NAACP

Benjamin Todd Jealous

President and CEO

Benjamin Todd Jealous served as President of the Rosenberg Foundation- a private independent institution that supports advocacy efforts to make significant improvements in the lives of California’s working families and recent immigrants. He was the fourth person to hold the position since the Foundation was founded in 1935.

Mr. Jealous was Director of US Human Rights Program at Amnesty International. While there he led its efforts to pass federal legislation against prison rape, rebuild public consensus against racial profiling in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, and expose the widespread sentencing of children to life without the possibility of parole. He is the lead author of the 2004 report Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, Domestic Security, and Human Rights in the United States, the release of which received coverage by major media outlets in most states and on six continents.

Formerly, Mr. Jealous served as Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)-a federation of more than 200 black community newspapers. While at the NNPA, he rebuilt its 90-year old national news service and spearheaded the creation of a proprietary software system that enabled dozens of local papers to begin publishing online. (more…)

Alamogordo Daily News
By Karl Anderson, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 04/01/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

Holloman Middle School teacher Trude Trudell was presented the Otero County NAACP Teacher of the Year Award for 2008 at a banquet held at the Desert Sands Club at Holloman Air Force Base Saturday night.

The ceremony began with guest speaker Dr. Joyce Hill from New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, who spoke of her career as an educator and the value of teachers to society.

“My students would be shocked to know I am scared to death to talk,” she began. “They’d call me long-winded, though.” (more…)

Denise Lang has invited all our NM State Representatives to speak at our December business meeting on the depth of their support for the “Four Adopted Resolutions” (see last post.) Let’s hope they all come.

The Otero County Chapter is hosting the 2007 NAACP State Conference on October 19 and 20, 2007. Early registration forms will be mailed to Otero County members and to NM chapters for distribution.

Early registration cost will be $75 and on site registration will be $150. This cost will cover dinner on Friday, lunch and dinner on Saturday. The official site for this conference is the Elks Club on Hamilton Road and the two official conference hotel sites are the Hampton Inn (505-439-1782) and the Holiday Inn Express (505-437-7100).

These hotels are offering conference attendees a price of $80. per room until September 19, 2007. Other Hotels in the area are Comfort Inn (505-434-4200) @ $68, Qualuty Inn (505-437-7100) @$60 and Best Western (505-437-2110) @$55-$66.

Entertainment on Friday night will be a drumming group from Las Cruces, New Mexico and the guest speaker on Saturday night will be Ms. Mary Hardeman. We welcome NAACP delegates and members to our town in celebration of this event whose theme is “Into the Future, Honoring the Past”.