President of major civil rights group resigns
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The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bruce Gordon, is stepping down after 19 months at the nation's largest civil rights organization, the NAACP said on Sunday.
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Steve Patterson has resigned as  president and general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers,  the club said on Thursday.
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Thailand's deposed premier resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from London on Tuesday, after more than 200 colleagues quit the organization in the wake of a military coup.
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The paperÂs first African-American managing editor resigned after a reporter was exposed as a fabricator.
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The secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, has resigned less than a month after taking the position.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell and three other cabinet members have resigned, escalating the shakeup of President George W. Bush&#39;s second-term team.
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Accusations of corruption levied against both the president and his family have led a group of activists to protest for his resignation.
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The leader of the Bosnian Serb government, Dragan Mikerevic, resigned Friday to protest what he described as unconstitutional interference in his government&#39;s affairs by the country&#39;s Western administrator.
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More lawyers may follow the lead of a top QC who has resigned following the Law Lordsâ damning verdict on the Governmentâs anti-terror laws, a civil rights group claimed today.
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Val Ackerman resigned as president of the WNBA, a position she has held since the league started in 1996.
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Michael K. Powell is ending what's often been a controversial tenure just one day after President Bush's inauguration.
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Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, broadening an exodus that has emptied more than half of President Bush&#39;s cabinet before he takes the oath of office for a second term.
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The leader of the main opposition party in South Africa, Tony Leon, is to step down after 13 years.
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The head of the Justice Department's embattled Civil Rights Division is to resign at the end of August, officials said yesterday, making him the latest in a series of senior political appointees to leave the agency amid continued controversy over Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
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NAACP President Kweisi Mfume is stepping down after leading the US civil rights organization for nine years, media reports said Tuesday.
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Tommy G. Thompson resigned today as secretary of health and human services, becoming the eighth member of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet to quit as Mr.
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Leaders of a divided federal  civil-rights watchdog agency accused President Bush of  deepening racial divisions, in a parting shot after years of  sparring with his administration.