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Interview: NAACP's New Chair, Roslyn Brock
This afternoon the NAACP elected its youngest board chair in history: health care advocacy professional Roslyn Brock. Though only 44 years old, the native Floridian is already a 25-year veteran of the civil rights organization. Most recently NAACP vice chair, Brock is a protégé of the outgoing chairman, civil rights legend Julian Bond. Bond is…
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Rangel Broke Ethics Rules For Island Junkets With CBC Members
The House ethics committee has found that one of Congress’s most powerful black lawmakers violated House rules, but didn’t know it. Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Charlie Rangel (D, New York) violated House rules by failing to properly disclose financial details of trips to the Caribbean, according to senior congressional officials on Thursday. The…
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Van Jones Sets the Record Straight
Tonight’s NAACP Image Awards telecast isn’t just about recognizing black Hollywood. The group is giving its President’s Award to Van Jones, the erstwhile national “green jobs czar” who was forced out of the Obama administration last year after he became a lightning rod for right-wing ire. Jones, 41, may be “the most misunderstood man in…
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Benjamin Hooks and the GOP
As the nation mourns the death of civil rights warrior Benjamin Hooks, who lead the NAACP from 1977 to 1992 as executive director, it’s easy to forget one important thing that distinguished him from many civil rights leaders: his close ties to the Republican Party. It was under a Republican administration — Richard Nixon’s —…
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NAACP Leader Benjamin Hooks Dies
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter.
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Lena Horne's Life in Images
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter. Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917 (she is seen here at Lena Horne Homecoming Day in August 1947). She dropped out of school at 16 to support her ailing mother and joined…
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Scenes From Rush Philanthropic's Annual East Hampton Bash
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter. Actor Anthony Anderson (Law and Order) was the evening’s emcee. Here, Egami Consulting Group founder Teneshia Jackson (right) is showing him around the tent where much of the evening’s festivities were held. The theme for Rush Philanthropic’s primary annual fundraiser was “A…
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Wyclef Barred From Running for Haiti's Presidency
All the speculation about Wyclef Jean’s presidential bid in Haiti was for naught, because he’s ineligible to run. So said an electoral commission yesterday. The sticking point: five consecutive years of residency in Haiti, which he does not have. “It is with a heavy heart that I tell you today that the board of elections…
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Wyclef: Not Abandoning Presidential Bid After All
Late Friday, Wyclef Jean said that he accepted a Haitian electoral commission’s decision that he is ineligible to run for that country’s highest position. What a difference a weekend makes. On Sunday, EW.com reported the Haiti-born hip-hop star’s change of heart: “After careful consideration and much soul-searching, I have made the decision to contest Haiti’s…
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Scenes From Restoring Honor and Reclaiming the Dream Rallies
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter. On a sunny Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, Beck’s faithful gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial while civil rights activists and their followers marched several miles from Dunbar High School to the future site of the Martin Luther King,…
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