Foundation Leader Chosen to Head NAACP

Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the Rosenberg Foundation, in San Francisco, has been named the new president of the NAACP, reports the Sun, in Baltimore.

Mr. Jealous, 35, was previously director of Amnesty International’s human-rights program and worked as executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 black community newspapers, according to the NAACP’s announcement of his appointment.

Mr. Jealous takes over for Bruce Gordon, who resigned last year after conflicts with the organization’s board of directors, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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