APNewsBreak: NAACP names new leader for more active future
WASHINGTON (AP) " The NAACP turned to an insider Saturday to help bring the nation's oldest civil rights organization back to prominence.Derrick Johnson, 49, of Jackson, Mississippi, was hired as the NAACP's 19th president and CEO after having served as interim leader since July and previously as vice chairman of the NAACP board of directors.Johnson, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the NAACP will be much more politically active in the coming years and will alter [...]
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