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Jefferson Search Illegal
(A P) — The FBI violated the legislative business.
The raid was part o f a 16-month
C onstitution w hen agents raided
U.S. Rep. W illiam Jefferson's office international bribery investigation
last year and view ed legislative o f Jefferson, w ho allegedly ac­
docum ents in a corruption investi­ cepted $100,000 from a telecom ­
gation. a federal appeals court ruled munications businessman, $90,000
ofw hich was later
Friday.
re c o v e re d in a
Jefferson argued
f re e z e r in th e
that the first-of-its-
c o n g r e s s m a n 's
kind raid tram pled
W a s h in g to n
congressional inde­
home.
pendence.
The
Je ffe rso n
C o n stitu tio n p ro ­
p
le
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n ot
hibits the executive
guilty
in
June
to
branch from using
charges
o
f
solic­
its law enforcem ent
iting m ore than
pow ers to interfere
$500,000in bribes
with the lawm aking
w hile using his
process.
U .S. R ep. W illiam J e ffe rso n
office to broker
The U.S. Court o f
A ppeals for the D istrict o f C olum ­ business deals in Africa.
"W e are confident that as this
bia Circuit held that while the search
itself was constitutional. FBI agents case moves forward, and when all
crossed the line w hen they viewed o f the facts are known, we will pre­
every record in the office w ithout vail again and clear Congressman
giving Jefferson the chance to ar- Jefferson's name," defense attor-
gue that some docum ents involved ney Robert Trout said Friday.
The Portland Chapter of the L.I.N.K.S.
August 8, 2007
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Famed Civil Rights Lawyer Dies at 100
Had pride in
his black
heritage
(AP) —O liver W. H ill.a c iv il
rights law yer w ho was at the
front o f the legal effort that de­
segregated public schools, has
died at age 100 in Richmond, Va.
In 1954, Hill was part o f a
series o f lawsuits against racially
segregated public schools that
became the U.S. Supreme Court’s
landmark Brown v. Board o f
E d u c a tio n d e c is io n , w h ic h
changed A m erica’s society by
setting the foundation for inte­
grated education.
"H e was am ong the vanguard
in seeking equal opportunity for
all individuals, and he was stead­
fast in his com m itm ent to effect
change. He will be m issed,” said
L. Douglas W ilder, who in 1989
becam e the nation’s first elected
black governor and was a confi­
dant o f H ill’s.
In 1940, Hill won hisfirstcivil
Oliver W. Hill lived a full cen tu ry, m u c h o f it s p e n t a s a n a d v o c a te
fo r civil rights.
rights case in Virginia, one that re­
quired equal pay for black and while
teachers. Eight years later, he was
the first blackelected to Richm ond’s
City C ouncil since R econstruction.
A law suit argued by Hill in 1951
on b eh alf o f students protesting
deplorable conditions at their high
school for blacks in Farm ville be­
cam e one o f five cases decided un­
der Brown.
T hose battles to end the J i m Crow
era w ere dangerous ones for Hill
and other civil rights leaders. Hill
once received so many threats that
he and his wife, Berensenia, w ould
not allow their son to answ er the
telephone.
N or did his battle for civil rights
bring him wealth.
“W e got very few fees for any o f
this," he said in a 1992 interview in
The R ichm ond News Leader.
Hill neverlost sight o f the im por­
tance o f the 1954 court ru I i ng. Wi th-
out it, he said in an interview in the
Richm ond T im es-D ispatch this
year, “ I doubt (the Rev. M artin
Luther) King w ould have gotten
to first base.”
Hill was bom May 1,1907. While
his parents w orked. Hill stayed
with a fam ily that he says instilled
in him pride in his black heritage.
“C o n seq u en tly , from c h ild ­
hood I developed personal es­
teem and expected w hite folks to
treat m e like they did one another
in such settings,” Hill w rote in his
autobiography.
Later, his fam ily m oved to
W ashington, w here he graduated
from high school and graduated
second in his class from H ow ard
U niversity’s law school in 1933.
The top law graduate that year
w as h is frie n d T h u rg o o d
Marshall.
M arshall and Hill w ere part o f
the N A A C P Legal D efense and
Education Fund team that fought
the d eseg reg atio n case to the
Suprem e Court. They rem ained
close friends after M arshall be­
cam e the co u rt’s first black ju s ­
tice.
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Seeking the community s support in the
ongoing effort to provide local children
with much needed school supplies for the
upcoming school year.
Donation Drop Site:
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Oregon Bridges Inspected after Disaster
Oregon bridges are being in­
spected for im m inent dangers in
the wake o f last w eek’s deadly
collapse o f a freeway bridge across
the M ississippi River in M inne­
apolis, Minn.
The state is also undergoing a
$1.3 billion, 10-year state-funded
project to fix 365 state bridges found
in m ost need o f repair. M ore is
e a rm a rk e d to c h e c k c ity an d
county-ow ned bridges.
(A P) - A 19-year-old handy­
man for a Black M uslim splinter
group in O akland, Calif, has co n ­
fessed and will be charged with
m urder in the shooting death o f an
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ago with an expected life o f about
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He said m any o f the bridges with
problem s were built using a steel
and reinforced concrete system.
"The w ay we built bridges then
is not the way w e w ould build
bridges today," he said.
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( A P) — - B arack O b am a is now
o ffic ia lly h ot — he's on the co v e r
o f V ibe m agazine.
In a p ro file for the 14th an n iv er­
sary issue o f the m usic and lifestyle
g lo ssy , the D em o cratic p re sid e n ­
tial ca n d id a te clarifies his view s
on rap.
T h o u g h he had a h ig h -p ro file
m eeting w ith rap star L u d acris las,
fall, he w as also q u o ted in A pril as
say in g that rap p ers w ere "d e g ra d ­
ing th e ir sisters. T h at d o e sn 't in ­
spire m e."
O b am a to ld V ibe that he w as
m isquoted — he w as talking about
the c u ltu re as a w hole, not rap p ers
in p articu lar.
"I stand by exactly w hat I said,
w hich was that the degrading c o m ­
m ents about w omen that (radio host
Don) Imus said is language that we
hear not ju st on the radio, not ju s, in
m usic. W e o urselves perpetuate
that, and we all have to take respon­
sibility for that."
Bu, the Illin o is se n ato r also
d id n 't let rap p ers o ff the hook.
"T h ere's no doubt that h ip -h o p
cu ltu re m oves o u r yo u n g people
p o w erfu lly . A nd som e o f it is no,
ju s t a reflectio n o f reality ," he told
the m ag azin e. "It also cre ate s re ­
ality . I th in k th at if a ll o u r k id s see
is a g lo rifica tio n o f m aterialism
an d blin g and casu al sex and kids
are n ev er seeing th e m se lv es re ­
flected as h ittin g the b o o k s and
b eing resp o n sib le and d elay in g
g ra tific a tio n , then they are g e t­
ting an u n rea listic p ic tu re o f w hat
the w orld is like."
S till, O b am a seem ed u n w illin g
to use rau n ch y rap as a rally in g
cry in his c a m p a ig n : "M y p rio rity
as a U .S. se n ato r is d ea lin g w ith
D em o cra tic p re sid e n tia l h o p e fu l S e n . B a ra ck O bam a, D-lll, is th e
first p o litica l figure to g ra c e th e c o v e r o f Vibe m a g a zin e . (AP p h o to )
p o v erty and ed u catio n al o p p o r­
tu n ity and ad eq u ate h ealth care.
If I'm ig n o rin g those issues and
spen d in g all my tim e w orry in g
ab o u t rap lyrics, then I'm w asting
my tim e."
So why put a p o litician on the
co v e r o f a m ag azin e that had 50
C ent fro n tin g last m o n th 's issue?
"B ecause for the first tim e since
V IB E w as Iaunched in 1993, a p o -
litical figure has burst on the scene
and fired up yo u n g peo p le in a
m ajo r w a y ,” V ibe ed ito r in c h ie f
D anyel Sm ith said by e-m ail. "B e­
cau se reg a rd le ss o f w ho w ins the
elec tio n , the se n ato r w ill have
in sp ired m any new v o ters to the
p o lls. B ecause O b am a is frank,
b rillian t, v ib ran t, and no, cy n ical
— all th in g s that m ake him a p e r­
fect VI BE co v er."
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