By Dan Jehl
On Nov. 17, the Fort Wayne Chapter of the NAACP elected its new leaders.
For president, it was the Rev. Bill McGill. For the officers, it was a “change slate” of candidates, showing the change theme as the winning one nationally and locally.
McGill’s selection was greeted with overwhelming community support. Breakfast talk at Link’s on Creighton included this comment:...
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By Alan King
Special to the NNPA from the
Afro-American Newspapers
WASHINGTON (NNPA)— Fourteen years ago, Kemba Smith was serving a 24-and-a-half-year sentence on charges of conspiracy, money laundering and lying to authorities to protect her boyfriend at the time—Peter Hall, leader of a violent drug ring that moved as much as $4 million in cocaine and crack cocaine...
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