National headliners

Jet, Jan 26, 2004

Backers of U.S. presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton have submitted 12,520 signatures on a petition to Virginia's Board of Elections to qualify as the only Black presidential candidate in the Feb. 10th election. Failing to qualify was Chicago's ex-Sen. Carol Moseley Braun who will be a write-in candidate ...

Passed: Boston's famed Black arts school founder Elma Lewis, 82, Chicago's pioneering actress and singer Etta Moten Barnett, 102, and Baltimore's Geraldine Beatrice Hurt, widow of the late Morgan State football coach Edward Hurt and for more than 50 years known as Mom on the campus, 102.... Readying for the presidential campaign is Trenton, NJ, Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, the current president of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors.