| | |  Editorials | Opinions | September 2009 
The Importance of Being Centrist?
 The Real News Network
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September 29, 2009
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Paul Jay speaks with Benjamin Jealous at the Tides Foundations' Momentum conference in San Francisco about the fight of the progressive community.
Bio: Benjamin Jealous is the 17th President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP, and the youngest person to hold the position in the organization’s nearly 100-year history. Benjamin Jealous has a deep commitment to social justice, public service and human rights activism. Jealous has served as President of the Rosenberg Foundation. He was also Director of the U.S. Human Rights Program at Amnesty International where he led efforts to pass federal legislation against prison rape, rebuild public consensus against racial profiling in the wake of 9/11, and expose the widespread sentencing of children to life imprisonment without parole. As the Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 black community newspapers. Jealous doubled the number of black newspapers publishing online. |
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