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  • Report: Award to Sterling Wasn’t the First Questionable Move for LA’s NAACP President

    Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Michigan Citizen. Leon Jenkins, the Los Angeles branch NAACP president who awarded LA Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling with a Lifetime Achievement award among other commendations, lived, worked and won notoriety in Detroit. Jenkins was a 36th District Court judge between 1984 and 1987. During that…

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    Zenobia Jeffries






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    May 1, 2014
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