NAACP board approves three-year
contract for its new president
BALTIMORE (AP) - The NAACP's national board of direc
tors has approved a three-year contract for new president Ben
Jealous, the youngest leader in the ci\il
Jealous
rights organization s history.
The board voted 35-2, with one
abstention, to approve the contract
Saturday. Chairman Julian Bond says
the two dissenting votes were protesting
procedure, not 35-year-old Jealous.
The contract takes effect Sept 15.
Jealous is a former managing editor of
the Jackson Advocate newspaper in
Mississippi. He was elected to the
NAACP post in May, will attend his first
board meeting as president of the
National Association for the' '
Advancement of Colored People in Baltimore on Oct. 18.
Jealous takes over from interim President Dennis Hayes, who
has been leading the group since Bruce Gordon left in March 2007
after clashing with the. board
Harvard to review campus police
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Harvard University is review
ing its campus police department amid concerns officers have
unfairly stopped black people because of their race.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust announced the review
last week in a letter to administrators and faculty that also was
posted on the university's Web site.
Faust said a special six-member committee will be headed by
Boston attorney Ralph Martin, an African-American and fonfter
Suffolk County district attorney. It will study police diversity
training, community outreach and recruitment.
"All of us share an interest in sustaining constructive relations
between our campus police and the broader Harvard community
in order to provide a safe and welcoming environment for all fac
ulty, students, staff, and visitors," Faust said.
"I am confident that this group's efforts will help the
University address this important set of issues in a constructive
spirit and forthright manner," she said.
Faust cited an incident earlier this month when campus police
confronted a person using tools to remove a lock from a bicycle.
She said the person was a summer employee who owned the bike
and was trying to cut the lock because the key had broken. The
Boston Globe reported that the person, whom Faust did not iden
tify, was a black high school student from Boston.
The Globe said black students and faculty protested last year
after police interrupted a campus field day sponsored by two black
student groups, asking if they had a right to be there. The newspa
per said in 2004, police stopped a prominent black Harvard pro
fessor as he was walking to his office because they mistook him
I for a robbery suspect.
Ali, Farrakhan attend Chicago
memoriaJ for longtime manager
CHICAGO (AP) - Muhammad Ali and Nation of Islam
Minister Louis Farrakhan have paid respects to Ali's former man
ager and the son of a former minister of the Nation of Islam.
Detroit native Jabir Herbert Muhammad was remembered by
more than 200 people who crowded a banquet room Saturday on
Chicago's South Side. He died Monday at age 79 after heart sur
gery in Chicago. His father was Elijah Muhammad, who died in
1975.
The younger Muhammad managed Ali's boxing career from
1966 until 1981 and managed his post-fighting career until 1991 .
He went on to a career in business. Ali's wife Lonnie called
Muhammad a big brother to her husband.
Jameel Cook's attorney
claims racial profiling
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HOUSTON (AP) - Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright
denied an attorney's allegations that former Houston Texans full
back Jameel Cook was subjected to racial profiling when he was
arrested last week on a marijuana pos
session charge.
Attorney Chip Lewis had told
Houston television station KRIV on
Monday that Cook might have been a
victim of racial profiling and that Cook
said the drugs found in his car were not
his and he had no idea where they came
from.
"I think it was in his console under
his elbow," Wright told the television
station. "It would be hard for me to
accept he didn't know whose it was."
Cook, who played in all 16 games
for the Texans last year, was waived by
Jealous
the team.
The 29-year-old Cook, now free on a $500 bond, was arrested
on a misdemeanor charge after the deputy searched the car and
found a plastic bag containing two grams of marijuana.
Authorities said Cook had no valid Texas driver's license and no
proof of insurance.
"It raises the question of the fact that this may be a racial pro
filing situation, and I say this without knowing the deputy's back
ground," Lewis said "(Jameel) is a young African-American
driving a very nice Mercedes-Benz around the Sugar Land area, a
very nice neighborhood that he lives in. The deputy is Anglo."
Wright said the deputy who arrested Cook has an unblemished
record and is "a top guy and he's very cognizant of what's legal
and what is not."
Cook, who lives in the Houston suburb of Missouri City, was
pulled over for no front license plate and expired registration.
Lewis said Cook was not ticketed for those violations.
Cook joined the Texans in' 2006 after five seasons with the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted him in 2001 .
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Bikers roll into D.C. for
King Memorial fundraiser
BY NAFKESA SYEED
THE ASSOC IATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - More
than 3, (KM) motorcyclists from
around the country roared onto
the National Mall on Sunday
during a ride designed to raise
thousands of dollars for the
Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial.
The ride was dubbed the
"Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial Million
Motorcyclists Motorcade (M5
Project)." Bikers arrived from
starting points in Laurel, La
Plata and Fort Washington in
Maryland They also came from
Woodbridge, Va., all finally
*-jneeting off Ohio Drive, across
from the Tidal Basin site where
the memorial is planned.
Participants in black leather
vests with their biker aliases
patched on their backs paraded
on colorful bikes, ranging ftom
souped up vintage to sleek mod
ern models. They either collect
ed funds or contributed their
own money to total $70,000 in
donations, according to Howard
"Dirty Dealer" Clifton Jr. of
Waldorf, Md , whose group,
Bikers With Heart Foundation
Inc., helped organize the ride.
Many were moved by the
timing of the event, which was
just a few days after the 45th
anniversary of the March on
Washington, during which King
delivered his "I Have a Dream"
speech.
Thomas "T.C." Costley of
Fort Dix, N.J., attended King's
speech in 1963 and rolled into
the benefit ride with about 500
bikers from the National
Association of Buffalo Soldiers
and Troopers Motorcycle
See Bikers on A4
AP Pholo by Emily J Reynold*/ The Wa*hin?ton Examiner
Motorcyclists stand by one of their bikes Sunday on the National Mall.
Oprah's pledge to
students is $ 1 million
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP,
NJ. - Media mogul Oprah
winirey nas
pledged $1 million
to an educational
scholarship fund
for students in the
rural New Jersey
hometown of her
longtinjp boyfriend.
Winfrey was the
keynote speaker
Saturday at the
annual community
festival in
Whitesboro, a tiny
community found
ed in 1901 as a set
tlement for blacks leaving the
South. The event drew hun
dreds of area residents and
fans of the television show
host, who touched on many
topics during her talk but
focused on the importance of
education and how people can
use it to reach their goals, just
as she did.
"What is important is
access to learning. We used to
know that," Winfrey said. "It
used to mean getting straight
A's didn't mean you were try
ing to act white. It meant you
were trying to act right."
Near the end of her
speech, Winfrey noted that
her boyfriend, Stedman
Graham, had told her about
Whitesboro when they started
dating. He often spoke of how
he wanted the town to be all it
fcould be, and Winfrey said
Graham had worked to get
sidewalks, street lights, a
baseball field and a communi
ty center built in his home
town.
"I'm committed to help
him help this community,"
Winfrey told the crowd.
"Today, I'm contributing
$220,000 as my first install
ment in a $1 million plan for
the educational scholarship
fund of Whitesboro. Keep
dreaming, ladies and gentle
men, keep dreaming."
Edgar Robinson, the festi
val's master of ceremonies,
was thrilled by Winfrey's gen
erosity, noting that the schol
arship fund normally collects
about $15,000 a year,
"That's unbelievable," he
told The Press of Atlantic
City. "I guarantee we will
?
Winfrey
make it work for the stu
dents."
Winfrey drew many laughs
while speaking about her
early dates with
Graham and the
tabloid media's
fascination with
her weight, but
she turned seri
ous while urging
the crowd -
which greeted
her with
screams and
loud applause -
to support
Democratic
presidential
candidate
Barack Obama
She also stressed the
importance of hard work, but
also told the crowd that reli
gion could and should be
important in their lives.
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