Benjamin Todd Jealous

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NAACP Reminds Tea Party Of Shutdown’s Victims: Whites Make Up 42% of Poor And Get 69% of All Govt Benefits

Victims of the Ted Cruz-inspired shutdown: NAACP’s Ben Jealous breaks it down The federal government shutdown is approaching its third week now. At the ...

Remembering Medgar Evers 50 Years Later

[Remembrance]   Fifty years ago today, a coward killed a hero. As he got out of his car after returning home from an NAACP ...

Wronged For Decades, Black Farmers Still Need Healing

[National: Op-Ed] There is no way to make up for decades of discrimination that crippled the proud history of Black farm ownership in America. ...

BLACKOUT: MILLIONS STILL DISENFRANCHISED BY JIM CROW FELONY LAWS

Kemba Smith-Pradia only regained voting right in 2012 Last week, the Delaware State legislature approved a constitutional amendment to all but remove the last ...

Black Male Teens: ‘Guilty’ Until Proven Innocent

  Robert Zimmerman One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings and some people are still throwing salt on the open wound. Last ...