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National Minority AIDS Council

The National Minority AIDS Council , a nonprofit organization located on the U Street Corridor of Washington, D.C., was founded in 1987 to “build leadership within communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.” The sole national organization addressing the AIDS epidemic in communities of color, NMAC represents over 3,000 community- and faith-based organizations nationwide. The agency advances its mission by providing minority and minority-serving faith- and community-based organizations a variety of capacity building assistance programs, online and classroom-based trainings, printed and electronic resources, grassroots organization and political advocacy. Wikipedia*

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National Minority AIDS Council has hosted 3 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1992 News Conference. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 1993 with an average of 116 views per video. Most appearances with Paul Kawata (2).

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