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Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer who is the current president and CEO of the NAACP. [1] He had previously served as president of its Mississippi state chapter, [2] and vice chairman of its board of directors. [1]
Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American civil rights leader, environmentalist and executive director of the Sierra Club.He served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 2008 to 2013.
Derrick Lee Foward (born April 26, 1968) is an American social activist and leader in the US civil rights movement.Foward is a NAACP Image Award winning activist and a Dayton, Ohio, native.
Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, took an apparent jab at former President Trump’s “Black job” remarks in his opening statement at the Democratic National Convention on ...
The accusations are the latest voiced publicly in a heated dispute gripping the North Carolina NAACP. One camp accuses former leaders of financial mismanagement and more.
NAACP staff, volunteers, and allies marched 1,002 miles from Selma, AL to Washington, DC to demonstrate the urgency of voting rights and police reform. [21] America's Journey for Justice – and the thousands who marched by day and slept in synagogues and church halls by night – worked to consolidate support among progressive organizations to ...
The NAACP also wrote to USC President Michael Amiridis last Friday, arguing the event violated university policy and promotional materials violated South Carolina’s laws against obscenity.
He was ranked #6 on Fortune magazine's list of the “50 Most Powerful Black Executives” in July 2002. Black Enterprise magazine named him executive of the year in 1998. Gordon is a member of the boards of CBS Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and Tyco International, Ltd., where he serves as lead director. He is a diversity ...