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Articles in Jan 11, 1993 issue of Jet

• New sheriff - Jackie Barrett of Fulton County, Georgia becomes first African American female sheriff in U.S - Brief Article
• Gen. Powell honored - General Colin L. Powell receives honorary doctoral degree from Yeshiva University - Brief Article
• Experts' book tells how to help black children cope with racism and succeed - 'Raising Black Children' by James P. Comer and Alvin F. Poussaint
  by Trudy S. Moore
• Lee blasts 'Malcolm X' box-office ticket mix-up - filmmaker Spike Lee
• La Toya leaves Vegas show over a contract dispute - La Toya Jackson
• Ben Johnson, former sprinter, dies at 78 - obituary - Brief Article
• Mike Tyson's program gives turkeys to needy
• Clara Hale dies; cared for 1,000 drug-addicted babies - Obituary
• Clinton picks record number of blacks foe his cabinet - president-elect Bill Clinton
• Boycott of Americus, Ga. stores continues after city KOs naming street for King - city government's refusal to name highway after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - Brief Article
• Homeless man lands job after meeting Bill Clinton - Benjamin Edwards of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Brief Article
• Wife of rights commission chair Arthur Fletcher seeks duty and dad in Somalia - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Ayesha Bernyce Hassan-Fletcher
• Nation's only black HUD regional officer fought bureaucracy - and won - Gertrude W. Jordan, Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Minority directors scarce in corporate boardrooms - study of 801 Fortune 1,000 companies - Brief Article
• Baker tabbed as manager of San Francisco Giants - Dusty Baker
• John Lucas straps on Spurs head coach job - San Antonio Spurs - Brief Article
• Arco to invest $1 mil. in Calif.'s only black bank - Atlantic Richfield Co., Founders National Bank of Los Angeles - Brief Article
• Education program to help ghetto kids needs overhaul - $6.2 billion Chapter 1 compensatory program of the Education Department - Brief Article
• Yahweh acquitted in Miami of first-degree murder charge - religious sect leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh
• TSU prexy axes band after shoplifting scandal during trip to Japan - William H. Harris, president of Texas Southern University
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• Bowe loses WBC belt, Lewis named champion - Riddick Bowe; World Boxing Council; Lennox Lewis
• Arthur Ashe says Magic should not have quit - Magic Johnson
• Minorities headed for majority status by 2050 - projected minority population - Brief Article
• Eunice Wilder, ex-wife of Va. Gov., named new city treasurer of Richmond, Va - Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder - Brief Article
• Edelman fosters health, education for kids in '93 - Children's Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman outlines 1993 agenda - Brief Article
• Central State captures second NAIA grid title - Central State University Mauraders football team; National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - Brief Article
• Jenkins hit with deaths of girlfriend, daughter - Cincinnati Reds pitching coach Ferguson Jenkins - Brief Article
• Blues star Albert King dies after heart attack - Obituary
• Vanity tells why she gave up sexy image and became born-again Christian - Cover Story
  by Aldore Collier