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Benjamin Hooks-Benjamin Hooks the longtime Civil rights leader and the former executive director of the NAACP passed away on April 15.

State Rep. Ulysses Jones wh told news outlets that  leader died following a long illness.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2007 and helped the NAACP create an initiative to expand employment opportunities for blacks in Major League Baseball.

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