President Obama will deliver the keynote speech at the annual NAACP convention in Philadelphia on July 14, the organization announced Wednesday.
It will be the second time Mr. Obama has addressed the NAACP’s national event during his presidency. And it comes within a month of his rousing eulogy for a black minister killed in a mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which he decried the Confederate flag as a painful reminder of the country’s racial challenges.
“President Barack Obama, having spoken eloquently of grace to a grieving nation in a moment of crisis in Charleston, will now address the social and economic challenges of our time in the hometown of American freedom — Philadelphia,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks said in a statement.
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