10-17-2002, 12:47 PM | #1 |
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Clinton to Enter Black Hall of Fame
Oct. 17, 2002 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ Bill Clinton, once famously described by author Toni Morrison as "our first black president," is being inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame as an honorary member. The former president will be the first non-black recognized in the hall's 10-year history. He is expected to attend the Saturday night event. "It is this community's way of saying thank you to him for the work that he has done," Charles Stewart, the hall's chairman and founder. The honor is in recognition of Clinton's appointment of blacks to high levels in both state and federal government, and his post-White House efforts to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, Stewart said. Among others slated for induction are R&B and gospel singer Al Green and Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first black graduate of the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Past inductees include poet Maya Angelou, Ebony and Jet magazine publisher John H. Johnson Jr. and former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders.
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10-17-2002, 01:40 PM | #2 |
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Alright having a president in the Black Hall of Fame isn't all that wierd, but why Clinton??? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] Not FDR, not JFK, Clinton... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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10-17-2002, 01:54 PM | #3 |
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Hey, I don't make the rules, I just report 'em!!
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10-17-2002, 01:57 PM | #4 |
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Like the article says, it all began with Toni Morrison's essay in The New Yorker. She said, boiling it down a lot, that he was sensuous, exasperating, hard to handle, insinuating, and sexually promiscuous, in other words, according to her, just like a black man. And he plays the sax, too.
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10-17-2002, 06:52 PM | #10 |
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Well judging from the people who are already in it, it doesn't mean much.
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