National headliners

Jet, March 17, 2003

The Black Caucus plans four presidential debates this year in four cities, including Detroit, Los Angeles, and Jackson, MS. The debates are being organized by Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the mother of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ... Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton asked restoration of the D.C.

home of historian Carter G. Woodson, the sponsor of the Black History Month celebration, while the National Park Service heads said that $2 million is needed to preserve the Frederick Douglass home site in the nation's capital ... Alma Matilta Walters, the matriarch of a six generation St. Kitts (BWA) family, was saluted in the Congressional Record by NY Rep. Edolphus Towns for reaching the age of 100. She emigrated to the U.S. in her early teens.