Jet back issues from August 1998:
NAACP Holds 89th Convention In Atlanta.
Aug 03, 1998 ... With a focus securely set on addressing the main problems in the Black community, the NAACP held a triumphant 89th convention in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center in which more than 3,000 delegates attended. Among the highlights of the convention were addresses from ...
Gore Announces Plan To Boost Loans To Black Businesses At NAACP Convention.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Vice President Al Gore, speaking to delegates at the NAACP convention, announced an initiative through a partnership with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the NAACP that will increase lending to Black-owned businesses. The partnership calls for the SBA to deliver $1.4 ...
TICKER TAPE.
Aug 03, 1998; ... Confidential: Black voters in Richmond, VA, were all ready to unite in order to select a Black mayor for the city when Virginia's new governor, Jim Gilmore, named William B. Allen, a Black conservative, as the state's director of higher education, and later picked NAACP branch executive ...
National Headliners.
Aug 03, 1998 ... First Black chief National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon will be Maj. Gen. Russell C. Davis, a distinguished flier and Tuskegee Institute graduate. President Bill Clinton has asked the U.S. Senate to confirm him ... The first Black Chair of the Maryland Public ...
Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Wed In South Africa.(South Africa's President marries Graca Machel)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Wedding bells recently rang for South Africa's favorite couple--South African President Nelson Mandela and his long-time sweetheart, Graca Machel. President Mandela celebrated his 80th birthday by exchanging diamond-studded wedding rings with Ms. Machel, the 52-year-old widow of ...
This Week in Black History.
Aug 03, 1998 ... July 31, 1874 On this day, Patrick Francis Healy became the first Black president of a predominantly White university. He was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the oldest Catholic university in America. Healy, who studied at Louvain in ...
PEOPLE.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Anna Perez, former vice president of government relations for The Walt Disney Company in Burbank, CA, and press secretary to first lady Barbara Bush, has been named general manager of corporate communications and programs for Chevron Corporation in San Francisco, CA. She heads a 38-person ...
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Celebrates 90th Anniversary In Chicago.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Greek-letter sorority founded in America by and for Black women, recently held its 58th Boule in Chicago celebrating the organization's 90 years of community service and outreach. At the 7-day confab, the sorority named as its 25th Supreme Basileus ...
Devoted Deaf And Blind Teacher Provides Inspiration For Students Like Herself.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Jerrie Lawhorn can neither see nor hear, but her imagination allows her to see clearly, and what she can't hear, she can feel in her soul. Lawhorn is a teacher at the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, IL, and has been inspiring students there for the past 31 years. For ...
SOCIETY WORLD.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Romance Forever: Dr. Aldous Wilson married the former Robyn Scott at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Nashville, TN. The bride, a graduate of Morris Brown College and Tennessee State University, is pursuing a graduate degree in biomedical engineering. The groom, a graduate of Morehouse College ...
Samantha Ivy, Daughter Of Nancy Wilson, Weds In Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Samantha Ivy, the 23-year-old daughter of jazz legend Nancy Wilson, recently exchanged vows with Naeem Majied during an outdoor ceremony in suburban Los Angeles overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In a double-ring ceremony in the elegant community of Rancho Palos Verdes, the bride ...
Clinton OKs Site For Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial In Washington.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... A national monument to slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be located between the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building under a measure signed recently by President Clinton. In 1996, Congress authorized the memorial's creation on federal land in ...
U.S. Rep. Davis Fights To Save Teen Summer Jobs, Housing Assistance.(Representative Danny K. Davis)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Responding to GOP action in a House committee to eliminate two crucial programs for the nation's poor, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL) called on Congress to restore funding for Low-Income Home Assistance and the summer jobs program for disadvantaged teenagers. "I intend to fight ...
Florida House Rev. Henry Lyons Owned With Ex-Employee Bernice Edwards In Foreclosure.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Foreclosure proceedings have begun on the $700,000 house in St. Petersburg, FL, that National Baptist Convention USA Inc. (NBC), President Rev. Henry Lyons owned with Bernice Edwards, the convention's former public relations director for corporate affairs. World Savings and ...
Georgia State Sen. Abernathy Cancels Bid For Re-Election.(Ralph Abernathy III)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Georgia state Sen. Ralph Abernathy III, said he will not run for re-election as an independent. The embattled senator was disqualified from the Democratic primary after his qualifying check bounced. He vowed at ...
GOSPEL STAMPS.(gospel singers Mahalia Jackson, Roberta Martin, Clara Ward and Sister Rosetta honored with commemorative stamps)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... GOSPEL STAMPS: The United States Postal Service recently released four Commemorative stamps honoring legendary gospel singers Mahalia Jackson (19111972), Roberta Martin (1907-1969), Clara Ward (1924-1973) and Sister Rosetta (Tharpe) (1915-1973). They were officially issued during a ...
Angela Bassett Scraps Nude Scenes In Upcoming Movie `How Stella Got Her Groove Back'.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Versatile actress Angela Bassett, who is set to star in the upcoming movie, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, told the August issue of W magazine that she choreographed nude scenes for herself in the steamy movie but then decided to scratch them. "They can put their own ideas of ...
A VETERAN EMBRACE.(1999 National Veterans Wheelchair Games)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... A VETERAN EMBRACE: Joe Jackson of Arlington, TX (r), embraces Ed DesLauriers of Lower Burrell, PA, after a wheelchair softball game, an event of the ...
Madeleine Albright Is First U.S. Secretary Of State To Address Black Diplomat Group.(Thursday Luncheon Group)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... For the first time ever, the U.S. secretary of state has attended a meeting of the Thursday Luncheon Group (TLG) in the nation's capital, and addressed the organization. Founded 25 years ago by two Black Foreign Service officers, the organization grew steadily and has become the ...
Diplomat Shirley Barnes Is Confirmed For Envoy Post In Madagascar.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... A graduate of City University of New York who was born in St. Augustine, FL, but considers New York City home, recently was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Madagascar. For Ambassador Shirley Elizabeth Barnes, the promotion was a step ...
Women Taking Viagra Despite Inconclusive Studies.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Doctors say a growing number of women are taking the anti-impotence drug Viagra despite the lack of studies that prove it will amplify female sexual response. "I've heard reports from all around the country of doctors prescribing it off-label to women," Dr. John Bancroft, ...
HEAT WAVE.
Aug 03, 1998 ... HEAT WAVE: Annie Dennis, 78, holds a water bottle she carries with her during hot weather as she leaves a Dallas community center. Dennis joins other elderly people there for lunch and an air-conditioned break from this summer's heat. About 100 senior citizens have flocked to the center to ...
Mandela Declares `Get Tough' Policy to Combat Political Violence By Security Forces In South Africa.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... South African President Nelson Mandela vowed to combat "sinister" elements in the security forces amid allegations that police may be involved in political violence that left 10 people dead in one weekend. Mandela, obviously shaken after seeing some of the dead bodies, told a ...
Newly Released Letter By Deceased Nigerian Prisoner Abiola Cited End To Military Rule;, His Return To Politics.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Days after he died while still imprisoned in government custody, Nigeria's most prominent political prisoner made an eloquent appeal from the grave for an end to military rule and freedom for his people. Moshood Abiola described in a letter the isolation and despair of life ...
Jordan Makes Strong Hint At Retirement.(Michael Jordan)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Without making it an official announcement, basketball great Michael Jordan gave some strong hints that his sixth championship with the Chicago Bulls will be his last. "I feel like I've shut basketball off completely," he said after playing in the Ameritech Senior Open Pro-Am in ...
Tyson Ordered To Pay Former Trainer $4.4 Million For Breach Of Contract.
Aug 03, 1998 ... Mike Tyson has been ordered to pay his former trainer, Kevin Rooney, $4.4 million for breach of contract because Tyson failed to keep his verbal promise to employ Rooney for the rest of his career. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based its ruling on the findings of a New ...
Deion Sanders Inspires Following Through Weekly Bible Service And His Changed Life.(football players embraces religion and stays clear of sex)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Deion Sanders can electrify a crowd. As a star cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys, he makes cheering fans leap to their feet as he scores touchdowns and intercepts passes. Now in addition to getting people excited about football, the new Sanders is getting people excited about ...
READY TO FIGHT.(George Foreman and Larry Holmes scheduled to fight)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... READY TO FIGHT: Heavyweight boxer George Foreman playfully takes a bite out of fellow boxer Larry Holmes' book, Against the Odds, during a news conference in New York. The two fighters, both former heavyweight champions, announced their ...
Friends Of 76ers Star Allen Iverson Arrested In His Car After Alleged Drug Deal.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Two long-time acquaintances of Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson were using his car when they were arrested after allegedly completing a drug deal, Norfolk VA, police said. Michael Powell, 29, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, a felony. Andre ...
John Henrik Clarke, 83, Black Studies Pioneer, Distinguished Scholar, Dies.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Aug 03, 1998 ... John Henrik Clarke, a pioneer in African and African-American studies and history professor who did extensive research in every African country except South Africa, recently died of a heart attack at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. He was 83. Clarke, a native ...
Retired Chicago Judge, Abstract Artist, Mark Jones, 77, Succumbs.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Mark E. Jones Jr., a retired Chicago judge and noted abstract artist, recently died at his Hyde Park home in Chicago. He was 77. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, his ex-wife, Jeanne Boger Jones, told JET. Jones, a former associate judge of the Chicago ...
Why Are So Many Couples Living Together Before Marriage?(cohabitation and marriage successes)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Today, when the institution of marriage seems to be less and less revered, and 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, many couples are living together in order to "test drive" holy matrimony before they say "I do." But is playing house before signing on the dotted line the ...
1st Black Air Force Secretary Nominee Fights On Despite Debate.(Daryl Jones)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... For eight months, Florida state Sen. Daryl Jones has been trying to win approval as the first Black Air Force Secretary at the Pentagon. When President Clinton's nominee finally reached the Senate Armed Forces Committee for a confirmation hearing in Washington, opponents fired ...
Sexual Battery Charges Against Singer Bobby Brown Are Dropped.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Prosecutors in Los Angeles recently dropped sexual battery charges against singer Bobby Brown. Victoria Pipkin, a spokesperson for the District Attorney's office, told reporters: "It's my understanding it's due to insufficient evidence." Brown was arrested June 21 ...
Jesse Jackson Urges Wall Street Investors To Put More Resources Into Inner-City, Minority Communities.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Rev. Jesse Jackson recently told Wall Street investors that it makes no sense to overlook the $600 billion in annual spending power within the U.S.'s inner-city and rural communities. "What have been looked at as poverty zones really are markets. And yet they have not been seen ...
SCLC President Martin L. King III Explains Rift With Organization's Women's Group.(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... A vote by the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) viewed by many as a vote to sever ties with its women's organization was in fact a vote to reunite the group within the mainstream organization, SCLC President Martin Luther King III said. In a statement ...
JET top 20 ALBUMS.
Aug 03, 1998 ... 1. DA LAST DON Master P (No Limit) 2. NEVER SAY NEVER Brandy (Atlantic) 3. RATED NEXT Next (Arista) 4. COOL RELAX Jon B. (Yab Yum) 5. SPARKLE Sparkle (Rock Land) 6. HAV PLENTY Various Artists (Yab Yum) 7. IT'S DARK AND ...
Pam Grier, Steven, Williams And Georg Stanford Brown Star In Showtime Comedy Series `Linc's'.(television)(Brief Article)
Aug 03, 1998 ... Pam Grier, Steven Williams and Georg Stanford Brown join forces in the new Showtime comedy series "Linc's." The edgy ensemble comedy, slated to air August 1, is set in Linc's Bar & Grill, a popular Washington, D.C., watering hole. Russell A. Lincoln, played by ...
More Married Blacks Choose To Have Fewer Children: Report.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Many married Blacks are not following in the tradition of their parents who had large families. Recent figures from the National Center for Health Statistics show that there has been a steep decline in the birth-rate for married Black couples, the New York Times reported. ...
KKK Ordered To Pay $37.8 Mil. In S.C. Church Burning Case.(Ku Klux Klan)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... Ku Klux Klansmen must pay $37.8 million for creating a climate of hate that led to a fire in 1995 that destroyed the predominantly Black Macedonia Baptist Church in Manning, SC, a jury recently decided. The verdict went beyond the $25.2 million in damages originally sought by ...
TICKER TAPE.(voter registration amongst African Americans and other stories)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998; ... Confidential: Politicos are surprised that not one of the major Black organizations holding national conventions this summer zeroed in on the crucial issue of voter registration. While voting is down all cross the country and residents in many areas are apathetic, none suffer like the ...
National Headliners.(Nelson Mandela, Howard Univeristy hosts National Association of Black Journalists, and Oakland church celebrates 100 years)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... A Congressional gold medal, Capitol Hill's highest honor for a civilian, was voted for South African President Nelson Mandela ... Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton needs the active support of Black leadership as she seeks full voting rights for residents of the nation's capital ... The right move ...
Five World War II Vets Get Bronze Star.(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... Five World War II veterans who were among the 2,221 Black soldiers who answered a call from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in 1944 and joined White troops on the front lines in battle but were left out when those same White soldiers were honored finally got their deserved recognition. ...
Gen. Davis Nominated For Chief Of Air Force National Guard Bureau.(Russell C. Davis)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen recently has announced that President Bill Clinton nominated Maj. Gen. Russell C. Davis for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general with the assignment as chief of National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon. Currently serving as a vice ...
Mandela Follows African Custom, Paid Bride's Family 60 Cows, Newspaper Reports.(Nelson Mandela pays bride price)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... South African President Nelson Mandela, who recently wed his longtime sweetheart Graca Machel (JET, Aug. 3), reportedly followed an African tradition and paid his bride's family 60 cows for her hand in marriage, according to South Africa's Star newspaper. Mandela reportedly sent ...
Officers Killed In Line Of Duty At Capitol Honored There.(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... The caskets bearing the bodies of Black Capitol Police Officer Jacob J. Chestnut, 58, and fellow officer John M. Gibson, 42, were placed in the Capitol Rotunda for a public viewing three days after they were shot and killed inside the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. ...
Is It True That Money Can't Buy Happiness?(celebrities discuss the relation between money and happiness)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... Money, money, money. It seems everybody wants it. Those who have it want more. And those who don't have it wish they did. But can money buy happiness? JET contacted a wide range of experts from some of the world's richest entertainers, lottery winners, psychologists, ...
This Week In Black History.(Ralph J. Bunche: August 7, 1904)(Brief Article)
Aug 10, 1998 ... August 7, 1904 * Ralph J. Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations (U.N.) from 1955 to 1971, was born on this day in Detroit. Appointed to the U.N. Palestine Commission in 1947, he is best remembered for his mediation during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1949. That same ...
King's `I Have A Dream' Speech Belongs To The Public, Judge Rules.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have A Dream" speech belongs to the public, and CBS News did not infringe copyright by reproducing it for a documentary series, a federal judge recently ruled. "As one of the most public and most widely disseminated speeches in ...
President Clinton Signs Underground Railroad Act To Preserve Sites Of Historic Slave Escape Route.
Aug 10, 1998 ... President Clinton recently signed into law a bill that will help preserve the slave escape route known as the Underground Railroad. The law authorizes the National Park Service to spend $500,000 a year to link the sites of the Underground Railroad, produce educational materials ...
Congress Considers Medals For `Little Rock Nine'.
Aug 10, 1998 ... The "Little Rock Nine," the Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR, more than 40 years ago, soon may receive Congressional Gold medals if the plans of Sen. Dale Bumpers are carried out. Speaking on the Senate floor, the Arkansas senator said, "The ...
UNCF/MERRILL LYNCH SCHOLARS DONATION.
Aug 10, 1998 ... William H. Gray III, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), accepts a $400,000 mock check from Herbert A. Allison Jr., president and COO, Merrill Lynch and Co. Inc., at Merrill Lynch headquarters in New York for the UNCF/Merrill Lynch Scholars Program. The program is ...
Ruffin Elected Chair Of Univ. Of N. Carolina Board.
Aug 10, 1998 ... By a single vote, tobacco executive Ben Ruffin was elected the first Black chairman of the board of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In a historic shakeup, Ruffin, the vice president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company in Winston-Salem, NC, eked out the narrow ...
SUPPORTING EDUCATION IN AFRICA.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Rev. Leon Sullivan, founder and convener of the African-African American Summit, graciously accepts a $50,000 check from Jewel Smith, president of The Links, that will be used to support educational programs in Africa during the recent first ...
SOCIETY WORLD.
Aug 10, 1998 ... * Christian Bond: Robert Howard and Toya D. Horn married at the Thorndike-Hilton Chapel in Chicago, IL. The bride, a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Washington in Seattle, is an account executive for multifamily housing at Fannie Mae. The groom, a graduate of the ...
FASHION.
Aug 10, 1998 ... * GRAND PRIZE DRAWING: Ian G. Beavis, marketing communications manager, Lincoln-Mercury Division, and Mary Williams, communications coordinator, Lincoln-Mercury Division, hold up the winning entry after pulling it for the recent Ebony Fashion Fair end-of-tour random drawing at ...
Thompson Family Of Surviving Sextuplets Get $210,000 Dream House In D.C.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Linden and Jackie Thompson and their five surviving sextuplets who made headlines (JET, Jan. 5, 1998) recently stepped into their new $210,000, six-bedroom, Victorian-style home in the Northeast section of Washington, D.C. It was a major event for their family and the local ...
Ex-Bond Trader Jett Cleared Of Fraud; Must Pay $8.2 Mil.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Joseph Jett, the former Wall Street bond trader accused of creating fictitious profits that earned him multimillion dollar bonuses, recently was cleared of securities fraud, but was barred from working for a brokerage firm and ordered to pay $8.2 million. The recent decision was ...
NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Nationally-syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner, whose "The Tom Joyner Show" kicked off the recent 10th anniversary of the National Black Arts festival in Atlanta with a special live broadcast, celebrates the festival's success with Deborah Richardson, managing director, National Black ...
Three Books By Black Authors Among 100 Best English-Language Novels Of The 20th Century.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Three classic books written by lauded Black authors were chosen for the list of 100 best English-language novels published this century. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Richard Wright's Native Son and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain were the only novels by Black ...
OFFICIAL PORTRAIT.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Former U.S. Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary and current Energy Secretary Federico F. Pena applaud after O'Lerry's official government portrait was unveiled. The ceremony and reception were held at the Department ...
Rufus Thomas Recuperating After Heart Surgery.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Soul pioneer Rufus Thomas, best known for the 1964 soul classic Walking The Dog and 1970's Do The Funky Chicken, is recovering at his Memphis home after triple-bypass heart surgery. Thomas, 81, was admitted to the hospital after suffering chest pains. He underwent six hours of ...
Chris Rock Signs Three-Year TV Deal With HBO.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Chris Rock's fans will be happy to know they'll be getting a chance to see a lot more of him real soon. Home Box Office (HBO) recently signed Rock to an exclusive multiyear TV deal, according to Chris Albrecht, president, HBO Original Programming. The agreement covers the new ...
Spike Lee Purchases Home In Manhattan.
Aug 10, 1998 ... Critically acclaimed movie director Spike Lee recently purchased a town house in Manhattan's exclusive Upper East Side for a reported $7.25 million, according to news reports. Lee moved his family ...
Acclaimed Author Benilde Little Feted At `Tea For Ladies Only!' In L.A.
Aug 10, 1998 ... In celebration of her new book, The Itch, author Benilde Little recently was honored during a "Tea For Ladies Only!" while in Los Angeles to promote the novel. Little, who also penned the popular book, Good Hair, enjoyed the special affair with several actress ...