NAACP RETAINS TAX EXEMPT STATUS

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond (L) and President and CEO Bruce S. Gordon adjust a loose microphone during a news conference to discuss the announcement by the IRS that the NAACP will keep it's tax exempt status in Washington on August 31, 2006. The IRS was investigating a complaint by some Republicans that remarks by Bond constituted interfering with an election. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)