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L.A. NAACP Head Quits Over Sterling

Was set to give Clippers owner an award.

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Days after reports surfaced about an award granted to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling despite his racist history, the head of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned on Thursday. Leon Jenkins was also set to give Sterling a second award before the infamous recording surfaced. Jenkins was indicted on federal bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud, and racketeering when he was judge in Detroit in 1988. And while acquitted, he was disbarred by the Michigan Supreme Court in 1994 that found "overwhelming evidence" he "sold his office and his public trust."

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