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...Foundation Director S. Allen Counter said in an emailed statement, "Wyclef Jean was honored in December 2009, by the Nobel Concert Committee when he was asked to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert inn Oslo. Two months later, on February 26, 2010, Jean was honored by the venerable NAACP for his humanitarian efforts over the years in his native Haiti... He accepted our invitation and visited Harvard College on February 27, 2010 as the 2010 Cultural Rhythms Artist of the Year, based on his nomination by students for his contributions to the performing arts and his humanitarian work with...
BENJAMIN JEALOUS, president and CEO of the NAACP, defending the organization's bestowal of an Image Award on former White House green czar Van Jones, despite his resignation last fall over rumors about his alleged radical past...
...expanse of abandoned buildings, bulldozed lots and forgotten history. Around 3,000 people live in Cairo (pronounced Kay-ro), a third of them below the poverty line. "I describe this town in three words," says Preston Ewing Jr., Cairo's unofficial historian and former president of the local NAACP chapter: "poor, black and ugly." (See the best pictures...
...member of Harvard’s NAACP chapter, there have been few opportunities to interact with those who are involved on the national level, so it was great to find out where the organization as a whole is heading,” said Clayton W. Brooks...
...event was organized by the Harvard NAACP chapter’s President James A. Nortey and Vice President Toby R. Merrill, who are both students at the Law School...