Jet articles from August 2002

Jet archives from August 2002

NAACP upholds freedom at 93rd convention in Houston. (National Report).
August 5, 2002... NAACP President and CEO Kweisi Mfume said Americans must worry to preserve their civil rights in the post-Sept. 11 world because fear of terrorism can lead to individual liberties being trampled. Delivering the keynote address at the recent...

Ticker tape.
August 5, 2002... Confidential: After upsetting Rep. Earl Hilliard, Alabama's 34-year-old lawyer Artur Davis has become one of the most sought-after politicians on the eve of the fall election. Should he switch parties, Republicans see him as a timely...

National headliners.
August 5, 2002... In his race to become Texas' first Black U.S. senator, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk leads his GOP opponent, Atty. Gen. John Cornyn, according to surveys. The outcome is not so rosy for others. Former New York state housing commissioner Joseph...

FraserNet and Ford Motor Company host African American Business Hall of Fame. (Business).
August 5, 2002... Critically acclaimed author George C. Fraser's company FraserNET and the Ford Motor Company recently honored Black business leaders during the nation's first African American Business Hall of Fame ceremony in Cleveland. The Hall of Fame...

Holliday still bringing down the house. (Celebrities).
August 5, 2002... Holliday Still Bringing Down The House: Tony award-winning singer-actress Jennifer Holliday brings down the house as she sings I Am Changing during a Dreamgirls revival at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Below, Holliday performs with fellow cast...

Rapper Mystikal accused of aggravated rape and extortion in Louisiana. (Celebrities).
August 5, 2002... Rap star Mystikal is accused of raping a woman with two other men at his home and attempting to accuse the woman of theft. Much of the alleged attack was videotaped, police said. Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, surrendered to...

How to keep cholesterol in check. (Health).
August 5, 2002... Mention the word "cholesterol" and you will undoubtedly invoke images of fat-clogged arteries and heart attacks in most people's minds. And that's quite understandable since high amounts of cholesterol in your blood can lead to heart disease,...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. (People).
August 5, 2002... Barbara Johnson, formerly a partner at the Houston-based law firm Wickliff & Hall, has joined the international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in its Washington, D.C., office as an employment law partner. In the post she will...

City Council of Columbia. (People).
August 5, 2002... Tameika Isaac, a 29-year-old family law attorney, is the first Black female member of the City Council of Columbia, SC. Isaac defeated 16-year incumbent Frannie Heizer for an at-large city council seat. A graduate of the University of South...

National Council of Negro Women. (People).
August 5, 2002... Cheryl R. Cooper, former chief of staff for AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), has been named executive director of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in Washington, D.C. The NCNW is a coalition of 38 national organizations...

National Black Nurses Association. (People).
August 5, 2002... Fannie Gaston-Johansson, RN, Ph.D., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and director of the university's International and Extramural Affairs in Baltimore, has been selected for the National Black Nurses...

Denny. (People).
August 5, 2002... Margaret L. Jenkins, former vice president of marketing for Irvine, CA-based El Pollo Loco restaurants, has been named senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Denny's restaurants at its corporate headquarters in Spartanburg, SC....

This week in Black history.
August 5, 2002... July 31, 1981-- * Arnette R. Hubbard, attorney, was installed as the 39th president of the National Bar Association (NBA) in Detroit on this day, becoming the first woman in the history of the organization to be elected to the post....

Society world.
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Tackled By Love: Sabrina Adams became the wife of Alexander Willis at the Jesus People Life Changing Church in Gainesville, FL. The bride is an area team leader with Target. She is a graduate of the...

Cocaine and alcohol found in body of man who piloted Aaliyah's plane in fatal crash. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... The pilot of the small plane that crashed in the Bahamas last year which killed the 22-year-old singer-actress Aaliyah and eight others (JET, Sept. 10), had traces of cocaine and alcohol in his body, aviation officials said. An autopsy...

Shaq's ride? It's a super, man! (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... It pays to be No 1. NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal of the world champion L.A. Lakers gets set to hop into his brand-new custom-made $100,000 2002 Twizim Cadillac Escalade. The Shaq-mobile, a supersized SUV, came complete with a tattoo-matching...

Champ gets another title. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis tips his top hat to the crowd as he shows off the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) medal he received during a recent ceremony at Britain's Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles awarded the...

Candace S. Matthews named president of Soft Sheen-Carson. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... Candace S. Matthews recently was appointed president of Soft Sheen-Carson, a L'Oreal USA company. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Matthews obtained a bachelor of science in metallurgical engineering and...

Clemmons is first Black General to head National War College in D.C. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... For the first time in the history of the National War College, a well decorated Black field artillery officer leads the college that is considered the country's highest-level government academic institution. That officer is Major General...

New Alabama State Bar president. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Civil rights lawyer Fred Gray Sr., who represented Rosa Parks in her landmark bus desegregation case, shown in his office in Tuskegee, AL, is the new president of the Alabama State Bar Association--the first...

Five years of giving back the love. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Comedian-actor Joe Torry (r) is congratulated by his comedian-actor brother Guy Torry on the success of the Joe Torry Giving Back the Love Foundation's fifth annual Joe Torry Celebrity Basketball Challenge...

Nigerian women agree to end peaceful siege of oil facility. (Newsmakers).
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Female protesters sing and dance on the docks at the ChevronTexaco oil facility in Escravos, Nigeria, after they heard news that the oil company will hire 25 villagers and construct schools, electrical and...

In praise of Patti. (the week's best photos).
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: The incomparable Patti LaBelle, who discarded her trademark high heels, brings the audience to its feet during a soulful concert at the 20,000-member West Angeles Church of God In Christ in L.A. She was...

Beauty of the week.
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: ELIZABETH COXSON is from Largo, MD. The 5-foot-9 model enjoys traveling, teaching, reading and exercising.

Salley family fun.
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] John Salley, a Fox Sports TV host and ex-NBA star, enjoys an outing with his favorite ladies, wife Natasha, and daughter Tyla, at the Los Angeles premiere of the hit new movie, Like Mike, starring rapper-actor Bow...

Melodious union.
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Newlywed singers Chante Moore and Kenny Lattimore kick back during a celebrity affair in Los Angeles. The two recently finished recording an album of duets. The project, slated for release in the fall on Arista, will...

Most gay black men with HIV unaware they have the virus, study finds. (Lifestyles).
August 5, 2002... A staggering number of African-American men who tested positive for HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, were unaware they were infected, according to a newly released study of young gay and bisexual men. Black men were the most likely to be...

MVP of All-Stars. (Sports).
August 5, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lisa Leslie shows off the WNBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player trophy afar the West defeated the East 81-76 at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. The Los Angeles Sparks center led the West, scoring 18 points and...

NBA star Allen Iverson and uncle are arraigned on charges in Philadelphia. (Sports).
August 5, 2002... After surrendering himself to local police, NBA superstar Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers was arraigned on gun and assault charges after he allegedly stormed into a cousin's apartment with a gun and threatened two men while looking for...

Forrest delivers Mosley's second career loss, retains Welterweight belt. (Sports).
August 5, 2002... It's no fluke. Welterweight boxer Vernon Forrest is worthy of his WBC championship belt. Forrest recently stunned "Sugar" Shane Mosley for the second time this year in a unanimous 12-round decision at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis...

Beautiful black women in sports. (Sports).
August 5, 2002... Today's beautiful Black women in professional sports exude talent and spirit. The beauty and grace they display in their respective sporting arenas oftentimes is matched by their appearance out of the sports spotlight. JET features some of the...

Bernie Mac, Dule Hill, Angela Bassett among black Emmy nominees. (Entertainment).
August 5, 2002... Comedian Bernie Mac's tough love humor brought him a coveted Emmy Award nomination for his first-year Fox TV comedy series "The Bernie Mac Show." Mac plays a married Los Angeles man struggling to deal with his sister's kids who have...

Nelly: hot rap star sounds off o being no. 1, his pop appeal and the role of an entertainer. (Cover Story).
August 5, 2002... When Nelly raps "I am No. 1," believe him. The popular rapper from St. Louis has been in the music industry for only two years, but in that time he has dropped two platinum-selling albums, performed at the Super Bowl, was named World's...

Top 20 albums.
August 5, 2002... 1. NELLY VILLE Nelly (Fo' Reel) 2. TRUTHFULLY SPEAKING Truth Hurts (Interscope) 3. ASHANTI Ashanti (Murder Inc.) 4. GOD'S FAVORITE N.R.O.E. (Def Jam) 5. COME HOME WITH ME Cam'ron (Roc-A-Fella) 6. HOOD RICH Big Tymers (Cash...

`Double Team'. (television).
August 5, 2002... Dennis Rodman and Jean Claude Van Damme star as an unlikely team with enough voltage to rock the free world in the action-espionage thriller Double Team, (Saturday, August 3 at 8 p.m., ET) on NBC. Others scheduled to appear this week include:...

Rainbow/PUSH: convention. (National Report).
August 12, 2002... * PLEDGES TO TEST ONE MILLION PEOPLE FOR AIDS * PLANS CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH * PAYS TRIBUTE TO BUSINESS LEADERS Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/ PUSH Coalition held its annual convention in Chicago and vowed to aggressively continue its...

Ticker tape.
August 12, 2002... Confidential: At the first Hill hearing on D.C. voting representation in Congress in 25 years, non-voting Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton cited the treatment of the city's 557,000 residents. No D.C. representative can vote in Congress and the...

National headliners.
August 12, 2002... Botswana beauty queen Brita Masalerthulini is spending the first two weeks of August traveling the country to recruit U.S. entries for the December Miss Malaika contest in Southern Africa... Next D.C. demonstration--August 22 when the National...

Twenty-eight million reasons to smile.
August 12, 2002... Samuel Rice of Chicago (l) and family members (l-r) daughter, Caroline Southall, and nephews Michael Rice and Tommy Lee Rice hold an oversized commemorative check for the $28 million he won in the Illinois Lottery's new multi-state Big Game...

Lifetime Achievement Award.
August 12, 2002... Dr. Arthur E. Thomas (3rd, l), president emeritus, Central State University (CSU), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Delta Zeta Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. during the 50th anniversary of the chapter at...

Sweet potato angel biscuits. (Recipe Of The Week).
August 12, 2002... Tasty Change For a tasty change from the ordinary, try making Sweet Potato Angel Biscuits, Angel Biscuits are unique, because they are a cross between a roll and a biscuit. SWEET POTATO ANGEL BISCUITS 3 packages active dry yeast...

This week in black history.
August 12, 2002... August 9, 1961-- * James Parsons, judge, lawyer and educator, became the first Black named to a federal District Court in the continental U.S. on this day. President John F. Kennedy appointed him a judge of the U.S. District Court for the...

Plans for first National Museum on Black History proceed in D.C. (Black History).
August 12, 2002... Plans for the first National Museum on Black History are set to be detailed in October following the recent first meeting of the museum's specially selected 22-member commission. Spearheaded by Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and J.C. Watts (R-OK)...

New position. (Education).
August 12, 2002... Dr. Sebetha Jenkins, president of Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, TX, has been named chair of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Presidents Council and will hold her first meeting in Jacksonville, FL, in October. The term will run for...

New Soft Sheen/Carson global headquarters. (Business).
August 12, 2002... During the recent unveiling ceremony of the new global headquarters of Soft Sheen-Carson (SSC) in Chicago, Johnson Publishing Co., Inc. President and CEO Linda Johnson Rice (2nd, 1) is greeted by (l-r) Joseph Campinell, president, L'Oreal...

Society world.
August 12, 2002... * Complete Package: Ekisha M. Harrid became the wife of Clinton J. Totten at the Lansdowne Worship Center in Baltimore. The bride, a graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, is an inclusion facilitator for the Baltimore County...

7-year-old Philadelphia girl escapes abduction; police capture suspects. (Law & Justice).
August 12, 2002... A 7-year-old Philadelphia girl, who was bound, blind-folded and locked in the decrepit basement of an abandoned house for nearly 24 hours, used wits and daring to escape kidnappers who held her for ransom. According to police it was dark...

Good news for Camden. (Newsmakers).
August 12, 2002... Camden, NJ, Mayor Gwendolyn A. Faison is overcome with joy at a news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton because New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey (r) signed a bill to rebuild the desperately poor city of Camden from the ground up with...

Baltimore legislator starts drive to discourage use of the word `nigger'. (Newsmakers).
August 12, 2002... A resolution that passed in the Baltimore City Council urges citizens to quit using the epithet "nigger" and asks lawmakers across the country to join in a similar nationwide effort. Backed by nine other council members, the resolution...

Former Congressman Mel Reynolds takes estranged wife's lover to court. (Newsmakers).
August 12, 2002... Former congressman Mel Reynolds plans to take his estranged wife's lover to court, blaming him for destroying any hopes of reconciling with his wife. Reynolds claims Cornell Hughes of Chicago broke up his marriage with Marisol and wants...

Musical love birds. (Mr. & Mrs).
August 12, 2002... Famed R&B crooner Will Downing and singer Audrey Wheeler are all aglow after they exchanged wedding vows during a private ceremony at Iandor Fine Arts Gallery in Newark, NJ. The reception was an all-star Old School music party with Freddie...

News conference wedding. (Mr. & Mrs).
August 12, 2002... Grambling State University football coach Doug Williams marries Lisa Judge in a ceremony conducted by Mike Phelan immediately following a news conference at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas to announce the Silver Dollar Classic between Grambling...

Singer Kelly Price renews vows with manager-husband, Jeffrey Rolle. (Mr. & Mrs).
August 12, 2002... R&B singer Kelly Price never got a fairy-tale wedding when she married Jeffrey Rolle 10 years ago. "I was seven months pregnant with my first child," Price, the mother of three, recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I was 19. It...

Living together doesn't guarantee marriage: study. (Mr. & Mrs).
August 12, 2002... Living together as a couple does not necessarily mean that once married you'll stay that way, according to a comprehensive new report on cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

`Q' in Austin power. (the week's best photos).
August 12, 2002... Legendary music icon Quincy Jones, nicknamed "Q," receives a hug from his girlfriend, Lisette, during the premiere of Austin Powers In Goldmember at the Universal Amphitheatre in Hollywood. Jones makes a special appearance in the comedy.

Beauty of the week.
August 12, 2002... KISHA VAUGHN is from Akron, OH. In her spare time enjoys swimming, reading, traveling and yoga

Movie premiere.
August 12, 2002... Famed singer Dionne Warwick joins her son, hit songwriter-producer Damon Elliott, and his wife, Tamani Elliott, at the Hollywood premiere of Austin Powers In Goldmember at Universal Amphitheatre. Elliott produced the movie's theme song, Hey...

Cool and unstoppable.
August 12, 2002... Actor Daryl "Chill" Mitchell holds his son, Justin, as his family attends the premiere of Chill's new movie, The Country Bears, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. Mitchell, who won fame on "Veronica's Closet" and "The John, Larroquette...

The Adventures of Pluto Nash: rated PG-13 Castle Rock Entertainment/Village. (Movies to see).
August 12, 2002... An action-comedy set on the moon the year 2087, Pluto Nash is an audacious nightclub owner who finds himself in hot water when he refuses to sell his club to the local mob. Joining Pluto in the danger and lunacy are Dina Lake a beautiful...

Franchise deal. (Sports).
August 12, 2002... Rookie Julius Peppers, a defensive end from North Carolina, holds up his new jersey after he was selected second overall by the Carolina Panthers during the 2002 NFL Draft. Peppers, expected to be the cornerstone of the Panthers' rebuilding...

Glenn Robinson arrested, released on domestic battery and weapons charges. (Sports).
August 12, 2002... Milwaukee Bucks forward Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson was recently released on $5,000 bail after he was arrested after allegedly shoving his former fiancee in her suburban Chicago home. Robinson, 29, was charged with misdemeanor counts of...

WNBA's Edna Campbell is winning her battle with cancer. (Sports).
August 12, 2002... Sacramento Monarchs guard Edna Campbell spent this WNBA season battling, but her pursuit was off of the court. Campbell, 33, was diagnosed with breast cancer last February, making her the first active WNBA player to be diagnosed with the...

Negro league pension plan. (Sports).
August 12, 2002... Negro League baseball players Bob Mitchell (r) and Willie Williams (l) attend a news conference with Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) in Tampa, FL. Nelson reported progress in efforts to persuade Major League Baseball to include more players from the...

Ozzie Smith walks yellow brick road into Baseball's Hall of Fame.
August 12, 2002... Ozzie Smith, the electrifying short-stop for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals during his 19-year career, shed a few tears during the ceremony where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Among a...

Hot fashion trends of summer. (Fashion).
August 12, 2002... Dig your retro gear out of the closet and get ready to heat things up as the mercury rises this August because everything old is new again! Summer fashion takes a trip in the way-back machine as designs from decades past make their way onto...

Disparities in labor, housing, civil rights persist despite major gains for Blacks, National Urban League report says. (Lifestyles).
August 12, 2002... Blacks have been hit harder by the recession, are twice as likely as Whites to have lower-paying jobs and "are still stuck in the pre-civil rights era when it comes to owning their homes," the National Urban League says in its annual report on...

Beyonce knowles: makes movie debut as secret agent in `Austin Powers in Goldmember'. (Cover Story).
August 12, 2002... Groovy superspy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) knows that he is the man, but he also knows that his life wouldn't be complete without a sexy woman. Beyonce Knowles, lead singer of the sizzling trio Destiny's Child, is Powers' main squeeze in...

Top 20 singles.
August 12, 2002... 1. HOT IN HERRE Nelly (Universal) 2. OH BOY Cam'ron (Roc-A-Fella) 3. RAINY DAYZ Mary J. Blige (MCA) 4. ADDICTIVE Truth Hurts (Interscope) 5. HALFCRAZY Musiq (Def Soul) 6. DOWN A ** CHICK Ja Rule (Murder Inc.) 7....

Special honor for a phenomenal woman. (Celebrities).
August 12, 2002... Actress, activist and humanitarian Cicely Tyson accepts her honorary doctorate in fine arts from University of Notre Dame President the Rev. Edward A. Malloy (1) and Patrick F. McCartan, chair of Notre Dame's board of trustees, during the...

`Celine Dion: A New Day Has Come'. (Television).
August 12, 2002... Destiny's Child and Brian McKnight perform with Celine Dion on her new entertainment special "Celine Dion: A New Day Has Come," (Friday August 9 at 10 p.m., ET) on CBS. Others scheduled to appear this week include: Gary Dourdan on "CSI:...

Harriet Elam-Thomas nears four decades in U.S. foreign service. (National Report).
August 19, 2002... One of the few African-American women in the State Department's Senior Foreign Service, Harriet Elam-Thomas has traveled around the world, rose from an international business student to an ambassador, and spent almost 40 years as a diplomat....

Warm presidential greetings.
August 19, 2002... President George W. Bush and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo greet guests during the recent black-tie gala honoring the late Rev. Leon H. Sullivan at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Sullivan died last year. He founded...

McDonald's picks Bill Lamar for top marketing job. (National Report).
August 19, 2002... Fast food giant McDonald's tapped one of their own for the company's top marketing position. Mike Roberts, president of McDonald's USA, announced the promotion of Bill Lamar to senior vice president in charge of McDonald's U.S. Marketing....

Ticker tape.
August 19, 2002... Confidential: When tennis champs Venus and Serena Williams arrive this fall in Senegal for their first African appearance, it will mark a breakthrough for another pair of American women who have insisted on the exposure for the outstanding...

National headliners.
August 19, 2002... Banned from the September Democratic primary because of massive forgeries on his nominating petition, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams has an uphill fight to retain control of City Hall. He must become a write-in candidate in the primary or run as...

Crimes against kids: tips to protect your child. (National Report).
August 19, 2002... Summertime--the proverbial rambunctious season of the child--has been nearly shipwrecked due to a string of highly publicized child abductions that have parents fearful of letting their children outside to play. There have been...

Comedian Wayne Brady will be first black to host the Miss America Pageant. (Celebrities).
August 19, 2002... Emmy-nominated entertainer Wayne Brady, best known for his comedic work on ABC's "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" was chosen to host this year's Miss America Pageant. While five Black women have worn the coveted crown, including singer-actress...

History-making homecoming queen. (Children).
August 19, 2002... Nakeitra L. Hill of Corinth, MS, the first Black Homecoming Queen in the history of Corinth High School, recently was honored by Corinth's local NAACP branch for making history at her school with her coronation. A scholar and active member of...

Police shootout kills kidnapper; California girls rescued. (Crime).
August 19, 2002... California police recently rescued two teenagers from a suspected kidnapper in dramatic fashion following a 12-hour ordeal that involved kidnapping, a police chase and a fatal gun battle. Authorities brought Jacqueline Marris and Tamara...

How to protect your skin while enjoying summertime fun and the sun. (Health).
August 19, 2002... Black skin doesn't burn, therefore Blacks have no need for suntan lotion. That's one of the biggest myths that Blacks believe when it comes to their skin and the sun. The truth is everyone, including Blacks, can burn, according to the American...

This week in Black history.
August 19, 2002... August 16, 1963-- Georg Olden, famed graphic artist, became the first Black to design a U.S. postage stamp, which was released on this day. The stamp commemorated the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation. It featured a severed link...

Thurgood Marshall stamp. (Black History).
August 19, 2002... Cecilia Marshall unveils a new commemorative postage stamp honoring her late husband, Thurgood Marshall, the first Black to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, at a ceremony in San Francisco during the 77th annual meeting of the National Bar...

Society world.
August 19, 2002... So Into You: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Andre Thomas united in holy matrimony at St. James AME Church in Chicago. The bride, Yulonda A. Jackson, is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a media planner at Mediaedge: CIA...

Sigma Gamma Rho celebrates 49th International Boule. (Newsmakers).
August 19, 2002... Helen J. Owens (1), International Grand Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., elected for a second term during its 49th International Boule at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, receives best wishes from Maxine Waters (c) (D-CA) and Waters'...