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Civil rights activist Julian Bond died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Reports indicate that Bond died from vascular disease. Julian Bond.   Getty photo. Bond was Chairman Emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).    “From his days as a young activist to his years as both an elder statesman and NAACP Chairman Emeritus, Julian Bond inspired a generation of civil rights leaders", wrote  current NAACP chairman  Roslyn M. Brock  in a statement Sunday.  “From my days as a youth board member of the NAACP to my present tenure as NAACP Chairman, like so many of my generation and before, I am yet inspired by the depth and breadth of Chairman Emeritus Bond’s exemplary service: activist, writer, historian, professor, public intellectual, public servant and an unrelentingly eloquent voice for the voiceless. The grateful citizen heirs of the civil and human rights legacy of Julian Bond can neither be co...

Former Kansas senator Bob Dole was honored at the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award ( civilrights.org ) dinner Wednesday night. Senator Bob Dole, awarded for his role in civil and human rights.  Photo CD Brown. Dole is also known for championing the rights of the disadvantaged and the disabled.  He spent thirty-five years in Congress beginning in 1960 and was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1971 to 1972. Dole, 92, holds the record as the nation's longest serving Republican leader.  He is also known for his role and accomplishments in health care, foreign affairs and deficit reduction. Also honored was former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder was the 82nd, and first African American attorney general serving under the first African American U.S. president Barack Obama, since 2009.  Holder came under fire for his stance on  Benghazi , the  Ferguson investigation  and as of late, the so-called  war on...

Protesters demonstrated in front of the White House yesterday with a message for President Obama to acknowledge the human rights abuses taking place in Tibet. In response to what is taking place in the region, Tibetans are setting themselves on fire in extreme protest. A Tibetan nun died after setting herself on fire. Palden Choetso is the 12th person to self-immolate this year in protest at the continued Chinese occupation of Tibet. The Free Tibet movement stands for the right of Tibetans to determine their own future. and for the fundamental human rights of Tibetans to be respected. Here is more video from yesterday's White House protest.  Protester has message for President Obama. Protests have also taken place in front of the U.S. State Department, and were present during the Chinese state visit of China's president, Hu Jintao,  earlier this year.