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Fresno’s African American Community Newspaper A A DVOCATE DVOCATE 50 cents The California PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAID FRESNO, CA PERMIT NO.35 Volume 41 No. 48 – November 28, 2008 CALIFORNIA ADVOCATE “Your Local News Source” Call 268-0941 To Subscribe! BY HOWARD WITT Barely three weeks since America elected its first black president, noose hangings, racist graffiti and death threats have struck dozens of towns across the country. More than 200 such incidents – including cross burnings, assassi- nation betting pools and effigies of Presi- dent-elect Barack Oba- ma – have been report- ed, according to law en- forcement authorities and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. Racist websites have been boasting that their servers have been crashing because of an exponential increase in traffic. And America’s most potent symbol of racial hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, is reasserting it- self in a spate of recent violence, after decades of disorganization and obscurity. Nearly two weeks ago, the leader of a cell based in Bogalusa, La. – a backwoods town once known as the Klan capital – was charged Continued on Page 4 U White Extremists Lash Out Over Obama’s Election More than 200 hate-related incidents reported since election. BY RASHA MADKOUR MIAMI (AP) – A South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing on drugs in front of a live online audi- ence as some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it. Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pem- broke Pines, died Wednesday at his home from a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and depres- sion, said Wendy Crane, an investi- gator with the Broward County medical examiner’s office. Authorities say the Broward Community College student is not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling. It’s unclear how many people were watching through the Web site bodybuilding.com. Someone final- ly notified a site moderator, who pinpointed Biggs’ location and called police, but they arrived too late to save him, Crane said. Biggs, who used the screen name “CandyJunkie” on the bodybuild- ing Web site, started blogging about plans to kill himself 12 hours Continued on Page 4 U BY DAVID JACKSON AND SUSAN P AGE USA TODAY CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Oba- ma, calling for “sound judgment and fresh thinking” to address the nation’s economic crisis, an- nounced Monday his selection of Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Re- serve, as Treasury secretary, and Larry Summers, a former Trea- BY RICK JERVIS, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS – Children of displaced families from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have seri- ous health and mental ail- ments, a new study says. The report, released Mon- day by the New York-based Children’s Health Fund, re- viewed medical records of 261 children who lived in a federally funded Baton Rouge trailer park until ear- ly summer. It is the first in- depth review of children’s medical and mental health after the catastrophic storms in 2005 that displaced thou- sands of families throughout the Gulf Coast. After Katrina, the Chil- dren’s Health Fund, a non- profit group that provides health care to children, dis- patched mobile clinics across the Gulf Coast, in- cluding one outside Renais- sance Village in Baton Rouge, then the largest Fed- eral Emergency Manage- ment Agency trailer park in the region. The Children’s Health Fund used medical data gathered from that clin- ic to conduct the survey, says Irwin Redlener, presi- dent of the group and the study’s author. One of the most alarming findings: 41% of children younger than 4 were diag- nosed with iron-deficiency anemia, more than double the rate of children living in New York City homeless shelters, Redlener says. “This is a very big prob- lem that has not been fo- cused on at all in the Gulf Coast,” Redlener says. Other findings: • 55% of elementary- school-aged children had a behavior or learning prob- lem. • 42% of children were di- agnosed with allergic rhini- tis, known as hay fever, and/or upper respiratory in- fection. • 24% had a cluster of up- per respiratory, allergic and skin ailments. Heidi Sinclair, a Baton Rouge pediatrician who helped run the Children’s Health Fund clinic there, says she saw disturbingly high rates of respiratory problems and skin rashes Continued on Page 6 U Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s controver- sial former pastor, says watching the TV returns on election night was bitter- sweet, the Associated Press reports. “It was like a mixed bag of being proud of him (Obama) and being blessed to have lived to see some- thing my parents would never have believed, was going to happen while at the same time having been put up as the whipping boy by the media to be the weapon of mass destruc- tion to destroy his candida- cy,” he tells Sirius XM ra- dio host Mark Thompson in Continued on Page 4 U Obama Chooses Economic Team sury secretary, as head of the National Economic Council. Obama also named Christina Romer, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, to chair his Coun- cil of Economic Advisers, and Melody Barnes, of the Center for American Progress, as di- rector the Domestic Policy Council. In making the announce- ment, Obama said the country Continued on Page 4 U Black Teen Commits Suicide on Internet in Front of Webcam Children from FEMA Trailer Park Battle Health Problems Rev. Wright Says Election Night was Bittersweet BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY With a new album and two movies on the horizon, it appears the Season of Bey- once has begun. Then again, one could argue that it’s al- ways Beyonce season. Two years ago, it was all about the re- lease of her second CD, “B’Day” and her starring role in the movie “Dreamgirls.” Last year, her “Irreplaceable” was up for a top Grammy and she was on a world tour. And this year, besides a high-profile Grammy performance with Tina Turner, her hush-hush marriage to Jay-Z and ap- pearances on hit remixes with Justin Tim- berlake and Usher generated headlines. Though it may have been hard to tell, she actually did take a yearlong hiatus Continued on Page 6 U BEYONCE a bit more ‘FIERCE ’ The Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development FWCED held its fourth annual l Risk Takers, Dream Makers Awards Lun- cheon November 18 at the Radisson Hotel. Keith Kelley, Execu- tive Director of FWCED, stated that the event was the largest and the most successful to date. Over 500 guests were in attendance to honor four Fresno residents listed below: FWCED Holds Fourth Annual Risk Takers, Dream Makers Luncheon 2008 Award Recipients • LA’VERA ETHRIDGE-WILLIAMS, a long-time West Fresno businesswoman who received the 2008 South West Fresno Busi- ness Award. • STEPHEN D. GEIL received the 2008 Fresno County Commu- nity Service Award. Geil is president/CEO of the Economic De- velopment Corp., serving Fresno County; and, he is Chairman of the Board of Geil Enterprises, Inc. • REV. FLOYD D. HARRIS JR. Community Activist, received the 2008 Southwest Fresno Community Leader Award, and • JESSE D. ANDREWS, a 17-year-old Edison High School Se- nior, received the 2008 President’s Award. La’Vera Ethridge- Williams Stephen D. Geil Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. Jesse D. Andrews
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BY HOWARD WITT
Barely three weekssince America electedits first black president,noose hangings, racistgraffiti and deaththreats have struckdozens of towns acrossthe country.
More than 200 such
incidents – includingcross burnings, assassi-nation betting poolsand effigies of Presi-dent-elect Barack Oba-ma – have been report-ed, according to law en-forcement authoritiesand the SouthernPoverty Law Center,which monitors hate
groups.Racist websites have
been boasting that theirservers have beencrashing because of anexponential increase intraffic.
And America’s mostpotent symbol of racialhatred, the Ku KluxKlan, is reasserting it-
self in a spate of recentviolence, after decadesof disorganization andobscurity.
Nearly two weeksago, the leader of a cellbased in Bogalusa, La.– a backwoods townonce known as the Klancapital – was chargedContinued on Page 4 UU
White Extremists Lash OutOver Obama’s ElectionMore than 200 hate-related incidents reported since election.
BY RASHA MADKOUR
MIAMI (AP) –A South Florida college student
killed himself by overdosing ondrugs in front of a live online audi-ence as some computer users eggedhim on, some debated his method,and others tried to talk him out of it.
Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pem-broke Pines, died Wednesday at hishome from a toxic combination ofopiates and benzodiazepine, a drugused to treat insomnia and depres-sion, said Wendy Crane, an investi-gator with the Broward Countymedical examiner’s office.
Authorities say the BrowardCommunity College student is notthe first person to commit suicidewith a webcam rolling.
It’s unclear how many peoplewere watching through the Web sitebodybuilding.com. Someone final-ly notified a site moderator, whopinpointed Biggs’ location andcalled police, but they arrived toolate to save him, Crane said.
Biggs, who used the screen name“CandyJunkie” on the bodybuild-ing Web site, started bloggingabout plans to kill himself 12 hours
Continued on Page 4 UU
BY DAVID JACKSONAND SUSAN PAGEUSA TODAY
CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Oba-
ma, calling for “sound judgmentand fresh thinking” to addressthe nation’s economic crisis, an-nounced Monday his selectionof Timothy Geithner, presidentof the New York Federal Re-serve, as Treasury secretary, andLarry Summers, a former Trea-
BY RICK JERVIS, USA TODAY
NEW ORLEANS –Children of displaced
families from HurricanesKatrina and Rita have seri-ous health and mental ail-ments, a new study says.
The report, released Mon-day by the New York-basedChildren’s Health Fund, re-viewed medical records of261 children who lived in afederally funded BatonRouge trailer park until ear-ly summer. It is the first in-depth review of children’smedical and mental healthafter the catastrophic stormsin 2005 that displaced thou-sands of families throughoutthe Gulf Coast.
After Katrina, the Chil-dren’s Health Fund, a non-profit group that provideshealth care to children, dis-patched mobile clinicsacross the Gulf Coast, in-cluding one outside Renais-sance Village in BatonRouge, then the largest Fed-eral Emergency Manage-ment Agency trailer park inthe region. The Children’sHealth Fund used medicaldata gathered from that clin-
ic to conduct the survey,says Irwin Redlener, presi-dent of the group and thestudy’s author.
One of the most alarmingfindings: 41% of childrenyounger than 4 were diag-nosed with iron-deficiencyanemia, more than doublethe rate of children living inNew York City homelessshelters, Redlener says.
“This is a very big prob-lem that has not been fo-cused on at all in the GulfCoast,” Redlener says.
Other findings:• 55% of elementary-
school-aged children had abehavior or learning prob-lem.
• 42% of children were di-agnosed with allergic rhini-tis, known as hay fever,and/or upper respiratory in-fection.
• 24% had a cluster of up-per respiratory, allergic andskin ailments.
Heidi Sinclair, a BatonRouge pediatrician whohelped run the Children’sHealth Fund clinic there,says she saw disturbinglyhigh rates of respiratoryproblems and skin rashes
Continued on Page 6 UU
Rev. Jeremiah Wright,Barack Obama’s controver-sial former pastor, sayswatching the TV returns onelection night was bitter-sweet, the Associated Pressreports.
“It was like a mixed bagof being proud of him(Obama) and being blessedto have lived to see some-
thing my parents wouldnever have believed, wasgoing to happen while atthe same time having beenput up as the whipping boyby the media to be theweapon of mass destruc-tion to destroy his candida-cy,” he tells Sirius XM ra-dio host Mark Thompson in
Continued on Page 4 UU
Obama Chooses
Economic Team
sury secretary, as head of theNational Economic Council.
Obama also named ChristinaRomer, an economics professorat the University of Californiaat Berkeley, to chair his Coun-cil of Economic Advisers, and
Melody Barnes, of the Centerfor American Progress, as di-rector the Domestic PolicyCouncil.
In making the announce-ment, Obama said the country
Continued on Page 4 UU
Black TeenCommits Suicide on Internet in Front of Webcam
Children from FEMATrailer Park BattleHealth Problems
Rev. Wright Says ElectionNight was Bittersweet
BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
With a new album and two movies onthe horizon, it appears the Season of Bey-once has begun.
Then again, one could argue that it’s al-ways Beyonce season.
Two years ago, it was all about the re-lease of her second CD, “B’Day” and herstarring role in the movie “Dreamgirls.”Last year, her “Irreplaceable” was up for atop Grammy and she was on a world tour.And this year, besides a high-profileGrammy performance with Tina Turner,her hush-hush marriage to Jay-Z and ap-pearances on hit remixes with Justin Tim-berlake and Usher generated headlines.
Though it may have been hard to tell,she actually did take a yearlong hiatus
Continued on Page 6 UU
BEYONCE a bit more‘FIERCE’
The Fresno WestCoalition for EconomicDevelopment FWCEDheld its fourth annual lRisk Takers, DreamMakers Awards Lun-cheon November 18 atthe Radisson Hotel.
Keith Kelley, Execu-
tive Director ofFWCED, stated thatthe event was thelargest and the mostsuccessful to date.Over 500 guests werein attendance to honorfour Fresno residentslisted below:
FWCED Holds Fourth Annual
Risk Takers,Dream MakersLuncheon
2008 Award Recipients
• LA’VERA ETHRIDGE-WILLIAMS, a long-time West Fresnobusinesswoman who received the 2008 South West Fresno Busi-ness Award.
• STEPHEN D. GEIL received the 2008 Fresno County Commu-nity Service Award. Geil is president/CEO of the Economic De-velopment Corp., serving Fresno County; and, he is Chairman ofthe Board of Geil Enterprises, Inc.
• REV. FLOYD D. HARRIS JR. Community Activist, receivedthe 2008 Southwest Fresno Community Leader Award, and
• JESSE D. ANDREWS, a 17-year-old Edison High School Se-nior, received the 2008 President’s Award.
La’Vera Ethridge-Williams
Stephen D. GeilRev. Floyd D. Harris Jr.
Jesse D. Andrews
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r. Martin Luther King Jr. literally gave his life so thatAfrican Americans would some day have the opportunityto achieve their goals based on their character rather thanthe color of their skin.
Senator Barak Obama’s bid for the Democratic nomineefor president of the United States of America representedwhat Dr. King articulated some 40 years ago.
Obama’s success in winning the Iowa caucuses, running a close sec-ond in the New Hampshire primary, his high polling numbers in SouthCarolina and Nevada, his endorsement by Senator John Kerry and oth-er high ranking white elected officials, is good reason for AfricansAmericans to celebrate what could be the end of the racial divide thathas prevented white people from voting in great numbers for a viableBlack candidate for the highest political office in the country.
Obama’s ability to inspire a cross section of Americans – especiallyyoung people – to be involved in bringing about much-needed changein the way this country is run, is a reminder of how Dr. King was ableto inspire people from all walks of life, to rise up against racial dis-crimination and hatred.
His positive message of “Yes We Can!” harkens back to Dr. King’smessage of hope in a time when there seemed to be no hope to end theplight of African Americans who, for centuries, had endured the crueltreatment heaped upon them by unrelenting oppressors who viewedDr. King as a threat to the American way of life.
With the presence of his wife and two lovely daughters by his sideon the campaign trail, Obama presents a positive image of the Blackfamly which is an inspiration to all people who espouse “family val-ues” and “hard work” as the DNA for success in this country.
Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University LawSchool where he was elected the first black president of the HarvardReview. His work as a Civil Rights lawyer and his community organiz-ing skills propelled him to the Illinois State Senate and to the U. S.Senate where he presently serves as the only Black United States Sen-ator.
To be sure, Barak Obama has benefitted greatly from the sacrificesmade by Dr. King and others in the Civil Rights Movement. In fact,Obama represents what the movement was all about, and his successshould be applauded by those who truly believed that, if given thechance, the son of a Black man could become President of the UnitedStates of America.
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Dr. King would be gratified to see that his hard work and sacrificewas not in vain. And, that the election of Barak Obama to lead thiscountry in the 21st century is the realization that we have finallyOVERCOME.
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WASHINGTON – Barack Obama has won 11 consec-utive primaries and caucuses since Super Tuesday inhis bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination forPresident.
Obama’s blowout victories in Wisconsin andHawaii last Tuesday, put him out front in number ofdelegates, besting opponent Hillary Clinton by 150elected delegates, leading Clinton into the March 4thprimaries in Texas, Ohio and Vermont.
Obama has a total of 1,319 elected delegates; Clin-ton has 1,250.
Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rod-ham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night,gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidentialrace for the ages.
It was Obama’s eleventh straight victory over thepast three weeks and left the former first lady in des-perate need of a comeback in a race she long com-manded as front-runner.
“The change we seek is still months and milesaway,” Obama told a boisterous crowd in Houston ina speech in which he also pledged to end the war inIraq in his first year in office.
“I opposed this war in 2002. I will bring this war toan end in 2009. It is time to bring our troops home,”he declared.
Sen. John McCain, the Republican front-runner,won a pair of primaries, in Wisconsin and Washington,to continue his march toward certain nomination.
In a race growing increasingly negative, Obama cutdeeply into Clinton’s political bedrock in Wisconsin,splitting the support of white women almost evenlywith her. According to polling place interviews, he al-
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Obama: 11 Consecutive Wins‘YES WE CAN!’
RIGHT: Presidential candidate Barack Obama has won 11 con-secutive primaries and caucuses since Super Tuesday.
BY DAVID ESPO
WASHINGTON (AP) – In a freshsign of trouble for Hillary Rod-ham Clinton, one of the formerfirst lady’s congressional blacksupporters intends to vote forBarack Obama at the DemocraticNational Convention, and a sec-ond, more prominent lawmaker isopenly discussing a possibleswitch.
Rep. David Scott’s defectionand Rep. John Lewis’ remarkshighlight one of the challengesconfronting Clinton in a campaignthat pits a black man against awoman for a nomination that his-torically has been the exclusiveproperty of white men.
“You’ve got to represent thewishes of your constituency,”Scott said in an interview Wednes-day in the Capitol. “My proper po-sition would be to vote the wishesof my constituents.” The third-term lawmaker represents a dis-trict that gave more than 80 per-cent of its vote to Obama in theFeb. 5 Georgia primary.
Lewis, whose Atlanta-area dis-trict voted 3-to-1 for Obama, saidhe is not ready to abandon hisbacking for the former first lady.But several associates said the na-tionally known civil rights figurehas become increasingly torn
about his early endorsement ofClinton. They spoke on conditionof anonymity, citing private con-versations.
In an interview, Lewis likenedObama to Robert F. Kennedy inhis ability to generate campaignexcitement, and left open the pos-sibility he might swing behind theIllinois senator. “It could (hap-pen). There’s no question about it.It could happen with a lot of peo-
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Black Lawmakers RethinkSupport for Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
BY CHARLES BABINGTON
WASHINGTON (AP) –Barack Obama is attractingjaw-dropping crowds at stopafter stop. Democratic rivalHillary Rodham Clintonwould be thrilled with herown big turnouts except thathis are so much bigger.
Political insiders are un-sure what to make of it all:No one has seen these kindsof crowds so long beforeElection Day.
Do to-the-rafters audi-ences in the primaries meanObama will win the Demo-cratic nomination? Or dothey simply represent highlymotivated fans who eventu-ally could yield to a quieterbut larger number of votersfor Clinton? Or for the Re-publican nominee inNovember?
While some major Repub-lican candidates were strug-gling to draw 800 peoplejust before the Feb. 5 pri-
maries, Obama spoke before54,000 on a three-stop Sat-urday. That was approach-ing the population of Wilm-ington, Delaware, where hedrew 20,000 the next day,which also was the footballchampionship Super BowlSunday.
Within 24 hours lastweekend, Clinton drew45,000 people in three citiesin Virginia and Maryland.
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Obama Packs Arenas Months Before ElectionWill The Large Crowds Mean Votes in November?
OHIO (AP) – SpikeLee told a crowd atthe University ofDayton to “do theright thing” in thisyear’s presidentialelection.
“We are living insome very excitingtimes,” Lee saidMonday. “And themonths leading up tothe election inNovember will deter-mine which way thiscountry is going togo; forward or back-ward. It’s up to you todo the right thing.”
He said he sup-ports Barack Obamafor the Democraticnomination.
Dressed in asweater, jeans andball cap, Lee spokeof growing up inNew York City, beinga fairly average stu-dent at MorehouseCollege in Atlanta,and becoming a di-rector.
“At first, I didn’tknow that people ac-tually made movies,”
Lee said of his child-hood. “We would goto the movies on theweekend and stay un-til our parentsdragged us out.
“I didn’t decide tobecome a filmmakeruntil I went to col-lege. But I did realizethat the richness ofthe African-Ameri-can experience that Isaw on the corner ev-ery day was not onthe screen.”
Last week, Leewas in Columbus toreceive the $50,000Wexner Prize thatrecognizes innova-tion, and integrityamong artists.
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‘Great Debaters’Tops NAACPImage Awards
Denzel Washington in “The Great Debaters.”
BY RYAN PEARSON
LOS ANGELES – (AP)Denzel Washington’s “TheGreat Debaters” and TylerPerry’s TBS series “Houseof Payne” took top honorsat Thursday night’sNAACP Image Awards.
“The Great Debaters”was named top film, whileacting prizes went to itsstars Washington, JurneeSmollett and teenagerDenzel Whitaker. Wash-ington also directed the
film, based on the real-lifevictories of a black debat-ing team in the 1930s.
“I’ll be at that othershow next week, but myheart is here,” said Wash-ington, who is a presenterat the Feb. 24 AcademyAwards. “I’m just so hap-py to see these young peo-ple get recognized.”
“Tyler Perry’s House ofPayne” won for comedyseries, and its stars LaVanDavis and Lance Gross
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Barack Obama effectivelyclinched the Democraticpresidential nominationTuesday after a gruelingmarathon, based on an Asso-ciated Press tally of conven-tion delegates, becoming thefirst black candidate ever to
lead his party into a fallcampaign for the WhiteHouse.
Campaigning on an insis-tent call for change, Obamaoutlasted former first ladyHillary Rodham Clinton in ahistoric race that sparkedrecord turnout in primary af-ter primary, yet exposed
deep racial and gender divi-sions within the party.
The tally was based onpublic declarations fromdelegates as well as fromanother 15 who have con-firmed their intentions to theAP. It also included 11 dele-gates Obama was guaran-
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LONDON (AP) — Excitement about Barack
Obama emerged as a globalphenomenon Wednesday ascommentators and citizensaround the world welcomedthe news that he had sealedthe Democratic presidentialnomination.
The excitement appearedless over Obama’s proposedpolicies than a sense that thecandidacy of an AfricanAmerican with relatives inAfrica and childhood
Tonight, after fifty-four hard-fought con-tests, our primary season has finally cometo an end.
Sixteen months have passed since wefirst stood together on the steps of the OldState Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Thou-sands of miles have been traveled. Millionsof voices have been heard. And because ofwhat you said – because you decided thatchange must come to Washington; because
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Trelani K. Johnson at-tends Harvest (Hawks) El-ementary School where hehas received Awards in-cluding the “Perfect Atten-dance Award” for theschool year.
Favorite subject: En-glish, because “I lovewriting, and expressingmyself on paper.”
Future Goals: AttendCal-Berkley University orFresno State University,and earn a degree in Com-puter Science.
Favorite Sport: football;favorite players: DarrenMacFaddon, Tim Brown,and Jamarcus Russell. Fa-vorite Basketball Player:Kobe Bryant.
Hobbies: Model carsand skateboarding.
Chantale Lavone John-son, currently a Lecturerand Research Technicianat California State Uni-versity, Fresno, receivedher degree of Master ofScience in Biology withhonors, on May 16, 2008at the California StateUniversity, Fresno cere-mony. She previously re-ceived her Bachelor ofScience degree at XavierUniversity in Louisiana.
Devin Troy Johnsonhas been very active inBuchanan High Schoolduring his four years of at-tendance. He was presi-dent of the African Ameri-can Student Union, (AA-SU) and wrote severalscripts for their Black His-tory Month performances.He performed in the the-ater production of Mid-summer Nights Dream byShakespeare and also par-ticipated in Latin Dancecompetitions, where hewas awarded the most out-standing performance.Devin has danced sang,performed monologuesand acted all throughouthigh school. In addition, hewas a peer counselor, at-tended conferences andperformed community ser-vice. During his junior andsenior years, Devin hassuccessfully maintained apart time job. Devin willattend Willow Internation-al Community College,then transfer to MorehouseCollege in Atlanta, wherehe plans to receive degreesin Computer Science andPerforming Arts.
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Brittany Edwards hasreceived her Bachelor ofScience Degree in Biolo-gy from Spelman Collegein Atlanta, GA. She trans-ferred to Spelman afterleaving Xavier Universi-ty in New Orleans duringHurricane Katrina. Brit-tany was selected for a2008-2009 Rotary Inter-national AmbassadorialScholarship where shewill travel to Guadala-jara, Jalisco Mexico andserve the community withlocal Rotary Clubs andstudy public health at theUniversity in Guadala-jara. Brittany plans toearn her MPH and MDdegrees and become anOB/GYN. Brittany is aproud graduate of EdisonHigh School where sheserved as 2003-2004 Stu-dent Body President. Herparents are Terri andJerone Edwards of Fres-no, CA.
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WASHINGTON (AP) –Secretary of State Con-
doleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black member ofthe Bush administration,congratulated Barack Oba-ma Wednesday on his histo-ry-making achievement insecuring the Democraticpresidential nomination.
Obama on Tuesday gath-ered enough delegates toseize the nomination, be-coming the first black candi-date ever to lead his partytoward the White House. Hebested Sen. Hillary RodhamClinton, capping a primaryfight that was originally ex-
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COLUMBIA SC –In answer to host Mark
Quinn’s question of what itfelt like for him to watch pre-sumptive Democratic Presi-dential Candidate BarackObama take the stage to de-liver his victory speech, SCCongressman James
Clyburn, long associatedwith the Civil Rights move-ment, admitted he so fearedbeing overcome by emotionin public, he left the eventand went home to savor themoment in private.
The entire interview can Continued on Page 8 U
Under Pressure,Clinton Finally Steps AsideBY JILL LAWRENCE,USA TODAY
WASHINGTON –In the end, it took less than
24 hours for Hillary RodhamClinton to adapt to her par-ty’s new political order.
The New York senatorwill end her quest for theDemocratic presidentialnomination late this week,according to a senior cam-paign aide and a top
fundraiser who said theycould not talk on the recordbecause they were not au-thorized to comment on theplan.
Clinton’s campaign issueda less-than-definitive state-ment saying she would hostan event here Saturday “tothank her supporters and ex-press her support for Sen.Obama and party unity.” The
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Rice Congratulates Obama on Nomination
Congressman ClyburnGets Emotional as Obama Claims Victory
friends in Asia marked a his-toric moment.
Michael Cox, a professorof international relations atthe London School of Eco-nomics, said Obama’s win“has sent out a lot of posi-tive signals around theworld.”
“He has a very appealing
persona – elegant, fluent,strings lots of sentences to-gether into paragraphs,”Cox said. “But in terms of(his) actual policies towardsthe Middle East, Iraq, Iran,China, Europe – actually,we don’t know.”
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BY RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.
BAGHDAD —Senator Barack Obama
arrived in Baghdad on Mon-day, meeting with PrimeMinister Nuri Kamal al-Ma-liki and other senior Iraqipoliticians, as an Iraqispokesman said that thegovernment was hopefulthat foreign combat troopswould withdraw in 2010.
Mr. Obama, on the latestleg of his first overseas tour
as presumptive Democraticpresidential nominee, ar-rived in the Iraqi capital inthe early afternoon with anAmerican delegation afterfirst stopping in the southernIraqi city of Basra.
Mr. Obama met with Mr.Maliki; the United Statesambassador to Iraq, Ryan C.Crocker; the Iraqi national
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BY KATHY KIELY,USA TODAY
ISRAEL —Barack Obama’s visit to
Israel Wednesday was re-plete with symbolism thatgave him a chance to talktough about Iran’s nuclearprogram, reaffirm Israel’sright to defend itself and tosuggest that the election ofmoderate Palestinian leadershas opened a window forachieving a Mideast peacedeal.
Obama’s itinerary includ-ed stops at Israel’s YadVashem Holocaust memori-
al, a visit to this Israeli townregularly shelled by Pales-tinian militants from Gazaand a trip across a check-point to meet with Palestini-an leaders on the WestBank.
The presumptive Demo-cratic presidential nomineeheld a series of meetingswith Israeli leaders, includ-ing President Shimon Peres,Defense Minister EhudBarak, the leader of the La-bor party, Benjamin Ne-tanyahu, former prime min-ister and leader of the Likudparty. He also planned ameeting later Wednesday
with Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Olmert.
The Illinois senator drewan unusually warm welcomefrom Peres, who said hisgreatest wish is for a “greatpresident of the UnitedStates. That is the greatestpromise for us and the restof the world.”
Obama’s hour-long meet-ing with Palestinian presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas andPrime Minister SalamFayyad was held in Ramal-lah, on the West Bank.
In his talks with Abbas,Obama confirmed “that hewill be a constructive part-
ner in the peace process”and would not “waste aminute” if elected, said topPalestinian negotiator SaebErekat.
The Islamic militantHamas group, which rulesthe Gaza Strip, said Obamawas not welcome and criti-cized Abbas, a bitter rival,for receiving him.
“Obama wants to go tothe White House throughTel Aviv, at the expense ofthe Palestinians,” saidFawzi Barhoum, a Hamasspokesman.
But it was in this IsraeliContinued on Page 6 U
BAGHDAD —After Barack Obama met
with Iraqi leaders here onMonday, the Iraqi govern-ment outlined a possibleschedule for a U.S. troopwithdrawal that is similar tothe plan the Democraticpresidential candidate haspledged to follow if he iselected.
Its announcement bol-stered Obama’s credibilityon a key foreign policy is-sue, early in a weeklong tripto the Middle East and Eu-rope that was designed to re-assure voters concerned helacks the experience to becommander in chief.
It also gave him a boost inhis debate with Republicanpresidential candidate JohnMcCain over how to end thewar in Iraq. McCain has re-peatedly insisted that settinga firm withdrawal date ig-nores conditions on theground and could preventthe U.S. from winning thewar.
The renewed debate overtroop withdrawals is onemeasure of how Obama’strip – his second to Iraq andhis first as a presidentialcandidate – is reverberatingat home and abroad. Propos-als by political candidates
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AFGHANISTAN —Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obamamet with Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai for almosttwo hours Sunday in afriendly discussion that ad-dressed some of the troubledcountry’s challenges butavoided confrontation overtouchy issues such as civil-
ian casualties, militants inPakistan or Obama’s recentcriticism of Karzai.
In the meeting, the presi-dent, top Afghan officialsand the U.S. congressionaldelegation talked broadlyabout progress and prob-lems in Afghanistan since aU.S.-led invasion forced out
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Iraqi’s Schedule for TroopWithdrawal Close to Obama’s
Obama to Focus on BolsteringAfghanistan’s Future
Obama Meets Iraqi PrimeMinister in Baghdad
Obama ‘Committed to Israel’s Security’BERLIN (AP) – Before an
enormous crowd, Democrat-ic presidential contenderBarack Obama on Thursdaysummoned Europeans andAmericans together to “de-feat terror and dry up thewell of extremism that sup-ports it” as surely as theyconquered communism ageneration ago.
“The walls between oldallies on either side of theAtlantic cannot stand,” Oba-ma said, speaking not farfrom where the Berlin Wallonce divided the city.
“The walls between thecountries with the most andthose with the least cannotstand. The walls betweenraces and tribes, natives andimmigrants, Christian andMuslim and Jew cannotstand,” he said.
Obama said he was speak-ing as a citizen, not as a pres-ident, but the evening wasawash in politics. His re-marks inevitably invitedcomparison to historicspeeches in the same city byPresidents John F. Kennedyand Ronald Reagan, and heborrowed rhetoric from hisown appeals to campaignaudiences in the likes ofBerlin, N.H., when he ad-dressed a crowd in one of thegreat cities of Europe.
“People of Berlin, peopleof the world, this is our mo-ment. This is our time,” hesaid.
Obama’s speech was thecenterpiece of a fast-pacedtour through Europe de-signed to reassure skepticalvoters back home about hisability to lead the countryand take a frayed cross-At-lantic alliance in a new di-rection after eight years ofthe Bush administration.
Republicans, chafing atthe media attention Obama’scampaign-season trip hasdrawn, sought to stokedoubts abut his claims.
Obama met earlier in theday with Chancellor AngelaMerkel for a discussion thatranged across the wars inIraq and Afghanistan, cli-mate change, energy issuesand more.
Huge knots of bystanderswaited along Obama’s mo-torcade route for him to pass.One man yelled out in En-glish, “Yes, we can,” thesenator’s campaign refrain,when he emerged from hiscar to enter his hotel.
Obama drew loud ap-plause as he strode across alarge podium erected at thebase of the Victory Columnin Tiergarten Park in theheart of Berlin.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama ar-rives in Germany and faces huge crowds.
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On the latest stop of whatshe called an “improbablejourney,” Michelle Obamatook center stage on open-ing night of the DemocraticNational Convention onMonday, giving a spiritedpitch for her husband’spresidential candidacy.
As she took to the daisamid rousing applause,wearing a huggingturquoise dress, signs thatread “Michelle” were hoist-ed and cheers filled the Pep-si Center, where the con-vention is being held thisweek in Denver.
Poised to potentially bethe nation’s next first lady,Obama said she stood be-fore the delegation as a sis-ter, wife, mother and adaughter.
She went on to speak pas-sionately and highly of herupbringing, describing thein-pouring of values andlove her parents provided toher and her brother.
“I know firsthand…thatthe American Dream en-dures,” the Chicago SouthSide native told the delega-tions of Democrats fromaround the nation, who con-verged on the Rocky Moun-tain city for the quadrennialpolitical confab.
Michelle Obama hailedfrom a working-class familywhere her father was a cityemployee and her motherstayed at home.
She told about how herparents pushed educationand the importance of fami-ly, as well as what amount-ed to humanitarianism.
The Princeton and Har-vard-educated mother oftwo daughters told abouthow she gave up her job at alaw firm to return home toChicago and became a pub-lic servant.
But before she would
leave the law firm, she meta man whose principals mir-rored her own.
Though he was raised bya single mother and livedacross the country from herMidwest roots, MichelleObama said that she andBarack share similar famil-ial backgrounds.
In her stump for her hus-band, she painted a pictureof a Barack Obama shehoped constituents wouldrelate to and believe in.
“He was raised by grand-parents who were workingclass folks just like my par-ents and by a single motherwho struggled to pay thebills, just like we did. Likemy family, they scrimpedand saved so that he couldhave opportunities theynever had themselves,”Michelle Obama said.“Barack and I were raisedwith so many of the samevalues.”
A Harvard grad as well,Barack Obama abandonedaspirations of working onWall Street and went towork helping families dev-astated by job losses due tosteel mills closing, his wifeexplained.
Her comments spoke torecent campaign jibes byRepublican presidentialnominee John McCain ac-cusing the Illinois Senatorof being an elitist. Her mes-sage attempted to draw thenation closer to her hus-band, to reach out to thenaysayers and convincethem that “Barack will fi-nally bring the change weneed.”
The 15-minute speechembraced the workingclass, paid homage to thecultural trailblazers “whoseeveryday sacrifices havebrought us to this moment”and lifted up women.
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
DENVER, COLORADO
MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2008
As you might imagine, for Barack, running for Pres-ident is nothing compared to that first game of basket-ball with my brother Craig.
I can’t tell you how much it means to have Craig andmy mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dadlooking down on us, just as I’ve felt his presence in ev-ery grace-filled moment of my life.
At six-foot-six, I’ve often felt like Craig was lookingdown on me too…literally. But the truth is, both whenwe were kids and today, he wasn’t looking down on me– he was watching over me.
And he’s been there for me every step of the waysince that clear February day 19 months ago, when –with little more than our faith in each other and ahunger for change – we joined my husband, BarackObama, on the improbable journey that’s brought us tothis moment.
But each of us also comes here tonight by way of ourown improbable journey. I come here tonight as a sis-ter, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my pro-tector and my lifelong friend. I come here as a wifewho loves my husband and believes he will be an ex-traordinary president.
I come here as a Mom whose girls are the heart ofmy heart and the center of my world – they’re the firstthing I think about when I wake up in the morning andthe last thing I think about when I go to bed at night.Their future – and all our children’s future – is mystake in this election.
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From King’s Speech to Obama’s Speech: A DREAM REALIZED?
Michelle ObamaOffers Messageof Hope on FirstDay of DemocratConvention
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Congressman Jesse Jack-son Jr., a strong backer ofSen. Barack Obama’s cam-paign, catalogued the eventsleading up to the Thursdaynomination of Obama for theDemocratic ticket as a nearmountaintop moment.
Jackson mounted the stageon the opening night of theDemocratic National Con-vention Aug. 25 boldlydeclaring that the gatheringin Denver is the first of itskind to evoke the message ofhope and brotherhood thatDr. Martin Luther King Jr.brought.
“I’m sure Dr. King is look-ing down on us here in Den-ver, noting that this is thefirst political convention inhistory to take place withinsight of his mountaintop,”Jackson said. “On the dayPresident Johnson submittedthe Voting Rights Act toCongress, he said, ‘At times,history and fate meet at a sin-gle time in a single place toshape a turning point inman’s unending search forfreedom.’”
Jackson, son of civil rightsleader Rev Jesse Jackson Sr.,further delved into the signif-icance of the Obama candi-dacy and its relation to theCivil Rights Movement.
“So it was at Lexingtonand Concord. So it was atAppomattox. So it was inSelma, Alabama,” Congress-man Jackson said. “Tonight,I would like to add, and so itshall be in Denver, Colorado,with the nomination ofBarack Obama to be Presi-dent of the United States.”
Jackson said it is a remark-able thing that Obama, whocame to the Democratic con-vention four years ago askeynote speaker, would re-turn this time around theDemocratic Party’s nomineefor president.
Jesse Jr.Opens DNC Convention
BY CASH MICHAELS
Two weeks before his mo-mentous Democratic Na-tional Convention appear-ance in Denver, presumptivepresidential nominee Sen.Barack Obama knows he isin the fight of his life withGOP rival, Sen. John Mc-Cain, in their intense battlefor the White House.
After a barrage of nega-tive attack ads that ques-tioned the Illinois senator’sexperience and patriotism,and likened his celebrity tothat of fluff princesses likeBrittany Spears and ParisHilton, Obama is countingon a 50- state strategy toforce McCain to spread hisresources.
That means going toe-to-toe with the Arizona Repub-lican in so-called GOP-lean-ing states like North Caroli-na, which the Obama cam-paign has designated as atop tier target they intend totake from the Republicansthis presidential election.
While North Carolina re-mains very much a Demo-cratic state in terms of elect-ing its governor and statelegislature, the Tar Heelstate hasn’t been won by aDemocratic presidentialcandidate since a littleknown peanut farmer andgovernor of Georgia, JimmyCarter, took it in 1976.
The Obama campaignsays it plans to change thatparadigm and bringing moreeligible Black voters intothe process will be key.
There are 56 million un-registered voters nation-wide, 32 percent of the totaleligible voter ranks, theObama campaign says. Ofthat number, eight millionare Black, which is also 32percent of eligible AfricanAmerican voters.
Democrats don’t want torepeat the Black voter short-fall they had in the 2004presidential elections whenMassachusetts Sen. John
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Obama’sStrategy:MaximizeBlack Votein Election
BY TODD LEWAN —
The dreamer in him envi-sioned a day when “WhitesOnly” signs would nolonger hang in restaurantwindows. A time when ev-eryone’s desire to votewould be respected. A timewhen blacks and whiteswould work, pray and livetogether.
He spoke of an Americawhere people would bejudged not by the color oftheir skin, but by the contentof their character.
“I have a dream,” the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. pro-
claimed from the steps ofthe Lincoln Memorial onAug. 28, 1963, “that one daythis nation will rise up andlive out the true meaning ofits creed – ‘We hold thesetruths to be self-evident: thatall men are created equal.’”
The 45th anniversary ofthe iconic leader’s mostmemorable speech coin-cides with the day when an-other African-Americanleader, Barack Obama,makes a historic speech ofhis own – accepting theDemocratic Party’s nomina-tion for president of theUnited States.
Is the convention’s timingmerely, as Obama’s criticsmight suggest, politicalchoreography at its shiniest,one more seamlessly stagedperformance by a “rockstar” candidate?
Perhaps. And yet, it is al-so fitting: For if King in-spired Americans to con-front their bigotry or at leastdream of a more perfectunion, a candidate withObama’s profile surelyseems part of that dream’sfulfillment.
Does Obama’s candidacycomplete the circle, show-ing that we now live in a
colorblind society? Manywant to believe that our cul-ture has moved beyond itsracial problems, that theelection of a biracial manwould be a peculiarly Amer-ican achievement – an affir-mation of American ideals.
In some ways, the nationthat Obama will address isvisibly less divided alongracial lines than King’sAmerica.
In King’s day, racial in-equality was legally sanc-tioned: Separate parks, re-strooms, hotels, theaters,schools and drinking foun-
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When people askMichelle Obama to describeherself, she doesn’t hesitate.First and foremost, she isMalia and Sasha’s mom.
But before she was amother - or a wife, lawyer,or public servant - she wasFraser and Marian Robin-son’s daughter.
The Robinsons lived onthe South Side of Chicago,on the top floor of a brickbungalow. Fraser was apump operator for theChicago water department.He was a hero to Michelleand her older brother Craig:even though he had multiplesclerosis, he hardly evermissed a day of work. Mari-an stayed home to raiseMichelle and Craig, skillful-ly managing a busy house-hold filled with love, laugh-ter, and important lifelessons. Fraser and Marianvalued hard work, indepen-dence, and honesty. Today,their children point to theirparents as their greatestteachers.
Michelle attended Chica-go public schools, thenPrinceton. She studied soci-ology and African Americanstudies, graduated in the
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MichelleObamaPossiblyThe FirstBlack FirstLady
After decades of broken politics inWashington, eight years of failed poli-cies from George Bush, and twenty-onemonths of a campaign that has taken usfrom the rocky coast of Maine to thesunshine of California, we are oneweek away from change in America.
In one week, you can turn the page
on policies that have put the greed andirresponsibility of Wall Street beforethe hard work and sacrifice of folks onMain Street.
In one week, you can choose policiesthat invest in our middle-class, createnew jobs, and grow this economy fromthe bottom-up so that everyone has a
chance to succeed; from the CEO to thesecretary and the janitor; from the fac-tory owner to the men and women whowork on its floor.
In one week, you can put an end tothe politics that would divide a nationjust to win an election; that tries to pit
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BALLOT PROPOSITIONS
THE PROS AND CONS
Michelle Obama
BY ROBERT GREENE
Proposition 1AWhat it does: Authorizes $9.95 billion
in bonds to build an electric train to getpeople from Los Angeles to San Franciscoin just over 2 1/2 hours.
Back story: This is the governor’s andthe Legislature’s baby, years in the mak-ing. They pulled similar measures off bal-lots in 2004 and 2006 because the starsdidn’t align for a win. An earlier version(Proposition 1) also got pulled from the2008 ballot, this time for a revise (that’swhy it’s now designated 1A). Lawmakerswere arguing about, among other things,whether the train would run through Alta-mont Pass (the site of a deadly 1969Rolling Stones concert) or Pacheco Pass(site of the hokey but fun tourist stop Casade Fruta). They went with Pacheco.
Proposition 2What it does: Bars use of pens and
cages that don’t give farm animals room toturn around, stretch, stand or lie down.
Back story: This is all about chickens.The language on veal calves and sowstugs on voters’ heartstrings, but it’s moot;California produces virtually no commer-cial pork or veal. Chief opponents – eggproducers – argue that without tightcages, their chickens will eat each otherand their own droppings. No matter what,the caged chickens are doomed: After ashort life laying eggs, they are too spenteven for the soup pot.
Proposition 3What it does: Authorizes the sale of
$980 million in bonds to upgrade and ex-pand children’s hospitals in California.
Back story: With interest, the measurewould cost about $2 billion over 30 years.Backers are (no surprise) the state’s chil-dren’s hospitals. California voters autho-rized $750 million in bonds for this causein 2004; just under half of those bondshave yet to be sold. But how can voters sayno to sick kids?
Proposition 4Back story:Amends the state Constitu-
tion to require a physician to notify a mi-nor patient’s parent or other adult familymember 48 hours before performing anabortion.
Back story: Deja vu. Californians de-feated parental consent or notification forabortion measures in 2005 and 2006, buthad last year off. (There is no limit on howoften failed ballot measures may be resub-mitted to voters.) Proposition 4 adds the
“other adult family member” alternativeto answer critics of earlier propositions. Italso would require a girl who chooses thatalternative to allege parental abuse. TheLegislature passed a parental consent lawin 1987, but it never took effect. The stateSupreme Court upheld it in 1996, but onrehearing – after court membershipchanged – struck it down. Which is whyProposition 4 is a constitutional amend-ment.
Proposition 5What it does: Mandates probation with
treatment instead of jail or prison for manydrug crimes and diminishes sentences andshortens parole for many nonviolent prop-erty crimes when drugs are involved.
Back story: This measure pits two well-known liberals against each other – ac-tivist and actor Martin Sheen and billion-aire philanthropist George Soros. Sheen,whose son Charlie had high-profile drugproblems in the 1990s, leads the opposi-tion because, he has said, “successful re-habilitation requires accountability.”Soros and former Soros executive JacobGoldfied are Proposition 5’s top financialbackers. If voters pass Proposition 5 andProposition 6, they would simultaneouslyloosen and stiffen penalties for drug of-fenses.
Proposition 6What it does: Commits close to 1% of
the state’s annual general fund budget foranti-crime programs. The state LegislativeAnalyst’s Office estimates costs of $500million for additional prison space.
Back story: This is the Son of ThreeStrikes and Jessica’s Law. It’s sponsored inpart by Mike Reynolds, author of the 1994Three Strikes Initiative, and state Sen.George Runner (R-Lancaster), whose an-ti-sex-offender Proposition 83 – Jessica’sLaw – won 71% of the vote in 2006. Thetop donor is Henry T. Nicholas III, whogave $1 million (see Proposition 9).
Proposition 7What it does:Increases the clean-gener-
ation requirement on investor-owned utili-ties and extends them to municipal com-panies, like the Los Angeles Departmentof Water and Power.
Back story: The primary backer (with adonation of $3 million) is Peter Sperling,son of University of Phoenix founder, cat-cloner and octogenarian liberal proposi-tion-meister John Sperling (who in 2000gave California Proposition 36, mandat-ing treatment instead of prison for drug
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If there is anyone outthere who still doubtsthat America is a placewhere all things are pos-sible; who still wondersif the dream of ourfounders is alive in ourtime; who still questionsthe power of ourdemocracy, tonight isyour answer.
It’s the answer told bylines that stretchedaround schools andchurches in numbersthis nation has neverseen; by people whowaited three hours andfour hours, many for thevery first time in theirlives, because they be-lieved that this timemust be different; thattheir voice could be thatdifference.
It’s the answer spokenby young and old, rich
and poor, Democrat andRepublican, black,white, Latino, Asian,Native American, gay,straight, disabled andnot disabled – Ameri-cans who sent a mes-sage to the world thatwe have never been acollection of Red Statesand Blue States: we are,and always will be, theUnited States of Ameri-ca.
It’s the answer thatled those who have beentold for so long by somany to be cynical, andfearful, and doubtful ofwhat we can achieve toput their hands on thearc of history and bendit once more toward thehope of a better day.
It’s been a long timecoming, but tonight, be-cause of what we did onthis day, in this election, See Speech on Page 5 U
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WASHINGTON (AP) —Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black
president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslidethat overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white moth-er from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinoissealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen.John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battle-ground states - Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa.
A huge crowd in Grant Park in Obama’s home town ofChicago erupted in jubilation at the news of his victory.Some wept.
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UU Continued from Page 1with second-degree murderin the shooting of a womanwho allegedly sought to be-come a member but thenchanged her mind.
Late last month, two menwith ties to a notoriously vi-olent Klan chapter in Ken-tucky were charged in abizarre plot to kill 88 blackstudents and then decapitatean additional 14 students –
and then assassinate Obamaby shooting him from aspeeding car while wearingwhite tuxedos and top hats.
“We’ve seen everythingfrom cross burnings onlawns of interracial couplesto effigies of Obama hang-ing from nooses to unpleas-ant exchanges in school-yards,” said Mark Potok, di-rector of the IntelligenceProject at the Southern
Poverty Law Center, basedin Montgomery, Ala. “Ithink we’re in a worryingsituation right now, a perfectstorm of conditions comingtogether that could easily fa-vor the continued growth ofthese groups.”
Experts attribute the racistactivity to factors includingthe rapidly worsening eco-nomic crisis; trends indicat-ing that within a generation
whites will not comprise aU.S. majority; and the im-pending arrival of a blackfamily in the White House.
The FBI is investigatingwhether the recent Klan-re-lated incidents involve con-spiracies. And the Secret Ser-vice is monitoring the racistactivity “to try to stay aheadof any emerging threats,” ac-cording to spokesman DarrinBlackford.
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UU Continued from Page 1before he was found lyingdead on his bed. He posted alink from bodybuilding.comto Justin.tv, a site that allowsusers to broadcast livevideos from their webcams.
Some users who read theblog told investigators theydid not take him seriouslybecause he had threatenedsuicide on the site before.
But Biggs’ family was in-furiated that neither viewersnor the site acted sooner tosave him.
“When (police) came in,the webfeed stopped. Sothat’s 12 hours of watch-ing,” said his sister, Ros-alind Biggs, who said herbrother struggled with bipo-
lar disorder. “They got hits,they got viewers, nothinghappened for hours.”
Rosalind Biggs describedher brother as a friendly, so-cial, outgoing person whostruck up conversations withStarbucks baristas and en-joyed taking his youngnieces to Chuck E. Cheese.
“It boggles the mind,” shesaid. “We don’t under-stand.”
Authorities could not im-mediately verify the authen-ticity of a video posted on-line that shows a gun-wield-ing officer entering a bed-room where a man is lyingon a bed, facing away fromthe camera. The officerpeers over to look at the
man, then begins to examinehim as the camera lens iscovered. The video matchesCrane’s description ofevents.
Condolences poured in toBiggs’ MySpace page,where the mostly unsmilingteen is seen posing in a se-ries of pictures with variousyoung women. On justin.tv,his alias was “feels_like_ec-stacy.”
In a statement, Justin.tvCEO Michael Seibel said:“We regret that this has oc-curred and want to respectthe privacy of the broadcast-er and his family during thistime.”
The Web site declined torelease information on how
many people were watchingthe broadcast. The entire sitehad 672,000 unique visitorsin October.
Messages left with thebodybuilding Web site werenot immediately returnedFriday.
A spokesman for the Pem-broke Pines police said theywere investigating but de-clined further comment.
Crane said she knows ofat least one other case inwhich a South Florida manshot himself in the head infront of an online audience,although she didn’t knowhow much viewers saw. InBritain last year, a manhanged himself while chat-ting online.
UU Continued from Page 1is facing an economic crisisof “historic proportions.”
“If we do not act swfitlyand boldly most experts be-lieve that we could lose mil-lions of jobs next year,” hesaid.
To that end, Obama said,he sought an economic teamwith “sound judgment andfresh thinking.”
He praised Geithner, 47,for his experience and “un-paralleled understanding ofour current economic crisisin all of its depth, complexi-ty and urgency.”
“He will start his first dayon the job with a unique in-sight into the failures of to-day’s markets and a clear vi-sion of the steps we musttake,” Obama said.
The announcementsamounted to a display of as-
sertiveness by the incomingadministration in the face ofincreasingly grim economicnews.
On Monday, the govern-ment rushed to the rescue ofCitigroup by agreeing toshoulder hundreds of billionsof possible losses at thestricken bank and to plow afresh $20 billion into thecompany.
The incoming administra-tion is sending signals aboutwhat economic policies thenew president will propose,particularly an expandedeconomic stimulus packageaimed at creating or preserv-ing 2.5 million jobs duringthe next two years.
Obama, however, declinedto say how big a spendingpackage he wants to revivethe economy, but he told re-porters, “It’s going to be
costly.” Some Democraticlawmakers, particularly Sen.Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arespeculating about a two-yearmeasure as large as $700 bil-lion
The president-elect wasmildly critical of the BigThree automakers, saying hewas surprised they did nothave a better-thought-outplan for their future beforeasking Congress to approve$25 billion in emergencyloans. He said once he sees aplan, he expects “we’re go-ing to be able to shape a res-cue.”
But now that Obama hasnamed his economic team,they must decide not onlywhat to do about the eco-nomic crisis – but how muchthey should talk about it be-fore Jan. 20.
“They need to become as-
sertive in explaining wherehe wants to go and how hemight take us there,” saidPaul Light, a New York Uni-versity political scientist whostudies presidential transi-tions.
Transitions are always a“delicate balance,” Lightsaid, but the pressing eco-nomic crisis is creating asense of “drift” and publicanxiety.
“At some point the publicis going to start blamingObama for what’s going onhere,” he said.
Less than three weekssince a historic electionnight, Obama has filled mostof the top jobs on his WhiteHouse staff and floated thenames of potential picks formuch of his Cabinet. He isnow poised to announce hisnational security team.
UU Continued from Page 1a rare interview, the AP re-ports.
Wright also said he hadto keep his sense of humorduring the turmoil, laugh-ing when his granddaugh-ter showed him a NewYork Times column thatcalled him a “wackadoo-dle.”
But he was unapologeticabout remarks made at aWashington news confer-ence that led Obama tobreak with him. He said re-porters “spat in my face”by not asking any ques-tions about a speech he hadgiven about his theologicalviews prior to taking ques-tions.
Obama Chooses Economic Team...
Teen Commits Suicide on Webcam...
Wright Says ElectionNight Bittersweet...
BY MATT JAFFEA New York elementary
school has been re-namedin honor of President-electBarack Obama. Ludlum El-ementary School in LongIsland’s Hempstead UnionFree School District was re-named at a board meetingThursday, at the request ofnumerous school students.
“Just to watch these kidsafter the board voted onwhat they asked them to do,they were so elated,” schooldistrict superintendent Dr.Joseph Laria told ABCNews. “You want to talkabout “Yes we can!”? Thatwas a lesson in democra-cy.”
Effective immediately,Ludlum will now be knownas Barack Obama Elemen-tary School, following a de-cision by the board to adoptthe resolution drafted bystudents and staff.
Before this month’s elec-tion, the 5th grade class hada mock presidential debateat the school, which sitsnear Hofstra University,site of the third and finalpresidential debate betweenObama and Sen. John Mc-Cain, R-Ariz.
“The kids were really in-to it,” Laria said. “They hadthis fabulous debate…itwas just outstanding.”
“The children receivedsuch a response from thecommunity and the parents
that they were so energizedthat they said that if Obamabecomes president, wewould be so proud to haveour school named after him,especially because this is anAfrican-American andLatino community that cel-ebrates diversity,” said Lar-ia.
Most of the school’s stu-dents are African-Americanor Latino, the superinten-dent stated.
So on Thursday night thekids came before the boardto read essays describingwhat they had learned fromthe mock debate experienceand appealing for theschool to be re-named.
Their resolution read asfollows:
“Whereas the LudlumSchool students conducteda mock presidential debaterelated to the recent presi-dential elections andwhereas the students did awonderful job of carryingout their tasks and demon-strating their patriotism atan early age and whereas inrecognition of their effortsand the victorious feat ofSen. Barack Obama in be-coming the first African-American president of theUnited States, it be resolvedthat the Hempstead Boardof Education proudly re-names Ludlum ElementarySchool as the Barack Oba-ma Elementary School.”
Students RenameSchool for Obama
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UU Continued from Page 1from recording music.
“I think I did need to takea break. I honestly did,” shesays, sitting on a sleek chairin an even sleeker hotel roomduring a recent interview. “Ineeded to take a break evenpersonally so I could relaxand appreciate all the thingsthat I worked for.”
Of course, Beyonce beingBeyonce, her hiatus wasn’t acomplete vacation: She spentpart of that “break” filmingher upcoming movie, “Cadil-lac Records,” in which shepeels off the glamour to playR&B great Etta James duringher drug-addled years.
Beyonce says not only didthe role propel an actingbreakthrough, it provided amusical one, too.
“I felt like after I playedEtta James, and I sang thesebeautiful, emotional, deep,honest songs, I really learned
a lot about myself. And Iwanted to make classic mu-sic ... to grow and make thattransition into legendary,”she says.
Her bid at musical immor-tality comes this week withthe release of “I AM ...SASHA FIERCE,” her thirdsolo CD, something of a de-parture from the freneticfunk of her previous twomultiplatinum albums,“Dangerously in Love” and“B’Day.”
While the new album cer-tainly has its share of clubanthems - one of its first sin-gles is the bouncy jam “Sin-gle Ladies (Put A Ring OnIt)” - it is a double-CD withtwo personalities. The upbeatside is dubbed “SASHAFIERCE” (the namesake ofher onstage, divalicious alterego); the “I AM ...” portion isa ballad-centric pop albumthat features Beyonce at
what her father and manager,Matthew Knowles, calls hermost revealing.
“She shows more vulnera-bility on this record,” saysKnowles, who with Beyonceacts as executive producer.“That’s a natural growth ofher age and life experi-ences.”
Though Beyonce is an es-tablished veteran after morethan a decade in the spotlight(she made her debut alongwith the rest of the membersof Destiny’s Child in 1997),the 27-year-old has alwaysbeen among the more guard-ed celebrities, staying onmessage about her music andmovies while giving up littleabout her life outside thespotlight.
She still refuses to divulgemuch about her private life(other than confirming hermarriage to Jay-Z - a break-through itself - she declined
to speak much about the rela-tionship). But she seemsmore at ease during inter-views, more willing to let theSasha side of her personalitycome through. The day afterthe election of Barack Oba-ma, the giddy singer was ingood spirits, wearing a suit inhonor of the candidate shesupported and laughing oftenas she talked about politics,music, and her future.
“I’m learning the impor-tance of balance, which isone of the biggest (concerns)of all working women -when is it enough, when is ittime to relax, and to take careof yourself? But I’m veryproud of my progress,” sheadds with a laugh, “and I’mgrowing.”
Songwriter Makeba Rid-dick, who co-wrote songs on“B’Day” and was part of ateam of writers on the ballad“Ave Maria” with Beyonce,says that growth was appar-ent during the creation of “IAM ... SASHA FIERCE.”
Beyonce: A Bit More ‘Fierce’...
UU Continued from Page 1among children. She saidthat when she began test-ing for iron-deficiency – acondition that can lead tofatigue, attention-deficitdisorder and skin ailments– she thought the machinesused to test were malfunc-tioning because the rateswere so consistently high.
“The main problem isthere’s been such a lack ofstability,” Sinclair says.
This year, the Centersfor Disease Control andPrevention said it wouldlaunch a long-term studyof children who resided infederally issued trailersand mobile homes inLouisiana and Mississippi,hundreds of which werefound to have high levels
of toxins, such asformaldehyde.
Renaissance Village wasemptied this summer, andthe children and their fam-ilies relocated to perma-nent or other temporaryhousing. There are still atleast 9,300 families intrailers and 1,600 in hotelrooms across the GulfCoast, according to FE-MA.
The children in the Chil-dren’s Health Fund studyare probably some of thesickest of the estimated30,000 children living intrailers and temporaryhousing in the region,Redlener says. Many otherdisplaced children couldexperience similar symp-toms, he says.
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