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Energy Edge Announces Appointment of Dr. Benjamin Chavis
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy Edge Technologies Corporation (OTC: EEDG) announced today that Dr. Benjamin Chavis has accepted an Advisory Board and consulting position with the Company.  Over the past 40 years, Dr. Chavis has become one of the world's...  
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Wilmington 10 seek pardons from Perdue
Wilmington 10 leader Benjamin Chavis and nine others were freed when a federal appeals court overturned their convictions in 1980. Chavis later became executive director of the NAACP. He says North Carolina's politics and history 40 years after ...  
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Wilmington 10 seek pardons from outgoing NC gov
Wilmington 10 leader Benjamin Chavis and nine others were freed when a federal appeals court overturned their convictions in 1980. Chavis later became executive director of the NAACP. He says North Carolina's politics and history 40 years after ...  
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Wilmington 10 seek pardons from outgoing NC gov
Wilmington 10 leader Benjamin Chavis and nine others were freed when a federal appeals court overturned their convictions in 1980. Chavis later became executive director of the NAACP. He says North Carolina's politics and history 40 years after ...  
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Wilmington 10: Pardons sought in NC race-riot case
The witnesses later recanted their testimony. The appeals court overturned the convictions of Wilmington 10 leader Benjamin Chavis and nine others in 1980. Chavis later served in the early 1990s for a time as executive director of the NAACP. Though black ...  
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Trayvon Martin’s Cry For Life By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr
The new forensic voice analysis of the desperate sound of the pleading cry for help captured on the 911 tape recording on that tragic night of the murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida back on February 26, 2012 is just the latest piece of evidence ...  
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Obama Did Not Take East Way Out on Same-Sex Marriage
The time to stand up for what is right and just is now. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Education Online Services Corporation. He also serves as senior adviser to the Diamond Empowerment Fund and as National ...  
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Obama did not take easy way out on same-sex marriage
The time to stand up for what is right and just is now. (Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Education Online Services Corporation. He also serves as senior adviser to the Diamond Empowerment Fund and as National ...  
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Pardon the Wilmington Ten
In February 1971, the United Church of Christ assigned Benjamin Chavis Jr., a native of Oxford, N.C., to help students organize a school boycott. Amid the racial turmoil, someone firebombed Mike’s Grocery, a White-owned business located a block away from ...  
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Pardon the Wilmington Ten
In February 1971, the United Church of Christ assigned Benjamin Chavis Jr., a native of Oxford, N.C., to help students organize a school boycott. Amid the racial turmoil, someone firebombed Mike’s Grocery, a White-owned business located a block away from ...  
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Wilmington Ten’ petition for pardons
The pardons, if granted, would officially declare the innocence of the seven surviving members – Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Wayne Moore, Marvin Eugene Patrick, Connie Levinesky Tindall, James Matthew McKoy, Willie Earl Vereen, Reginald Epps – as well as ...  
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We Must Take More Responsibility for Our Empowerment
Our future is in our own hands. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Education Online Services Corporation. He also serves as senior adviser for the Diamond Empowerment Fund and National Director of Occupy the Dream ...  
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Wilmington Ten issues petition for 'Pardons of Innocence'
More than 40 years later, group members want their innocence. Reverend Benjamin Chavis, who was originally sentenced longer than the other nine, said they're not just asking for justice for themselves. "Justice for the Wilmington Ten is justice for all of ...  
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Obama Did Not Take Easy Way Out On Same-Sex Marriage
The time to stand up for what is right and just is now. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Education Online Services Corporation. He also serves as senior adviser to the Diamond Empowerment Fund and as ...  
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Panel Discussion at JCK to Address 'Diamonds for Good' in Africa
will tell his personal experience with how diamonds help develop future leaders for Africa • Dr. Benjamin Chavis, a senior strategic advisor for the D.E.F., will discuss “Development Diamonds,” a case study of diamonds used to educate, empower ...  
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What Happened to Gang Peace?
Farrakhan and included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who described it as an urban policy meeting, and then-NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Chavis, who had called for NAACP outreach to gang members. Street organizations from 28 cities participated.  
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Wilmington Ten asks Gov. Beverly Perdue for a pardon
Hall, a 17-year-old, was arrested for an unrelated assault charge.  However, he alleged that himself and a group of other teens lead by Benjamin Chavis, a young black civil rights activist, had firebombed the store and fired the shots.  
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