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Derrick Johnson (activist) Derrick Johnson is an American lawyer and humanitarian. He serves as the 17th 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]
September 19, 2024 at 12:15 PM. The NAACP is planning a major mobilization and education campaign aimed at Black voters for the 2024 election. The NAACP plans to spend $20 million encouraging ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Legal Defense Fund, or LDF) is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City. LDF is wholly independent and separate from the NAACP. [1] Although LDF can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the ...
At a time where we are witnessing groundbreaking history, bad actors aim to cast a dark shadow on those very achievements,” Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO, said in a separate statement.
President and CEO of the NAACP Derrick Johnson speaks on Day one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 19, 2024.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. [4][5][6] Over the ...
August 19, 2024 at 5:07 PM. 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 ...
Derrick O'Hara Johnson (born November 22, 1982) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns , twice earning consensus All-American honors.