WOW! Can I hang w/ you Tony??? How did you manage to meet all these people? Are you in the Young Dems or something?
Maybe you could help a sista find a job or something..lol..
I also met Rev. Butts yearsss ago before he realllly blew up at a MLK Breakfast w/ my Dad in Harlem, wow like 12-15 years ago now? gheesh I am getting up there!
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Originally posted by TonyB06
Because I work on a college campus (lots of speaker series and lecture series, etc...) I've been fortunate to meet a lot of newsmakers.
President Clinton (coolest white dude on the planet. period)
President Ford (this guy is not young)
George F. Will (columnist) (kinda kept to himself.)
Jacob Lawrence (artist.) (Regret I'm wasn't up enough on Black art to truly appreciate his talent when he was here)
Bro. John Hope Franklin (Historian) (along with Clinton, truly a highlight for me. The bruhs hosted a nice reception for him.)
60 Minutes' Ed Bradley (the word cool was invented for dude)
Rev. Calvin O. Butts (Kappa)
Rev. Joseph Lowrery (SCLC)
Rev. Al Sharpton
Linda Chavez (fmr. Sect. of Labor)
Sam Donaldson (ABC News)
Cokie Roberts (ABC News)
Pierre Salinger (JFK Press Secretary)
Martin Luther King III
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