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Sessions with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at August 2007 NABJ convention
(Above) Sen. Hillary Clinton meets with C.B. Hanif, editorial columnist and ombudsman at the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, center, Robin Washington, editorial page editor of the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune, right, and other members of the Trotter Group.
Credit: Julia Cheng
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(Above) Barack Obama, left, at Trotter Group meeting with Tonyaa Weathersbee of the Florida Times-Union and Les Payne of Newsday.
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Credit: Rutgers University
(Above) Vivian Stringer, coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team, responds to radio host Don Imus' racist and sexist comments at an April 10 news conference.
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Oakland mayor-elect Ron Dellums at opening session of 2006 Trotter Group conference. Read the columns
Other speakers were Abbas Milani, director of Stanford's Iranian Studies Program; Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Institute at Stanford; Joe Marshall of the Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers; Amy Cheney of the Write to Read Program; Gerald F. Uelmen of the Northern California Innocence Project and John Capitman, director of the Fresno State Health Institute, who discussed black-white health-care disparities.
Video of Trotter session on the election, featuring
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Coretta Scott King
1927-2006
Trotter Group members remember a legend.
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Trotter Group members weigh in on Dr. King's legacy
on the 20th anniversary of the holiday. Read the
columns
Richard
Pryor
1940-2005
Trotter Group members on the passing
of comedian Richard Pryor.
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Annual Meeting
Members of the Trotter Group recently met with
newsmakers in Nashville, Tenn. Don't miss their thoughts on the
annual confab. Columns
Remembering
Rosa Parks
Hurricane Katrina
Revisit Trotter Group members' thoughts on the fallout after
Hurricane Katrina. Columns
 Commentary
on the life and legacy of publisher John H. Johnson.
Columns
Read what Trotter Group members have to say about
the Senate's recent apology for failing to combat lynching and the
verdict in the murder trial of a former Klansman accused of killing
three civil rights workers in 1964.
Columns
 Trotter
Group members sound off on the Michael Jackson verdict.
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 In
Memoriam
Norman Lockman
 Pope's
Passing
Trotter Group members weigh in on John
Paul II's legacy. Read the columns
 Remembering
Johnnie Cochran
Thoughts by Trotter Group members on the controversial lawyer.
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 Armstrong Williams Controversy:
Trotter Group members weigh in the news that the Education Department
paid the commentator $240,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Annual Meeting
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| Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint makes a
point in an address to the Trotter Group in Cambridge, Mass. |
Trotter Group members met with newsmakers in Boston.
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 C-Span
coverage of Trotter Group members discussing what President Bush's
second term means for African Americans and urban communities.
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Decision 2004
Follow opinion on the election and the
aftermath by members of the Trotter Group.
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the columns
Trotter
Group on Condoleezza Rice
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what Trotter Group members have to say about National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the Sept. 11 commission.
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From the Archive: Trotter Group Meets with Rice
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| Kaunda |
Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, the Urban League's new
President Marc Morial, leaders of Fisk and Tennessee State
universities, discussions about the disproportionate deaths of African
Americans from cancer and the 20th anniversary of the invasion of
Grenada topped the agenda at the Trotter Group's 2003 annual meeting.
Read what Trotter Group members wrote
about these topics.
Affirmative
Action
Read what Trotter Group members said about the Supreme Court ruling on the
University of Michigan.
Blair Case
Spurs Debate on Diversity
It didn't take long for the race card to surface following the
revelation that former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair fabricated
stories. Here's what Trotter Group members
had to say about the debate.
Commentaries on the War
African American columnists across the nation
weigh in on Iraq. More
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