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BellSouth to Webcast Key Events From 95th Annual NAACP Convention Presidential candidate John Kerry and reigning Miss America Ericka Dunlap among the speakers to be featured ATLANTA, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- For the seventh consecutive year, BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS) will feature live Internet broadcasts of key speeches and other events from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] annual convention. This year's conference will be held in Philadelphia on July 11-15. "As the nation's oldest and largest civil-rights organization, the NAACP has been a pillar in the communities that BellSouth serves," said Valencia Adams, BellSouth's chief diversity officer. "We are honored to continue our longstanding relationship with the NAACP by distributing the organization's messages to people throughout the world." Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and the reigning Miss America 2004 Ericka Dunlap are just two of several well-known individuals who will be featured speakers at the conference. Video and audio feeds, as well as a photo gallery of speakers and events surrounding the convention, will be available by accessing either BellSouth's site, http://www.bellsouth.com/naacp or the NAACP's Web site, http://www.naacp.org/ during the convention. Archived, on-demand video access of speeches and the photo gallery will be available following the broadcasts. A complete convention schedule is available at http://www.naacp.org/action/schedulephilly.pdf For the past several years, BellSouth has consistently been ranked by the NAACP as one of the nation's top telecommunications companies on its annual economic reciprocity report card. This year alone, BellSouth has been recognized on Fortune's best companies for minorities' list. This is the sixth consecutive year that BellSouth has been included on the Fortune listing. Computerworld magazine named BellSouth #4 in its top 10 companies for diversity. Asian Enterprise magazine named BellSouth as one of the ten best companies for Asian Americans. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law presented BellSouth with the A. Leon Higginbotham Corporate Leadership Award, Diversity Inc ranked BellSouth among its noteworthy companies for minorities, and the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council honored BellSouth with three major awards for its contribution to minority businesses. About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's second largest wireless voice and data provider. Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(SM), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(SM) and The Real Yellow Pages(R). DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation CONTACT: Angela Brooks of BellSouth Corporation, +1-404-249-2365, or Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/naacp http://www.naacp.org/ http://www.naacp.org/action/schedulephilly.pdf http://www.bellsouth.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/095650.html

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