Beyond Barack – Ten Men Who Run Things

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3. Ben Jealous – The NAACP needed help. The organization that literally changed the lives of Black Americans in the first seven decades of the twentieth century was thought to have been going stale. Enter: Ben Jealous. As the youngest president in history of the organization, Jealous started his work with the community as a pre-teen. He went on to Columbia College for undergrad and then Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; eventually becoming the Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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