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Horace Julian Bond, born on January 14 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee, spent all of his adult life fighting injustice, through advocacy, the legislature and activism. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the NAACP and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center....

“He started when he was about 17 and he went to 75”, Young said.

He is survived by his second wife, Pamela Sue Horowitz, a retired lawyer, and five children.

Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

“He was a writer as well as a young philosopher”, said Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a journalist who struck up a friendship with Bond in the early 1960s, when she was one of the first two black students to attend the University of Georgia.

“He was an integral part of helping young people”, said Elder Cal Murrell from the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Georgia.

At a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) conference earlier this week, Obama expressed his concern about the growing population in United States prisons.

“Mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do something about it”, Obama said. The White House has posted a video of conversation between the president and David Simon, writer of the HBO television show, “The Wire”, in which Obama...

“These men and women were not hardened criminals”, said Obama, who is expected to announce more details about changes to the criminal justice system during a speech to the NAACP in Philadelphia on Tuesday. “The President’s actions today are welcome, but we...

And when you get to the point where you have to label yourself as “other“.