Holder to Address NAACP Amid U.S. Probe of Martin Case

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, resuming an investigation into the fatal shooting of a black teenager in Florida, will travel to the state today to speak to the group that’s demanding civil-rights charges in the case.

As he speaks at the NAACP’s annual convention today, the public focus for the country’s first black attorney general has shifted from the probe to a broader dialogue on race -- a topic he has tried to broach with varying degrees of success during his more than four years leading the Justice Department.