National Headliners

Jet, Sept 3, 2001

Legislation to name the courthouse at 40 Centre Street in New York for Justice Thurgood Marshall was unanimously passed in the House by a voice vote ... New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial persuaded his city council to spend $273.5 million to expand the city's convention center named for his father, Mayor Ernest N.

(Dutch) Morial, the city's first Black mayor ... Unusual project of Zeta Phi Beta International President Barbara West Carpenter: to monitor and inform communities about the government's human genome project. She holds a national confab on the topic in Washington in November ... First Black to head Labor's statistics regional office, is Sheila Watkins, an 18year career employee, in Philadelphia ... Raising $273,318 to run for a Senate seat, Tenn. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. leads three other congressmen who also have ambitions to move up to the senior body in the nation's capital. Tenn. Sen. Fred Thompson has fueled speculation may retire.