US NAACP rights group selects Cornell Williams Brooks as new national president and CEO
WASHINGTON – The NAACP rights group has selected Cornell Williams Brooks to become its new national president and CEO.
Brooks, 53, will become its 18th national president. He’s now the president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Brooks is a minister and former lawyer for the Federal Communication Commission and the Justice Department. He also ran for Congress as a Democrat in Virginia in 1998.
NAACP chair Roslyn Brock told The Associated Press of the selection Saturday. Brooks will be formally presented at the group’s national convention in Las Vegas in July.
The NAACP, which was founded in 1909, says it’s the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S.
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