National Headliners

Jet, Dec 20, 1999

When Federal Judge Dean Whipple dismissed Kansas City's desegregation suit, he ended 22 years of conflict and $2 billion in costs. The judge said that the school district had done all it could do, leaving a record of more disadvantaged students still academically deficient ... Ten years ago, Detroit Rep.

John Conyers launched the funding of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Recently, he helped the institution to secure $250,000 for a jazz music education program ... The first Black woman President of Spelman College, Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, was awarded Smithsonian's McGovern Behavioral Science award.