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...think his time has come. He's worked for it. I think it's up to us to make sure it comes out best." - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Gaddafi's appointment as chairman of the African Union. (Associated Press...
...your decision to respond to the call for unity, to push Africa forward towards the United States of Africa." - In his inaugural address as chairman of the African Union...
After nearly four hours and six rounds of voting, the Republican National Committee elected former Lt. Governor Michael Steele as its first-ever African American chairman. Evidently, Steele's rivals had failed to convince the 168-member committee that they could adapt to a post-racial, web-driven political era. Take Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's ex-presidential campaign manager and an early candidate for the RNC seat who dropped out of the race after word spread that he had distributed a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" a few weeks after Obama's victory. The incumbent, Mike Duncan...
...Before becoming the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland in 2003, Steele worked as a corporate securities attorney at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington...
...Eventually, he graduated from Georgetown University's Law Center and embarked on a career in corporate law. He also became active in Maryland's Republican Party. As one of the few blacks in the GOP, he stood out at a time when party officials were keenly interested in cultivating African-American support. In 2000, he was elected state GOP chairman, and two years later he was elected lieutenant governor. In 2006, he ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat but managed to attract a significant share of votes from the state's large black electorate. After that episode, he joined...