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Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich has signed a bill renaming the
Baltimore-Washington Airport after the late Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist on the
nation's highest court. Beginning October 1, it will be
known as the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Funeral services held last week in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
for Helen Wilkins Claytor, 98, who pioneered in integrating
the YMCA across the nation, serving as the national president
for 1967 to 1976. Among her survivors is Roger Wilkins, a
professor at George Mason University ...
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Leave it open to Oprah. Last weekend she personally paid for
and hosted a super gala
weekend for her personal heroes, some 25 Black women with a weekend of lavish festivities
in Santa Barbara, Calif., that began and ended at her Montcito estate, with local resorts tied
in. Among the surprised and happy guests were Maya Angelou, Coretta Scott King, Tina
Turner, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Roberta Flack, Ruby Dee, Della Reese, Diahann Carroll,
Diana Ross, Halle Berry, Alicia Keys, Dionne Warwick, Angela Bassett,
Cicely Tyson, and Alfre Woodard ...
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World Wide Technology, a systems-integration company based in Mo.,
according to the June issue of Black Enterprise, had 2004 revenues
of $1.4- billion. Other firms breaking the one billion mark include
Detroit-based Prestige Automotive, TLC Beatrice and CAMAC International . . .
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Mexican President Vicente Fox reversed his course and apologized this week
for his racist remark that 'Mexicans in the United States do the work that
Blacks won't do,' after talking with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al
Sharpton, also agreeing to arrange a tour for the two with other Black
leaders to Mexico later this year . . .
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Former NAACP proxy Kweisi Mfume highlighted his Senate campaign telling
all of his crime and poverty background when he addressed 2,900 graduating
students at Howard University last weekend. Later he threw himself into one
of Maryland's hottest issues, supporting slots at Pimlico Racetrack. . . .
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