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NAACP to challenge voter ID laws nationwide

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

3:17 PM on 11/10/2011

OPINION - Our nation is in the midst of a 100-year flood of extremist attacks on voting rights. The goal: to block access to the polls for people of color, the elderly, and students...
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Misplaced priorities create a prison boom, education bust

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

11:06 AM on 04/07/2011

OPINION - Over the years, as states escalated spending on prisons, funding for education suffered...
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Katrina's lessons still not learned 5 years later

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

5:23 PM on 08/28/2010

OPINION - Without a shift in how energy policies are made and by whom, our disastrous trajectory toward peril will be unabated...
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Putting America back to work is NAACP's first priority

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

8:08 AM on 07/12/2010

OPINION - Our nation's children -- from the Gulf Coast to the Iron City -- deserve for all of us to fight for a better tomorrow like their very lives depend on it...
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NAACP: What we want to see from BP

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

12:30 PM on 07/09/2010

OPINION - All communities, including communities of color along the Gulf Coast must be fully restored and receive needed support and assistance from BP...
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NAACP: Why we partnered with Wells Fargo

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

6:25 PM on 04/30/2010

OPINION - We understand, Mr. Boyce. We know you're an ally and a friend of the NAACP. We know some people just don't believe anyone will hold their supporters accountable, even though we have done so for a century...
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NAACP: Five things you can do to help pass health care reform

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

7:04 AM on 11/10/2009

OPINION - There are five key things that must be done and that we can do to ensure that the Senate passes a real health care reform bill with a strong public option...
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Rockford killing highlights national dilemma with police conduct

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

10:02 AM on 10/01/2009

OPINION - The United States remains the only country in the Western world without national standards for the use of police force, or with ongoing federal training for officers...
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Personal responsibility alone won't fix structural inequalities

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

7:11 AM on 09/22/2009

OPINION - Families often face enormous structural barriers to success, barriers that can impede even the most conscientious, tenacious and, yes, responsible parents...
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Demand justice for Troy Davis

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

8:18 AM on 06/24/2009

In Georgia, a man named Troy Davis sits on Death Row despite unassailable evidence pointing to his innocence. It is the most compelling case of innocence in decades. Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail despite the fact that no physical evidence exists...
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