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EEO Staff
Encourages Black Students to Consider DoD Job  OpportunitiesJACKSON, Miss. — Inside a small college gym, military officers dressed in neat, crisp uniforms with shiny medals and colorful ribbons extolled the benefits of military service. Saleem Baird, 21, a computer science and economics major at Tougaloo College here, wasn't buying into the message. more 
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It Black History Month or African-American History Month? WASHINGTON — Some people call February Black History Month. Others call it African-American History Month. That's not a problem, because the names are interchangeable, according to Barbara Dunn of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History in Silver Spring, Md. more |
Stamp
Lionizes Thurgood  Marshall,
Supreme Court Justice,
Civil Rights LawyerWASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is selling a stamp that lionizes an African American who is credited with ending legal segregation in the United States and who fought for minority equality in the armed forces. more  |
Cleckley:
Need
Special Time
to Celebrate Who We Are ARLINGTON, Va., — February is African-American History Month, but the tributes and testimonies actually begin about two weeks earlier, around Jan. 15, the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. more |
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Police
Chief Moose Speaks at
DoD's Annual King BreakfastWASHINGTON — Charles A. Moose told the audience at DoD's 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in the Pentagon that he probably wouldn't be the police chief of Montgomery County, Md., if not for King's work and sacrifices. more
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Sixth Grader
Follows Sister's  Footsteps,
Wins MLK Essay
Contest WASHINGTON — A year ago, Ronada D. Hewitt, 11, listened to her sister Samantha read her award- winning essay during DoD's Martin Luther King Jr. Pentagon breakfast. This year, Ronada stood at the podium reading her own award-winning essay. more |
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Nation, More Than 100 Countries Celebrate Martin Luther
King Holiday WASHINGTON — The nation will observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 20, 2003, but the Pentagon is getting an early start with a King breakfast on Jan. 16. more |
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Army
Guard Promotes 1st
Black Woman to Flag RankARLINGTON, Va., — Brig. Gen. Julia Jeter Cleckley vowed to make it possible for others to follow in her footsteps after becoming the first African- American woman to be promoted from full colonel to flag officer in the Army National Guard on Sept. 3. more |
Pioneering Tuskegee
Airman  Laid
to Rest in ArlingtonWASHINGTON — Friends, family, military and retired military members gathered today to pay tribute and to lay to rest an Air Force pioneer. more |
One
Moment in Time WASHINGTON
— I remember our meeting nearly 20 years ago as if it were yesterday.
The then — retired three-star had insisted that we meet at my
office, despite my deference and offer that we meet at a place convenient
to him. But my location was fine for him — next door to where
he regularly shopped at the commissary at then — Cameron Station,
Alexandria, Va. more
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Ships Named in Honor of African Americans WASHINGTON — It took more than 168 years after the Continental Congress authorized the first ship of a new Navy for the United Colonies on Oct. 13, 1775, before a ship was named for an African American. more |
Fort
Mose: A Diversified  PastWASHINGTON — The fabric of Col. Horace Tucker's uniform is much different from that worn by his Florida National Guard predecessor more than 260 years ago. But there is a common thread that binds him to the soldiers of the past, and particularly to one who served at an old Florida post, Fort Mose (pronounced mo-zay). more
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