NAACP President
Even before his election as the 17th president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 2009, Benjamin Todd Jealous already had a resume for grassroots work in the realm of civil rights. From community organizing during his college days at Columbia University, to serving as Director of the U.S. Human Rights Program at Amnesty International, Jealous has made equality his primary focus. His work with the NAACP has allowed him to continue this agenda and achieve gorundbreaking work.
Ben Jealous
Even before his election as the 17th president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 2009, Benjamin Todd Jealous already had a resume for grassroots work in the realm of civil rights. From community organizing during his college days at Columbia University, to serving as Director of the U.S. Human Rights Program at Amnesty International, Jealous has made equality his primary focus. His work with the NAACP has allowed him to continue this agenda and achieve gorundbreaking work.
The NAACP’s Civil Rights Legislative Report Card released April 18 gave failing grades to 46 percent of U.S. senators and 55 percent of House members based on how they voted on “bread and butter” civil rights issues from January 5 to December 23, ...
Conservative group ALEC caves to political and economic pressure and abandons its Public Safety and Elections task force — which is behind the controversial "Stand Your Ground" Law among others — but advocacy groups say the damage has been done.
Benjamin Jealous, the head of the NAACP, says that the spread of voter identification laws represent the largest assault on Black voting rights in years.
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