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Criminal JusticeJuly 16, 2015
How Prison Reform Became a Presidential Priority
Obama’s prison visit would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. But organizing and advocacy created a new consensus.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
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ActivismSeptember 24, 2010
For Jobs, Justice and Education
For nearly two years, the loudest and most insistent voices in American politics have been on the extreme right. At the One Nation, Working Together march, this is going to change.
Benjamin Todd Jealous and Deepak Bhargava
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LawJuly 1, 2009
Saving Troy Davis
The president of the NAACP explains why he has joined a "strange bedfellows" coalition drawn together to fight for the reopening of Troy Davis's capital case.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
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Political FiguresNovember 19, 2008
Bearing the Weight of it All
Barack Obama's electoral victory is momentous but ethereal. Progress is eroded when not pushed forward--and there is still much yet to be done.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
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