Verizon Executive Tapped to Lead NAACP

NPR | By Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Published June 26, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

The NAACP chooses businessman Bruce Gordon, a former Verizon executive, to replace Kweisi Mfume as president of the NAACP.

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