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FILE - In this March 15, 2013 file photo, NAACP president Ben Jealous speaks at a news conference in Annapolis, Md. Just months after stepping down as head of the nation’s largest civil rights organization, former NAACP president Jealous is changing his career from an East Coast political activist to a West Coast venture capitalist, a switch he hopes will help him further his goal of growing opportunities for blacks and Latinos in the booming tech economy. The Northern California native and self-confessed computer geek will be joining entrepreneurs Mitchell Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein at their venture capital investment firm which backs information technology start-ups that are committed to making a positive social impact. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Former NAACP head joins tech venture capital firm

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous speaks at the "Let Freedom Ring" ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NAACP leader Benjamin Jealous to step down this year

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Rev. Jesse Jackson (left, at 2012 rally in Sanford, Fla.) battles on the "front lines" for causes greater than self, says Theresa Caldwell. (Associated Press)

NAACP: Stop-and-frisk tactics ‘inspire people like Zimmerman’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Abdul Kebbeh, 6, holds a sign at Westlake Park on Sunday, July 14, 2013 in downtown Seattle. Hundreds of people gathered at Westlake and marched to the United States Court House to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man that shot and killed Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)

Violence, riots don’t materialize after George Zimmerman’s verdict, but some in media cry foul

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Unemployed and black in Obama’s America

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)

NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

American Scene: Truck driver charged in deaths of 2 boys in tent

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)

Gay marriage a civil right, NAACP says in resolution

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

NAACP President Ben Jealous said the organization won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout as it launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters. (Associated Press)

Inside Politics: NAACP launches voter-registration push

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform is scheduled to join with NAACP officials and business and education leaders at National Press Club to discuss an alternative way of dealing with nonviolent felons, rather than just incarcerating them. (The Idaho Statesman via Associated Press)

NAACP, right urge alternative to prison for nonviolent felons

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Ousted Sherrod reconciles with NAACP

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams addresses a crowd March 30 in Salt Lake City. A spokesman for the National Tea Party Federation on Sunday said the organization has expelled the Tea Party Express from its ranks for refusing to oust Mr. Williams after he posted a blog that satirized the NAACP and referred to its president, Benjamin Jealous, as "Tom's nephew and NAACP head colored person."

‘Tea party’ leader ousted in racism row

By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times