP's members outnumber the people…
May 26, 2010
OPINION - At no time in history has a single liberation movement advanced or been sustained by the interest of…
May 21, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A hotly contested proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" was…
May 17, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's oldest and largest civil rights group voted unanimously at a board meeting in Florida to…
March 17, 2010
VIDEO - Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won…
March 9, 2010
Who among these influential African-Americans support the president or challenge him the most?...
February 20, 2010
Roslyn M. Brock's election as chairman of the NAACP is being hailed by the civil rights organization as a "generational…
February 12, 2010
Here are the highlights of the week that was...
February 10, 2010
In a meeting that many in the African-American community considered a long time coming, President Obama met with black leaders…
February 10, 2010
OPINION - Black leaders still insist the president's travails are born of process and not of substance...
February 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - African-American leaders grappled with how to improve economic opportunities for blacks...
October 2, 2009
ROCKFORD, IIl. (AP) -- The Aug. 24 death of Mark Anthony Barmore has created racial tension in this northern Illinois…
July 17, 2009
As the 100th NAACP Conference wrapped up, theGrio took a look at the organization to examine how it is working…