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Barbara Jordan: 1st Black Woman from a Southern State to Serve in the House of Representatives

Posted on28. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

In 1972, Barbara Jordan was elected to serve in the Ninety-third Congress, becoming the first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas and the first African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the South. In 1976, Jordan was the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention at which she nominated President Jimmy Carter. She became the first African American to give a keynote speech at a major party’s political convention.

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[HBCU Presidents] Dr. David Hall: University of the Virgin Islands

Posted on26. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Dr. David Hall began his tenure as the fifth President of the University of the Virgin Islands on August 1, 2009. He has been awarded a Distinguished University Professorship of Spirituality and Professionalism at UVI.

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Anthony Foxx: Charlotte, NC's New Mayor

Posted on21. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Anthony Foxx is Mayor (D) of the City of Charlotte, NC. He began his political career in 2005 with his election to City Council as an At-Large representative and served two terms before being elected Mayor in 2009.

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David Drummond: Google's Chief Legal Officer

Posted on02. Dec, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

Dave Drummond is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and the Chief Legal Officer of Google, Inc. He initially joined Google in 2002 as VP of Corporate Development. Since then he has served as Senior VP of Corporate Development since January 2006 and as Chief Legal Officer since December 2006.

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Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama

Posted on09. Nov, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

Valerie Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is a lawyer and is senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration. She is also a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior to that she served as a co-chairperson of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.

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Khadijah Williams: From Homeless to Harvard

Posted on05. Nov, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

Khadijah Williams, 18, overcomes a lifetime in shelters and on skid row. Khadijah was in third grade when she first realized the power of test scores, placing in the 99th percentile on a state exam. Her teachers marked the 9-year-old as gifted, a special category that Khadijah, even at that early age, vowed to keep.
“I still remember that exact number,” Khadijah said. “It meant only 0.01 students tested better than I did.

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[HBCU_Presidents] The Honorable Hazel R. O'Leary: Fisk University

Posted on27. Oct, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

Hazel Reid O’Leary (born May 17, 1937) was selected as President of her undergraduate alma mater, Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (the 1st university in Nashville) in 2004. She was the seventh United States Secretary of Energy, from 1993 to 1997. As of 2009 she is the first and only woman and first and only African American to hold the position.

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Stephen L. Carter: Law Professor, Policy Writer, Columnist, Novelist

Posted on23. Oct, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

Stephen Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He has taught at Yale since 1982. Carter is known for his legal and social policy writings, which include Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, The Culture of Disbelief, and God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics.