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In his youth, Chavis was a youth coordinator and SCLC assistant to [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], who inspired him to work in the [[civil rights movement]]. At the age of 23, Chavis rose to international prominence in 1971 as the leader of the [[Wilmington Ten]] in North Carolina, civil rights activists who were unjustly convicted of committing arson. As the oldest of the ten, Chavis received the longest sentence of 34 years in NC prisons. The Wilmington Ten convictions and sentences were appealed and overturned, and in 1980 all ten were freed by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals due to "prosecutorial misconduct." Chavis returned to graduate school and the field of civil rights, and he became a Vice President of the [[National Council of Churches]] in 1988 in New York City.
In 1993, the national board of directors of the [[NAACP]] elected Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr as the executive director and CEO of civil rights organization. Chavis later served in 1995 as the National Director of the [[Million Man March]], and the Founder and CEO of the [[National African American Leadership Summit]] (NAALS). Since 2001, Chavis has been [[CEO]] and Co-[[Chairman]] of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hsan.org/Content/main.aspx?pageid=10 |title=HSAN.org - Board of Directors |access-date=June 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918033232/http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=10 |archive-date=September 18, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=9 |title=HSAN.org - Leadership and Support |access-date=June 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922225228/http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=9 |archive-date=September 22, 2008 }}</ref> in New York City which he co-founded with hip-hop mogul [[Russell Simmons]].▼
▲Chavis later served in 1995 as the National Director of the [[Million Man March]], and the Founder and CEO of the [[National African American Leadership Summit]] (NAALS). Since 2001, Chavis has been [[CEO]] and Co-[[Chairman]] of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hsan.org/Content/main.aspx?pageid=10 |title=HSAN.org - Board of Directors |access-date=June 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918033232/http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=10 |archive-date=September 18, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=9 |title=HSAN.org - Leadership and Support |access-date=June 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922225228/http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=9 |archive-date=September 22, 2008 }}</ref> in New York City which he co-founded with hip-hop mogul [[Russell Simmons]].
On June 24, 2014, Chavis became the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, an African-American organization which focuses on supporting and advocating for publishers of the nation's more than 230 black newspapers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Miami times. |url=https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/UF00028321/03612 |access-date=August 28, 2023 |website=original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu |language=en}}</ref>
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