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 Cambridge makes history
Racial strife in the past, city picks first African-American mayor
By Chris Guy | Sun reporter
July 10, 2008
CAMBRIDGE - This Eastern Shore city has elected its first African-American mayor, four decades after images of an angry clash here between black protesters and white police played across the nation's television screens.
Victoria Jackson-Stanley, deputy director of the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, said her victory over two-term incumbent Cleveland Rippons left her humbled at breaking racial and gender barriers.
"As a woman and an African-American, I'm overwhelmed," said Jackson-Stanley, 54. "I think it shows just how much things have changed in Cambridge since the 1960s."
Jackson-Stanley's victory in Tuesday's election was confirmed yesterday after officials counted hundreds of absentee ballots.
The city of roughly 11,000 people, known for its seafood, historic buildings and views of the Choptank River, is just slightly more than 50 percent black.
"From what I understand it, many of her voters crossed racial lines," said Carl Snowden, director of Maryland's Office of Civil Rights.
"This election is an important signal that the Eastern Shore has changed," he said. "Cambridge is at a crossroads."
It was a tumultuous time nationally when, in 1967, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, gave a speech here that led to an outburst of protest that white authorities characterized as a riot.
The clash between black residents and white police officers was for years the main thing many outsiders knew about Cambridge.
"I was a very young teenager then, and no one who was there will forget," Jackson-Stanley said.
In recent years, town leaders have been working to revitalize the downtown, which like many small Shore towns has been struggling.
Cambridge officials have approved nearly a dozen projects aimed at revitalizing the once-vibrant manufacturing and canning center. The town has many new residents who have moved here from the Baltimore and Washington areas to restore Victorian-era homes in the city's West End.
Developers have begun restoring a mix of residential buildings, along with commercial ventures that have revamped signature department stores.
The effort suffered a setback when two turn-of-the-century brick storefronts were destroyed by fire in January, but town leaders have said they will go forward with the help of state aid.
Yesterday's final tally showed that Jackson-Stanley won the nonpartisan election 1,383 to 1,231.
A social worker for more than 30 years, the wife, mother and grandmother said she will remain in her state job and run the city as a part-time mayor, collecting $12,000 a year for a post that is designed to be part-time.
She said during the campaign that the city should hire "competent department heads" to run the day to day affairs of the city.
Rippons, a two-time mayor who clashed frequently with city employees and slow-growth advocates, said race became an issue in the mayoral campaign.
"This city is split almost evenly - of course race was a part of it," said Rippons, also 54. "Either consciously or unconsciously, race is an issue every day."
But town Councilman Gibert Cephas, who lost his bid for a second term, said race was of little interest to many voters who supported Jackson-Stanley. "Rippons has led with an iron fist for eight years, and that attitude was what voters have rejected," Cephas said.
Rippons upset many downtown preservationists when he pushed for Cambridge to annex farmland outside town to allow the development of a huge resort community near the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.
The project was eventually scaled back significantly in the wake of protests statewide from environmentalists.
chris.guy@baltsun.com
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Prep stars take field for a history lesson
By Matt Lynch | Chicago Tribune reporter
Seventy-five years after the old Comiskey Park played host to the first Negro League East-West All-Star Game, the home of the White Sox will house the debut for another event celebrating African-Americans in baseball.
The first Double Duty Classic will take place Monday at U.S. Cellular Field and feature inner-city high school players from Chicago and other Midwestern cities. The event is named for famous Negro leagues player Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, who died in 2005.
"It's an honor because it's the first time they're doing something like this, and it's to honor people like Ted Radcliffe, who played the game for so long and gave us opportunities," said Frank Gowder of Young, who will be part of the White Sox Amateur City Elite team.
The players will also attend a forum about the history of the Negro leagues and African-Americans in baseball. The forum will include Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson, as well as White Sox general manager Ken Williams, outfielder Jermaine Dye, first-base coach Harold Baines and several Negro leagues historians.
Jonathan Dorsey of Simeon said he hoped to retain as much as possible from the forum.
"I'm really interested in learning more about my race and more about the sport that I love," he said. "I hope I can just be a sponge and absorb everything."
Several players noted that some of their peers view baseball as too slow and prefer the instant gratification and higher scoring in sports like basketball and football.
"Guys who say baseball is boring just don't know what they're missing," Dorsey said. "It's such a rewarding sport once you put everything into it."
mlynch@tribune.com
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Jun 26, '08 5:13 AM
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While the fashion runways in New York City are usually as diverse as a Junior League meeting in Scarsdale, there is always some diversity at fashion week in Milan. Supermodel slash reality television host Tyson Beckford was the main attraction at DSquared2's Tuesday showing of the Spring/Summer 2009 menswear collection. Obviously, the collection was inspired by the 1980s boogie down Bronx fashion of LL Cool J and Run DMC. Not sure is that your cup of tea or is the retro b-boy look too 2002ish.
DSquared's s/s 2009 show had plenty of flava. In addition to Tyson Beckford, the talented models Will Lemay, Anthony Gallo and Andre Douglas were also spotted strutting their stuff for the Canadian identical twin designers Dean and Dan Caten. More models and much more skin after the jump.
The swimwear is Rihanna video hunk Anthony Gallo, represented by Vision Model Management. In February, Tyson Beckford headlined the amazing all black male Sean John show that capped Fashion Week.
     
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_el_pr/black_conservatives_ob...Black conservative talk show host Armstrong Williams has never voted for a Democrat for president. That could change this year with Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's nominee.
J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who once was part of the GOP House leadership, said he's thinking of voting for Obama.
Likewise, retired Gen. Colin Powell, who became the country's first black secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said both candidates are qualified and that he will not necessarily vote for the Republican.
Writer and actor Joseph C. Phillips got so excited about Obama earlier this year that he started calling himself an "Obamacan" — Obama Republican.
Michael Steele, the Republican former lieutenant governor of Maryland who lost a Senate race there in 2006, said he is proud of Obama as a black man, but that "come November, I will do everything in my power to defeat him."
John McWhorter, a self-described political moderate who is a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and a New York Sun columnist, said Obama's Democratic Party victory "proves that while there still is some racism in the United States, there is not enough to matter in any serious manner.
James T. Harris, a Milwaukee radio talk show host and public speaker, said he opposes Obama "with love in my heart."
Moderate Republican Edward Brooke, who blazed his own trail in Massachusetts in 1966 as the first black popularly elected U.S. senator, said he is "extremely proud and confident and joyful" to see Obama ascend
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