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VS9-5-70101F Marketing & Co mmunications Report First Quarter <br />Charlotte Observer <br />Print Circulation: 166,546 <br />Online Audience: 659,016 <br />September 9, 2010 <br />NAACP convention coming to Cabarrus <br />Observer Staff Reports <br />Posted: Thursday, Sep. 09, 2010 <br />The president of North Carolina's NAACP will be in Kannapolis this afternoon to announce the <br />annual state convention will take place next month in Cabarrus County. <br />The Rev. William Barber 11 is scheduled to appear at 3 p.m. today at Bethel Baptist Church, on <br />Dale Earnhardt Boulevard. <br />The Cabarrus County Convention and visitors Bureau says the 67th annual state NAACP <br />convention will be held Oct. 6 -9 in Cabarrus County. North Carolina's NAACP chapter is the <br />second - largest in the country, with about 20,000 members and 120 branches. <br />Barber has been a leader of the group opposing recent changes in the Wake County Schools. <br />The school board has voted to adopt a neighborhood school concept, which opponents say will <br />re- segregate the schools. He also is playing a leading role in organizing the One Nation March, <br />scheduled for Oct. 2 in Washington. <br />The Charlotte Post September 10, 2010 <br />Circulation: 20,378 <br />N.C. NAACP convention in Concord <br />South's largest conference to gather Oct. 7 -9 <br />Published Friday, September 10, 2010 11:26 am <br />by Herbert L. White> <br />The N.C. NAACP will host Its state convention next month in Concord. <br />The state conference - the largest In the South with 120 branches and 30,000 <br />members - will meet Oct 7 -9 at Great Wolf Lodge. The announcement was made on <br />Sept 9 by state President the Rev. William Barber, a leading organizer In the Oct 2 <br />One Nation March In Washington. <br />Confirmed convention speakers Include labor and civil rights leader William Lucy at <br />the Freedom Fund banquet; Hillary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington <br />Bureau and Angela Dunsbon, director of the Office of Citizen and Faith Outreach for <br />the state branch. <br />The N.C. NAACP has taken on a higher profile under Barber, its president since 2005. <br />The civil rights group has led opposition to Wake County's controversial student <br />assignment plan and supported the N.C. Racial Justice Act signed Into law by Gov. <br />Bev Perdue In 2009. The law allows defendants In capital punishment cases to argue <br />through statistical data the use of racial bias In application of the death penalty. <br />On the Net: <br />N.C. NAACP <br />www.naaconc.oro <br />Attachment number 1 <br />Page 177 <br />&A <br />