National headliners

Jet, Nov 3, 2003

As one of the presidential campaigns with the least financial input, N.Y. cleric Al Sharpton's political effort got a big boost and applause when he picked up the check at one of his events at a D.C. restaurant ... The National Gallery of Art's first show of a Black artist, Romare Bearden, extends to January ...

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson is being reconsidered for a second term by the Senate Banking Committee ... Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglass Wilder, the nation's first elected Black governor, moved to quell a dispute over whether Richmond should elect its mayor instead of having the city council choose him. Wilder urged the election of the mayor in the predominantly Black city ... Even though he played a role in a recent HBO flick, Tenn. Rep. Harold Ford has no plan to leave Congress to seek movie stardom.