Saint Paul NAACP in the News

NAACP's new head: We need diversity

St. Paul chapter should recruit others besides blacks, he says
 
By Frederick Melo, January 16, 2011
 
Jeffry Martin wants to grow the ranks of the St. Paul chapter of the NAACP.
 
Martin, a criminal defense attorney, former probation officer and ordained minister who replaced Nathaniel Khaliq as chapter president in late December, is reaching back to the origins of the national organization in 1909. Then, writer-orator W.E.B. DuBois and journalist Ida B. Wells met with some 60 concerned activists following a race riot in Springfield, Ill. Seven of those at the gathering were black. The rest were white, many of them the descendants of abolitionists...

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Through good times and bad, Nathaniel Khaliq loyal to his St. Paul neighborhood

By Doug Grow, Sept 28, 2010

So many battles won, so many lost and so many undefined well, sometimes battles don't end the way they begin.

Nathaniel A. Khaliq, still known by most of his friends in St. Paul's neighborhoods as Nick Davis, laughed about one of those battles that he and his dear friend and fellow civil rights warrior, the late Katie McWatt, fought a few years back...

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