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DeWayne Wickham of USA Today and Gannett News Service with Valerie Jarrett, co-chair of the transition team for President-elect Barack Obama, at the opening session of the Trotter Group's 2008 annual meeting.

"We ran a campaign of vision and hope and looking towards the future. And he is a pragmatist . . . That's the part of him that will make him an extraordinary president," she said.

The meeting took place a week after the nation elected its first African American president. In addition to Jarrett and others from the Obama campaign, speakers from Howard University, the Washington Post, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the National Urban League, the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the State Department and the Republican Party met with the group.

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Trotter Group Members Assess
2008 Presidential Campaign

Trotter Group members evaluate the 2008 presidential campaign, from its effect on local issues to its racial implications.

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2007 Conference in Philadelphia

Speakers included music mogul Kenny Gamble; Theodore M. Shaw, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; historian Charles L. Blockson; Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree; Yale Professor Elijah Anderson; Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa.; lawyer Michael Coard of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition; author Yvonne Latty; Kevin Merida, Donna Britt and Joe Davidson of the Washington Post and Bilal Qayyum of Men United for a Better Philadelphia.

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Sessions with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at August 2007 NABJ convention

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(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.

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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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Don Imus

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(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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2006 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.

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Remembering Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King
1927-2006

Trotter Group members remember a legend. Read the columns

20th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Trotter Group members weigh in on Dr. King's legacy on the 20th anniversary of the holiday. Read the columns

Remembering Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor
1940-2005

Trotter Group members on the passing of comedian Richard Pryor. Read the columns

2005 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

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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. Read the columns

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. Read the columns

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. Follow the discussion here.

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. Read the columns

C-Span coverage of Trotter Group members discussing what President Bush's second term means for African Americans and urban communities. Watch

Decision 2004

Follow opinion on the election and the aftermath by members of the Trotter Group. Read the columns

Trotter Group on Condoleezza Rice
See 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

Annual Meeting Headlines

Kaunda

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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