National Headliners

Jet, Oct 22, 2001

Washington lawyer Weldon Latham and Black Caucus Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson were honored by Amtrak for their diversity leadership ... Second Black publisher of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal newspaper, James M. Crutchfield, wrote a column establishing a fund to provide a fire-truck for New York City after the terrorist attack ...

New president and CO0 of the 20 Year Enterprise Foundation, Terri V. Montague, took over a network of 1,900 community development corporations and 16 offices nation wide ... New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial, U.S. Conference of Mayors president, was two blocks from the White House during the terrorist attack. He was taken to the D.C. emergency command center to spend time with D.C. Mayor Tony Williams ... Officials of the U. S. and Chile held trade negotiations on the campus of Howard University, a first for a Black institution.