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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Benjamin Chavis''' (once known as '''Benjamin Chavis Muhammad''') is an [[Afrikan]] [[civil rights]] leader. Dr. Chavis was born '''Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr.''' on January 22, 1948 in [[Oxford, North Carolina]]. In his youth, Dr. Chavis was an assistant to [[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]] who inspired him to work in the [[civil rights movement]]. Dr. Chavis rose to international prominence as the leader of the Wilmington Ten. A former Vice President of the [[National Council of Churches]], Dr. Chavis became the Executive Director of the [[NAACP]], and he served as the National Director of the [[Million Man March]] as well as the Founder and CEO of the [[National African American Leadership Summit]] (NAALS). Since 2001 he has been [[CEO]] and Co-[[Chairman]] of the [[Hip-Hop Summit Action Network]],<ref>{{cite web<br />
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</ref> in New York City which he cofounded with hip-hop mogul [[Russell Simmons]]. Dr. Chavis joined with [[Ezell Brown]] in 2009 to establish Education Online Services Corporation which is headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida.<br />
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==Education==<br />
Chavis was a 1965 graduate of Mary Potter High School in Oxford, and entered [[St. Augustine's College (North Carolina)|St. Augustine College]] as a [[freshman]].<ref name=HistoryMakers><br />
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</ref> He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Chemistry]] from the [[University of North Carolina at Charlotte]] (1969), a [[Master of Divinity]] ([[Latin honors|magna cum laude]]) from [[Duke University]] (1980), and a [[Doctor of Ministry]] from [[Howard University]] (1981). He was a graduate student at [[Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York|Union Theological Seminary]].<ref name=XtianCent1993><br />
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