Sen. Barack Obama claimed his 30th win with the Mississippi Democratic primary on Tuesday, adding to his delegate lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton in the last contest before the Pennsylvania primary, which will offer 188 delegates on April 22.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has narrowed the list of finalists to lead the organization to three: Benjamin Todd Jealous, 35, president of the Rosenberg Foundation; Frederick D. Haynes III, 47, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and Alvin Brown, 37, a former White House official currently working on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Former president Bruce Gordon resigned March 4, 2007, after just 19 months on the job. He cited a long-running disagreement with the group’s 64-member board over how to steward the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization as his reason for leaving.
The NAACP board is scheduled to fill the position at its next meeting in May.
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Sen. Barack Obama, the first black candidate seen as having a viable chance of being elected president, is also enjoying another first. Rolling Stone endorsed the presidential hopeful last week marking the first time the magazine has made an endorsement for a candidate during the primaries.
“Politicians with gifts like Obama’s are so rare that it’s imperative for each of us to do our part,” Rolling Stone editors write.
Obama covers the March 20 issue, which hit stands on Friday, and the website also features a photo history of Obama from his childhood years to the national stage.
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Sen. Barack Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucus with 68 percent of the vote for his thirteenth win on Saturday.
Obama thanked “all of the people of Wyoming who braved long lines and cold weather to stand for change,” on his website.
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Sen. Barack Obama raised a record $55 million in February. So far, his presidential campaign has earned a total of $193 million, but, in an e-mail sent Thursday, “more important than the total is how we did it.”
“No campaign has ever raised this much in a single month in the history of presidential primaries…More than 90% of donations were $100 or less, and more than 385,000 new donors in February pushed us past our goal of more than 1,000,000 people owning a piece of this campaign. [Read more of the e-mail]
Everyone is familiar with Rosa Parks. However, nine months before Parks became famous for refusing to obey a bus driver’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, 15 year-old Claudette Colvin (1939-), was arrested for the same offense in Montgomery, AL.
Sen. Hillary Clinton defeated Sen. Barack Obama Tuesday in the Ohio and Texas primaries, ending his winning streak and allowing her to continue in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton also won Rhode Island; Obama won in Vermont. However, as we mentioned last month, Ohio and Texas were what she really needed.
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