Top Black News Stories of 2004

1. Election of U.S. Senator Barrack Obama
http://www.obamaforillinois.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={98F1584F-9302-4038-BE87-6B52E9151CB3}

2. War in Iraq.

3. Court Trials of the Black, Rich, and Famous (Kobe Bryant,Michael Jackson, etc..)

4. Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction

5. NAACP (IRS Audit, Mfume stepping down, Julian Bond Speech on President Bush)

6. Radio One Launches TV One http://www.tvoneonline.com/<http://www.tvoneonline.com/

7. CRUNK...musical genre that became mainstream. (Yea !)

8. Faith and Politics - old phenomena with new twist - willing to hear conservative messages on gay marriage.

9. (tie) Sudan /Ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti.

10. NBC Anchor Brian Williams suggests diversity is irrelevant. http://www.nabj.org/newsroom/news_releases/story/906p-1428c.html

Person of the Year Barrack Obama