THE TERRORIST ATTACKS last week in Mumbai, India, where it is estimated that 172 people were killed and about 240 wounded, serve as a grim reminder that fanatics bent on killing and destruction are hard to detect and sort out.
HAPPY TURKEY DAY: Today is the day that folks around the country (if you're lucky) will sit down to eat and talk turkey. During these economic hard times, we should embrace and help one another as much as possible. Thanksgiving is only one day . . . but folks still have to eat and survive the other 364 days of the year. So with that said, read on:
THE NATIONAL MEDICAL Fellowships' organization that supplies scholarships to minorities hosted its annual awards gala last week at the Mid-America Club.
Stella Foster: Chicagoan Desiree Rogers is expected to be named special assistant to the president. White House social secretary, sources said. Rogers is currently president of social networking for Allstate Financial, a unit of the Northbrook-based insurance firm.
THE SCOOP: DUE to the recent Hudson tragedy, singer Jennifer Hudson will not be performing with Brian McKnight on Nov. 28 at Star Plaza in Merrillville. Brian is still set to perform.
THE SCOOP: State Sen. Rickey Hendon has written a book on President-elect Barack Obama titled Black Enough, White Enough: The Obama Dilemma, coming out in January and published by the Third World Press.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA is already proving to be the right "economic" choice for the highest office in the land. Just ask the folks at this paper who have been besieged by friends, family and supposedly long-distance cousins clamoring to get a copy of the Sun-Times' incredible and historic Nov. 5 Obama front page picture that will be framed and hung as a piece of history and a keepsake in thousands of homes in our beloved city, state and across the country.
THE STARS CAME OUT on Monday to pay their respects to Jennifer Hudson, whose precious family including her mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson; brother, Jason Hudson, and nephew, Julian King, were senselessly murdered last month on the South Side.
