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Article: NAACP's Kweisi Mfume Named Spokesperson For HIV/AID's Awareness Day
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- Atlanta Inquirer
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- February 2, 2002
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Atlanta Inquirer
02-02-2002
The leader of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization has
been named as a spokesperson for raising awareness about the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in the African American community. Kweisi Mfume, president and CEO
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
will endorse and help publicize February 7, 2002 as National Black HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day.
February 7, 2002 will be the second annual observance of National Black
HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a nationwide community mobilization effort to
emphasize the HIV/AIDS "State of Emergency" among African Americans. The
objectives of National Black HIV/AIDS Day are to encourage individuals to
get ...