Benjamin Todd Jealous was born on January 18,1973 and is an American civil rights leader and social impact investor.
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36 Facts About Benjamin Jealous
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Benjamin Jealous served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 2008 to 2013.
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Benjamin Jealous ran as a Democrat, and won the party's nomination in the June 2018 primary, defeating Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker and seven other candidates.
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In 2013, Benjamin Jealous was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum.
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Benjamin Jealous was selected as president of People for the American Way, and its associated foundation, on June 2,2020, and assumed the position on June 15.
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Benjamin Jealous was born in 1973 in Pacific Grove, California, and grew up on the Monterey Peninsula.
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Benjamin Jealous worked as a psychotherapist and had grown up in Baltimore.
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Benjamin Jealous had participated there in the desegregation of Western High School.
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Benjamin Jealous is the author, with Caroline Haskell, of Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism.
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Benjamin Jealous's father, Fred Jealous, who is white, is descended from settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, related to businessman Joseph B Sargent, and directly in line to inherit the fortune from the Sargent and Co business.
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Benjamin Jealous founded the Breakthrough Men's Community and participated in Baltimore sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters.
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Benjamin Jealous graduated from York School in Monterey, California in 1990.
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Benjamin Jealous's father was best friends with comedian Dave Chappelle's father, William David Chappelle III; as a result, Benjamin Jealous has been friends with Dave Chappelle since childhood, and the two are god-brothers.
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Benjamin Jealous earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Columbia University.
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At Columbia University, Benjamin Jealous began working as an organizer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Benjamin Jealous organized with the local NAACP chapter to keep them fully funded and maintain their operations.
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Benjamin Jealous's reporting was credited with exposing corruption among high-ranking officials at the state prison in Parchman.
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Benjamin Jealous returned to Columbia in 1997, where he applied for and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
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Benjamin Jealous was President of the Rosenberg Foundation, a private foundation located in San Francisco, California from 2005 to 2008.
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Benjamin Jealous was elected in 2008 as president and CEO of the NAACP; at age 35, he was the youngest person to serve in that position.
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Benjamin Jealous led the NAACP to work closely with other civil rights, labor and environmental groups.
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In 2012 Benjamin Jealous formed the Democracy Initiative along with other progressive leaders, to build a national campaign around three goals: getting big money out of politics, supporting voting rights, and reforming broken Senate rules.
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Finally, in 2013 Benjamin Jealous gave the keynote address at the A10 Rally for Citizenship, a major rally for immigration reform at the US Capitol.
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Benjamin Jealous broadened the NAACP's alliances in 2011 at the National Press Club when a conservative coalition of criminal justice reform advocates endorsed an NAACP report authored by Benjamin Jealous.
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Benjamin Jealous was noted for reviving and building the resources of the NAACP.
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On May 31,2017, Benjamin Jealous announced his candidacy for governor of Maryland in the 2018 election, then held by Larry Hogan.
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Many labor and progressive groups issued early endorsements of Benjamin Jealous, including the American Postal Workers Union, Communications Workers of America, National Nurses United, the Maryland State Education Association, the Service Employees International Union, UNITE-HERE, Democracy for America, Friends of the Earth Action, the Maryland Working Families Party, Our Revolution and Progressive Maryland.
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Benjamin Jealous received endorsements from Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris, as well as longtime friend, comedian Dave Chappelle.
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Benjamin Jealous ran on a platform that included free college tuition, legalized marijuana, universal healthcare, and a $15 minimum wage for Marylanders.
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Benjamin Jealous's views were described an analyst for Circa News as democratic socialist.
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General election was held on November 6,2018, and Benjamin Jealous lost the election to the incumbent governor, Hogan by a wide margin of 11.
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In 2014 Benjamin Jealous became a senior partner at Kapor Capital, a firm that leverages the tech sector to create progressive social change.
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Benjamin Jealous joined the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow.
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Benjamin Jealous endorsed Bernie Sanders in his 2016 campaign for US president, then supported Hillary Clinton after she was nominated as candidate by the Democratic Party.
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Benjamin Jealous was married to Lia Epperson, an NAACP lawyer and law professor at American University Washington College of Law in July 2002.
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Benjamin Jealous has earned the following awards and honors for his activism:.
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