National headliners

Jet, June 23, 2003

One of the country's few Black woman sheriffs, Andrea Cabral, scurried to the office of Sen. Ted Kennedy to announce that she had changed her party from GOP to Democrat. She was appointed six months ago by then Mass. Gov. Jane Swift ... Passed: Former Kennedy civil rights chief Burke Marshall, 80, and journalist Wallace Terry ...

Identifying Rep. Bobby Scott as a Harvard educated lawmaker, the Virginia-Pilot Newspaper editorialized that he was "among the loudest and most forthright critics of the current economic policy." ... Big-Name Dixie Wannabe Senator: Atlanta Businessman Herman Cain, head of a 600 pizza restaurant chain, who intimated that he may run for the Capitol Hill seat ... When the Theban Beneficial Club in Richmond, VA, celebrated its 100th anniversary with a black-tie affair, honored were three 50-year members--Milwood Motley, Hugh Fountain and Stafford Flowers.