In Hollywood, Kwesi Mfume, president and CEO, NAACP, and Julian Bond, chairman of the board, NAACP, pose with executives of Nationwide Insurance, which served as the co-title sponsor of the NAACP Image Awards for the fifth consecutive year

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Caption: IN HOLLYWOOD, Kwesi Mfume (r.), president and CEO, NAACP, and Julian Bond (third from I.), chairman of the board, NAACP, pose with executives of Nationwide Insurance, which served as the co-title sponsor of the NAACP Image Awards for the fifth consecutive year. The insurance executives include (I. to r.) Steve Rasmussen, president and chief operating officer, Property and Casualty Insurance Operations, Nationwide Insurance; Donna James, president, Strategic Investments, Nationwide Insurance; and Lorraine Brock, vice president of diverse markets, Nationwide Insurance. IN ATLANTA (below), dignitaries and the widow of late Atlanta Mayor Maynard H. Jackson celebrate the renaming of the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The group includes (I. to r.) Jim Maddox, Atlanta city councilman; Ben DeCosta, Atlanta airport general manager; Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin; Jackson's widow, Valerie Jackson; Cathy Woolard, president of the city council; and Felicia Moon, chair of the city council's transportation committee. At right (below), Valerie Jackson kisses the portrait of her late husband, who, in 1973, became the first Black mayor of a major Southern city. He served three terms.

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