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Benjamin Todd Jealous
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Ben Jealous is former President of the NAACP, serving from 2008-2013. He is currently Partner at Kapor Capital.
Obama’s prison visit would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. But organizing and advocacy created a new consensus.
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.
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.
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.
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