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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Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire from congressional Democrats, has resigned, senior Bush administration officials said Monday.
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The head of a Pentagon-funded research organization has resigned after the group's trustees concluded that his simultaneous service on the boards of two defense contractors was contrary to its conflict-of-interest policies.
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Mary Frances Berry, blunt-spoken chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, resigned Tuesday after more than two decades of criticizing the governments, both Democratic and Republican, that she served.
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a native of Birmingham, says he is resigning from his position as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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One of President Bushâs top lawyers resigned from his campaign Wednesday, a day after disclosing that he had given legal advice to a veterans group airing television
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John Phillips resigned Saturday as Tulsa&#39;s basketball coach after a sharp decline in the program&#39;s performance after he took over.
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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, caught in a row over the sacking of US attorneys, has resigned, reports say.
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Anthony C. Freeman, president and chief executive of the quasi-public National Capital Revitalization Corp., resigned after two years at the helm of the group, which is charged with redeveloping parcels throughout the District.
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The president of the James Beard Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to promote culinary excellence, has resigned amid allegations that the organization could not account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue.
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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 state attorney general announced his resignation Friday, days after acknowledging an extramarital affair with a former employee who accused him of sexual harassment and professional misconduct.
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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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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned from office, an official confirmed on Monday.
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CHICAGO - William Kennedy Smith said Monday he has resigned from the humanitarian group he founded while he fights sexual assault allegations leveled by a former employee.   "I am simply doing everything I can to protect the organization I love," Smith said in his first public appearance since Audra Soulias filed a lawsuit last week alleging he sexually assaulted her five years ago...
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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 head of the US space agency, NASA, has resigned after a tumultuous three years in office that included the loss of a space shuttle and its seven astronauts.