A2 January 3, 2009 - January 9, 2009, The Washington Afro-American
In The News
Obamas Hit by Power Loss in Hawaii
White House, an expansive organizations in crises; and
132-room mansion with a allowed his church to be the
$13-million-plus budget first church in the District
The Hawaiian island
and staff of more than 90 to host a monthly food
of Oahu lost power Dec.
people. Appointed to the supplement program, which
26 during heavy rain and
position in 2007 by President continues today.
lightning, blacking out the
Bush, Rochon administers
population of some 800,000
the building’s operations,
people and thousands
maintenance and utilities
Black College
of tourists, including
and ensures the execution
vacationing President-elect
of ceremonial events of the News Briefs
Barack Obama and his
president and first lady.
family.
A Louisiana native and
Gov. Linda Lingle said
graduate of Xavier University
Morris Brown Rally
Hawaiian Electric Co.
and the National Defense
Raises $60,000 to
was taking an emergency
University, Rochon has
generator to the Obama
earned the Coast Guard
Pay Water Bill
compound on the east side of
Distinguished Medal and
Morris Brown College
the island where Obama has
three Legion of Merit medals.
officials raised $60,000
been staying.
Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy
during a four-hour rally Dec.
Honolulu Mayor Mufi
27 to help pay a massive
Hannemann told KSSK radio
AP Photo
Detroit Court to
Fauntroy, pastor of New
water bill that is threatening
that Obama said he was fine
President-elect Barack
Pay $424,000 to
Bethel Baptist Church in
to shutter the embattled
and planned to go to bed and
Obama arrives to play
White Employee
Washington, D.C., a former
institution.
sleep through the blackout,
golf in Kailua, Hawaii, According to the
The Honolulu Advertiser
Dec. 21, a few days
Denied Promotion
congressman and longtime
associate of Dr. Martin Luther
Associated Press, the city
reported on its Web site.
before the nearby island
King Jr., will be honored
of Atlanta turned off the
Power was restored early
of Oahu, where the
Detroit’s 36th District
at events celebrating his 50
school’s water on Dec. 15
Dec. 27, about the same time
Obamas are vacationing,
Court must pay a longtime
years of service as a pastor
because the historically
as that of Obama’s neighbors.
lost power.
White employee $424,000
and his retirement.
Black institution owes
because he was repeatedly
Special events, including
$380,000.
denied promotions in favor of
prayer and praise services and
Unless the bill is paid
Black applicants.
Report: Chicago
The newspaper noted that
a gala banquet will be held
in full, the school will not
The Michigan Supreme
for Fauntroy throughout the
reopen when classes are
Most Segregated
people tend to select a place
Court on Dec. 26 let stand
to live where their own color
month, culminating with his
scheduled to resume on Jan.
Big City
a jury’s discrimination
has a large presence.
farewell worship service at
9.
verdict for Kenneth Sciotti in
New Bethel Jan. 18.
School officials say they
2005. Sciotti said that in the
After analyzing 2008
will continue to hold rallies
Rear Adm. to
Fauntroy was elected
departments he applied to, all
population estimates, the
to Congress in l971,
and other events until they
but one of the supervisors was
Chicago Tribune found that
Provide Comfort, becoming the District’s first
have raised the full amount.
Black and all nine supervisory
Blacks in Chicago are the
Care for Obama
representative in 100 years;
Morris Brown Acting
jobs he applied to in a four-
most isolated racial group in
he served for 20 years.
President Stanley Pritchett
year period were filled by
the nation’s 20 largest cities.
Family
Fauntroy’s association
said he is appealing to
Blacks.
The Tribune report
Retired Rear Admiral
with King and his own zeal
Atlanta-based celebrities to
Sciotti, who started at the
points to racial patterns that
Stephen W. Rochon, formerly
for social activism catapulted
donate money to the school.
court in 1979, said he was
took root more than 100
with the United States Coast
him into the national and
Morris Brown is
passed over for less-qualified
years ago in the city. It says
Guard, will be one of the first
international social gospel
rebounding from an
applicants.
discriminatory practices
people to greet the Obama
arena. Retiring from the
embezzlement scandal that
The district court also
helped spawn segregation.
family when they arrive at
church of his childhood,
brought it to the brink of
has to pay Sciotti at least
With income differences
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in
Fauntroy built low-income
extinction a few years ago.
$151,000 in attorney fees and
and personal tastes further
January. Rochon is director
housing surrounding the
costs. Hampton Univ. to
perpetuating segregation, the
of the executive residence
churches; established a
report said that more than
and chief usher of the White
daily after-school program Study Darker Skin
80 percent of the Black or
House, according to USBE
Minister, Civil that feeds neighborhood
Disorders
White population would need
Magazine.
Rights Leader
children; worked to provide
Hampton University
to change neighborhoods in
He is the first African
employment opportunities
plans to open a new research
Chicago to truly integrate the
American to hold the position.
Rear Adm. Stephen
Retires
for ex-offenders; assisted
center next year that will
city.
Rochon manages the
Rochon (Ret.) countless families and
day-to-day operations of the
The Rev. Walter E.
focus on skin disorders
affecting Blacks, Asians,
Hispanics, Native Americans
and other ethnic groups.
The Skin of Color
Research Institute will be
located in a 20,000-square-
foot research center under
construction on campus,
according to the Associated
Press.
The institute says there
is little data on the structural
or functional differences in
skin disorders that are more
common among people with
darker skin tones.
Historically
Black Colleges
in Inauguration
Debate Series
Fayetteville State
University in North Carolina
and Voorhees College,
one of South Carolina’s
historically Black colleges,
will participate in a debate
series as part of the events
surrounding President-
elect Barack Obama’s
inauguration next month.
Voorhees and Fayetteville
will take part in the Jan. 19
event at the Smithsonian
Institute. The other schools
participating in the event
include Wake Forest
University, Michigan State
University, the University
of Southern California and
Mary Washington University.
Voorhees College and
Fayetteville State University
are part of a three-year
White House initiative to
reconstruct speech and
debate teams at historically
Black colleges and
universities.
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