The Sun Reporter back issues from April 2003:
Weekly Report
Apr 03, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 The army's senior ground commander in Iraq, Lt. General William Wallace, said last week that the overextended supply lines and a combative adversary using unconventional tactics have stalled the U.S. drive toward Baghdad ...
War Is A Dirty Business
Apr 03, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 The first President Bush acquired some knowledge of what war is really all about, having served with distinction as a navy airman, when he headed the nation as president in the first war against Iraq. The first war received the ...
More Pressure On Black Nightclubs
Apr 03, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 The African-American owners of Dorsey's Locker on Shattuck Avenue wanted to expand their operations from a restaurant and bar to offer live entertainment with music. However, the 61-year old business ran into a roadblock when neighbors ...
"Skinny Women Are Evil" New Book By Mo'Nique And Sherri McGee
Apr 03, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 "Mo'Nique has written a funny and moving book about how we treat each other and why no one has to take anyone else's crap anymore." Whoopi Goldberg, from her fore-word in SKINNY WOMEN ARE EVIL "Mo'Nique is straight crazy ..." -- Steve ...
David Robinson's Legacy Solidified
Apr 03, 2003; ... Moore, Gregory Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS -- If there is ever a point in a sportswriter's career where historical moments are embedded, it has to be when that scribe has witnessed one player receive the ultimate adulation by not only his fans and peers ...
Sports Pace; It's Time To Get Rolling Again
Apr 03, 2003; ... Washington, Huel Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the time has come to put that dreadful depression brought on by the San Francisco Giants' near-miss of a World Series championship for the first time since moving west behind us and ...
Malveaux At Large; Journalists Or Cheerleaders?
Apr 03, 2003; ... Malveaux, Julianne Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 Veteran correspondent Peter Arnett cooked his own goose when he gave an interview to Iraq's state-owned television and opined that the war was not going as well as our military leaders might like it to go. Questions have always ...
Sharon Robinson: Abandoned Black Child Now 40
Apr 03, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 Sharon Robinson, who is African American, made headline news on February 13, 1963. She was less than one hour old and she was found abandoned. She was crying and wrapped up and left in a car parked in East Oakland on East 14th Street (now ...
BWOPA Names Officers And Plans Lobby Day
Apr 03, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 Black Women Organized for Political Action celebrated Women's History Month recently by installing its 2003 State Board Members and Chapter Officers. The featured guest speaker was the Honorable Superior Court Judge Trina Thompson ...
New Health Report; Black Children Suffering More
Apr 03, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 Black children are more likely than their peers to have disabling chronic health problems and their rates are rising faster, according to a new and disturbing national report obtained by The Sun Reporter. The study comes as Bay Area Black ...
Lee: Protect Domestic Violence Victims
Apr 03, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-03-2003 Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee has introduced legislation that would protect victims of domestic violence who live in public and Section 8 housing. Under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's "one strike" policy, tenants ...
Weekly Report
Apr 10, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves from bondage when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, but the Congress of the United States made it legal when it passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the ...
A Different Oakland Story
Apr 10, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 In Oakland, a massive army of anti-war protestors marched from Mosswood Park to Frank Ogawa Plaza, where they made a festive but formidable stand for peace last Saturday. Legendary singer and veteran civil rights activist ...
What's To Be Gained From The President's Tax Plan
Apr 10, 2003; ... Brown, Carolyn M. Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 With With the tax-filing season around the corner, you are probably hustling to gather up receipts and pinpoint deductions that can be itemized. You are also hoping and praying for some of those tax cuts President George W. Bush ...
Blackonomics; Networking To Build Wealth - The George Fraser Way
Apr 10, 2003; ... Clingman, James Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 Well, he's at it again (as if he ever stopped). George Fraser will present his second annual Power Networking Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 19-22. Last year's event was "off the hook" as they say, and this one ...
African Americans Dominate Post-season Awards
Apr 10, 2003; ... Washington, Huel Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 For years African American basketball players envisioned their only chance to play basketball in this country would be on the playground, in high school, a black college, or with the Harlem Globetrotters or New York Rens. Not ...
Blacks Start Production On "The Spray"
Apr 10, 2003; ... Bailey, Chauncey Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 OAKLAND -- The House of Unity Studios at Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland has started production on a 90-minute movie called "The Spray." Filmmed on the streets of Oakland, the romantic comedy is about two rival and ...
Sports Pace; Let's Straighten Things Out
Apr 10, 2003; ... Washington, Huel Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 You know what people like about a democracy, it gives everyone a chance to express their opinion without resulting in serious consequences from a higher authority. But in some circumstances, a few of opinions are questionable and ...
Lee Pushes Student Loan Help Program
Apr 24, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Congresswoman Barbara Lee expressed satisfaction that the House employee student loan forgiveness program, which she introduced in the 107th Congress, is finally being implemented. The legislation was in the appropriations bill, but the ...
How Early Is Too Early For Professional Sports?
Apr 24, 2003; ... Wamble, Marvin Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 If I ever want a rousing conversation with my wife, I only need to mention athletes who leave college early to become professionals. If I want to turn up the heat a little, I espouse the values of high school athletes ...
Turfgrass Program Reaches Out To Blacks
Apr 24, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Now that Tiger Woods has more young African Americans thinking about golf and even picking up some clubs, there is a new movement to get Blacks to consider other careers related to the greens. In Oakland, there's a new golf course -- ...
Sports Pace; Isn't It Tee Time Ladies?
Apr 24, 2003; ... Washington, Huel Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Ladies, as the Ladies Professional Golf Association gets under way for the spring and summer tour, aren't our sisters forgetting something. Don't you play golf, too. Last weekend, the tour came to the Las Vegas County Club to ...
Jazz Legend Simone Dies
Apr 24, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died at the age of 70 at her home in southern France, her agent has announced. Simone was one of the last divas of jazz and was considered one of the finest songwriters and musicians of her ...
Weekly Report
Apr 24, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Molly Ivins, a syndicated columnist whose columns appear in a daily paper in Fort Worth Texas, and now appears in newspapers frequently in the nation, is one of the best in the nation. Her writings reminds me of J. Frank ...
Taxes Will Increase
Apr 24, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 The five stages of a crisis are regarded as anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. In Sacramento, lawmakers and the legions of government supplicants appear stuck in denial. With less than two months before the state ...
Bay Area Joins Fight To Save Black College
Apr 24, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Many have children who attended Morris Brown College. Others just hate the thought of seeing a Black college go under. Regardless of the motivation, African Americans in the Bay Area are joining the movement to save the school in ...
Lennar Group Drives Shipyard Project
Apr 24, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 Africans Americans at the Lennar/Bayview Hunters Point Co., a construction development and management firm, are a driving force behind the proposed multi-million-dollar, 93-acre Shipyard Project that will bring homes, jobs, retailing -- and ...
Malveaux At Large; Remembering Nina Simone
Apr 24, 2003; ... Malveaux, Julianne Sun Reporter, The 04-24-2003 The first time I saw Nina Simone sing, I was an undergraduate student at Boston College. This is back in the day when we all thought that "To Be Young Gifted and Black" had been written individually for each of us, and that it ...
Weekly Report
Apr 17, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 The nation's prison population swelled to more than 2 million for the first time last year, with nearly one in every 142 U.S. residents behind bars, according to the U.S. Justice Department. In a one day head count ...
Joblessness No Problem To President
Apr 17, 2003; ... Fleming, Thomas C. Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 The idea was unusual, even innovative by some standards: give unemployed Americans up to $3,000 for job search expenses and let them keep what's left over if they find work and stay employed. But the new program widely ...
Blacks Raise Funds For Lotho
Apr 17, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Acivic leader in Oakland's African-American community is being helped after an ex-tended hospital stay resulted in a financial burden. Lothario Lotho, who once ran for mayor of Oakland, was honored during a reception at Mingles in Jack ...
Gary Hardwick: Black Screenwriter Writes Novel
Apr 17, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Gary Hardwick, a talented African-American screen-writer, was in the Bay Area this week as part of book tour for "Sex Life" -- his riveting futuristic novel. Writing under the name A.A. Clifford, he serves up a story that unfolds in New ...
Billy Dee Williams To Be Honored At Film Festival
Apr 17, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Billy Dee Williams, the popu-lar African-American actor, will receive the Pioneer Award at this year's San Francisco Black Film Festival, organizers said this week. Williams has been in numerous films including "Lady Sings The Blues" ...
Sports Pace; Now, There Are The National Hockey Playoffs
Apr 17, 2003; ... Washington, Huel Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Ever since Willie O'Ree and Grant Fuhr made hockey sit up and take notice that blacks can ice skate and play hockey too, the brothers have been becoming more and more prevalent in the National Hockey League. Last year, when ...
Kevin Kelley Talked But Failed To Walk
Apr 17, 2003; ... Washington, Huel Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Former featherweight champion Kevin Kelley, a resident of Las Vegas, not only failed to live up to his pre-fight predictions against Marco Antonio Barrera last weekend, promoter John Jackson should ask the commission how much of ...
Record Number Of Blacks Behind Bars
Apr 17, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 There are now 2 million inmates in American jails and prisons -- swelled by a record number of African Americans, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and obtained by The Sun Reporter. An estimated 12 percent of ...
The Failed Sanders Coup
Apr 17, 2003; ... Griffin, Noah Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Make no mistake about it, the recent failed effort to topple the Sanders administration of the San Francisco Police Department was nothing more than an attempted coup. It was organized and spearheaded by ambitious individuals within ...
38th Far Western Regional Conference
Apr 17, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 "The Skills and the Will: The Key to Success and Achievement" was the theme of the 38th Far Western Regional Conference of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., was held on March 28-30, 2003 at the Cathedral Hill Hotel. The conference, ...
Deputy Chief David Robinson Speaks Out
Apr 17, 2003; ... Bailey, Chauncey Sun Reporter, The 04-17-2003 Deputy Chief David Robinson, one of the high highest-ranking African Americans in the San Francisco Police Department, said racial bias and a get-Mayor Willie Brown mindset helped drive an out of-control Grand Jury process aimed ...
More Blacks Going Online
Apr 10, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 So much for the "digital divide" -- the gap between Blacks and whites in terms of getting into computers and cyberspace. Well, at least it's getting smaller. More than 10 million African Americans are online, according to a ...
Blacks Fight For AIDS Funding
Apr 10, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 A measure to address AIDS across the world has cleared the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, by a vote of 37 to 8, and Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee played a key role in the rejection of conservative ...
Blacks Mobilize To Save Log Cabin Ranch
Apr 10, 2003 ... Sun Reporter, The 04-10-2003 A facility that has helped redirect troubled African-American youths is facing closure due to budget cutbacks, but Blacks are working hard to keep the program going. "Most of the young people who come here, 80 percent, are African ...