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AN UNCOMMON HEIGHT
JUST TWO YEARS SHY OF BECOMING A CENTENARIAN, DR. DOROTHY IRENE HEIGHT DIED ON APRIL 20 OF NATURAL CAUSES LEAVING 6 MILLION WOMEN TO MOURN HER AND LEAVING A LEGACY THAT EQUALS THAT OF HER MENTOR, MARY McLEOD BETHUNE. DR. HEIGHT DEVOTED HER LIFE TO SERVICE, PRINCIPALLY IN THE WORK OF THE YWCA AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN. LIKE BETHUNE, SHE LED IN THE COMPANY OF GREATS LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING, THURGOOD MARSHALL AND OTHERS, BUT BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN, SHE WAS NEVER GIVEN THE SAME COVERAGE.SHE CAME TO THE INLAND EMPIRE MANY TIMES; SHE LOVED US AND WE RETURNED THE LOVE.HER FIRST VISIT WAS FOR THE FIRST BETHUNE RECOGNITION PROGRAM IN 1979 SPONSORED BY TWO SECTIONS: INLAND EMPIRE AND RIVERSIDE; BY 1990 THERE WERE SIX SECTIONS SPONSORING THE EVENT. DR. HEIGHT LOVED CHECKMATES, OUR FIRST YOUTH PROGRAM AND ASKED AS RECENTLY AS LAST DECEMBER FOR US TO WRITE UP THE MODEL SO SHE COULD SEE ABOUT STARTING A NEW MODEL.
WHEN THE INLAND EMPIRE SECTION WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF FIVE SITES ACROSS THE US TO LAUNCH A PILOT CALLED "CREATIVE CAREERS FOR YOUTH", DR HEIGHT WAS FETED IN THE HOME OF THEN SAN BERNARDINO MAYOR BOB HOLCOMB AND HIS WIFE PENNY. THE MAYOR WAS VERY PROUD THAT SAN BERNARDINO HAD BEEN SELECTED AND DR. HEIGHT WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE QUALITY OF WOMEN LEADING THE SECTION. OUR DIRECTOR OF THE MODEL PROGRAM WAS OUR CURRENT CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND NCNW MEMBER, WILMA AMINA CARTER, A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT DR. HEIGHT FOUND HERE. SHE EVEN REFERRED TO US AS "MY GIRLS". AFTER VISITING IN RIVERSIDE, MORENO VALLEY AND VICTORVILLE AND SHE SIMPLY FELL IN LOVE WITH OUR SUCCESSFUL BETHUNE YOUTH CENTER IN RIALTO.
DR. HEIGHT WAS THE FIRST BLACK SOCIAL WORKER IN NEW YORK AND AS DIRECTOR OF THE HARLEM BRANCH OF THE YWCA, SHE MET BOTH DR. BETHUNE WHO HOSTED THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NCNW THERE AND ASKED THE YOUNG DIRECTOR TO ESCORT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT INTO THE MEETING WHEN SHE ARRIVED AND DR. HEIGHT HAS BEEN "IN THE MEETING SINCE THEN, GIVING 40 YEARS AS PRESIDENT TO THE 75 YEAR OLD ORGANIZATION.
LOIS CARSON HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NCNW AND TRAVELED TO AFRICA TWICE WITH DR. HEIGHT, FIRST SENEGAL, TOGO AND WEST AFRICA IN 1980 AND LATER TO EGYPT AND OTHER PARTS OF NORTHERN AFRICA IN 1988. SHE WAS AT THE " SUMMIT OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT", WHICH WAS HELD IN GHANA WITH
DR. LEON SULLIVAN, FOUNDER OF OF OIC IN 2002.
ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE INLAND EMPIRE SECTION WILL DEEPLY MISS DR HEIGHT WHO WAS ACTIVE AND ON POINT ALWAYS, AND WE, THE WOMEN OF THE INLAND EMPIRE SECTION, WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE LOVE AFFAIR WE HAD WITH OUR LEADER, DR. DOROTHY IRENE HEIGHT.
First Lady Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first First Lady of the United States of African-American heritage.FROM WIKIPEDIA
Michelle Robinson was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago. She graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and accepted a position with the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center. Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University.
Michelle
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Soloing in Russia, First Lady
Speaks Little, and Yet Volumes,
MOSCOW
July 7 -- First lady Michelle Obama began her only day of solo appearances in
the Russian capital promising little more than a pantomime of handshakes and waves,
silent embraces and inscrutable smiles
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Cover of
March Edition of Vogue
In a bit of fashion news, First Lady Michelle Obama is featured on the cover of the March edition of Vogue. According to the BBC, Michelle is the second First Lady to be featured on the cover (which is usually reserved for models) since Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1998. The dress that Michelle is wearing was designed once again by Jason Wu, who also designed the memorable white gown that she wore during the inauguration balls.
Also enjoy this brief slideshow of the president and the First Lady at Vogue’s web site.