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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 (NAACP) from 2008 to 2013. When he was selected to head the NAACP at age 35, he ...
Epperson married Benjamin Jealous, the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , in July 2002. [22] [1] Epperson and Jealous met in 1993, when Epperson replaced Jealous as the intern at the New York national office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. [1]
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous and others, in a section from campaign video further allege that the Koch supported American Legislative Exchange Council's Voter ID Bill, being adopted at state level across the nation, is actually intended to disenfranchise African American, Latino, elderly, young and disabled voters. [8]
Gloucester County Conspiracy. The Gloucester County Conspiracy (September 1663), also known as the Servant's Plot or Birkenhead's Rebellion, is one of the first slave rebellions in America. This event set the stage for many of the slave uprisings that followed in the decades to come. It was the first occurrence of English, Irish, African and ...
In 2012, Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP, called same-sex marriage the "civil rights issue of our times" [68] and Baker insisted that "the conclusion was intuitively obvious to a first-year law student." [69]
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and chief executive officer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Mary Junck, chairman and chief executive officer, Lee Enterprises Monica Lozano, publisher and chief executive officer, La Opinión Lisa MacCallum, managing director and general manager, Nike Foundation
He traveled with NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous to meet with Georgia prison officials. [ 14 ] In 2014, he founded Repairers of the Breach, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization "formed to educate and train religious and other leaders of faith who will pursue policies and organizational strategies for the good of the whole and to ...
The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship is an American award given jointly by Type Media Center (a nonprofit media organization previously associated with The Nation magazine) and the Puffin Foundation. [1] The annual $100,000 award honors artists and others who have "challenged the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative and ...