National Headliners

Jet, April 17, 2000

JET'S Washington Bureau needs a reporter: Send your resume and clippings to 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 1301, Washington, D.C., 20006 ... Hundreds attended a National Portrait Gallery ceremony accepting a Fred Brown picture of GOPer Lionel Hampton who soon will take over the Black business reins in the George W.

Bush campaign ... AME Bishop Vinton B. Anderson expects thousands to attend his July 4 forum in Cincinnati, OH, to foster Black men's spirituality and develop a strategy for 2000 ... The Black Congress on Health, Law and Economics launched a drive for President Bill Clinton to award Baltimore's former Rep. Parren J. Mitchell a presidential medal of freedom ... Dr. C. Delores Tucker of the Bethune-DuBois Institute faced the issue charter schools by holding a discussion between N.Y. Rep. Major R. Owens and charter school backer Bob Smith.