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Jet, May 10, 1999 by Simeon Booker

Officials at America's historically Black colleges and universities were stunned when they learned that the African National Congress (ANC) and historic Ft. Hare University, South Africa's major civil rights warriors, will turn over official documents of the antiapartheid struggle to the University of Connecticut ...

Selected as the only Black on the crucial House visit to Kosovo to survey refugee camps was New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne, a member of the House International Relations Committee ... Entertainers Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, after snaring the Hubert Humphrey Award for their lifelong activities, will share the limelight at the May 11 dinner of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights ... During the early organizing, Black women already have begun to outpace their men in filling the top policy roles on the Democratic campaign staff. Highest-ranked Black for the 2000 presidential election is Donna Brazill, chief of staff for D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was named deputy campaign manager and national political director on the staff of Vice President Al Gore. She has been in key roles for the past three elections. Carlotta Stone, formerly the staff director for Calif. Rep. Barbara Lee, was picked the new Democratic chief of politics. Yolanda Caraway, a longtime veteran, was named the "transition" chair of the national committee by Chairman Joe Andrew. Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, the main Black fund-raiser, will cosponsor the June 10 Democratic African-American gala to honor President Bill Clinton ... The seventh grandchild for Dr. Leon Sullivan is expected to arrive next fall. His daughter, Hope Sullivan Rose, the wife of a Phoenix, AZ, restaurateur, is OIC's director of governmental relations and legal counsel for the coming African summit.