National Headliners

Jet, June 26, 2000

Former Jackson County prosecutor Gregory B. Gillis was named the first Black Drug Court Commissioner in Kansas City, MO.... Michigan auto dealer William Perkins was elected president of the GM Minority Dealers Association ... After the Ku Klux Klan "adopted a mile stretch of Missouri's Interstate 55 highway, agreeing to pick up and remove trash," state legislator William Lacy Clay sponsored an amendment to the appropriations bill to honor civil rights heroine Rosa Parks.

Clay hopes to succeed his father in Congress ... Retired Gen. Colin Powell is being speculated as the next Secretary of State and Condoleeza Rice as national security director if Texas Gov. George W. Bush is elected the next president.