Our Word Today

By Herb Boyd

Managing Editor, Our World Today 

Photo:  From the left:  Kevin Chappell, Cynthia Gordy, Herb Boyd, Pamela Gentry, Derek Dingle, April Ryan and Roland Martin.   

New York—When seven Black journalists are invited to fly on Air Force One with the president, you know there’s been a dramatic change in the White House.   Moreover, the journalists had an exclusive roundtable interview with President Obama, and he was as accommodating as the commodious surroundings.    

For more than twenty minutes, on a flight from Andrews Air Force Base to Kennedy Airport in New York where he was scheduled to address the NAACP’s centennial convention on Thursday, Obama fielded a range of questions.

Julian Bond                                           

                                                   By Herb Boyd                                                      

                                                                Managing Editor, Our World Today 

New York—An organization or institution’s centennial is always a grand event, and when it’s the NAACP’s 100^th  

anniversary the ceremonies will probably as endless as they will be memorable.      The NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization and nearly everybody that’s anybody is slated to participate in one of many workshops, plenary sessions, and special events.