Philly NAACP elects new president after ouster
PHILADELPHIA – Members of the Philadelphia NAACP have elected a new president following the ouster of the chapter’s longtime leader.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Minister Rodney Muhammad of the Nation of Islam No. 12 Mosque was elected Saturday.
Muhammad succeeds J. Whyatt “Jerry” Mondesire, who was ousted by the national NAACP in April along with three board members with whom he’d been feuding. The board members questioned Mondesire’s financial management of the Philadelphia chapter.
Muhammad said the group will “work toward healing.”