Nathaniel Khaliq on 15 years at the head of St. Paul NAACP

St. Paul, Minn.

January 12, 2011 7:33 PM

Where Rondo used to be — Nathaniel Khaliq stands on the frontage road along I-94 in St. Paul, where he used to live in the old Rondo neighborhood. Khaliq's family was among the 650 families displaced during the construction of I-94 in the 1950s and 1960s.
MPR Photo/Caroline Yang

It's the first day off the job for Nathaniel Khaliq, who stepped down after 15 years as president of the St. Paul chapter of the NAACP.

He's overseen a decade and a half when the organization has made inroads particularly in how African-Americans are treated in the justice system in the city. Under Khaliq's leadership, the St. Paul chapter of the NAACP and the University of St. Thomas School of Law won a national award in 2010 for their work together to address problems with the way African-American youth were treated by law enforcement and St. Paul prosecutors.

Khaliq joined All Things Considered host Tom Crann for a look back on his tenure.

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