[mojitojoe]

Now the question that should be answered is just how to Charisse Carney Nunes get the tape. Her book was pictured in the video. Also, if they are going to claim that other presidents were honored as they have claimed...I want to know the lyrics for those songs as well. Who wrote the lyrics to the songs that kids sung ________________________ She went to Harvard with Obama and knew him then. Her face book page and friends are pretty interesting.

[RummyChick]

been doing a little digging on a people search site.

It is possible that the teacher, Elvira James, is either the daughter, daughter in law, or some other kind of relative of the Civil Rights activist, President of the NAACP Rev. Willie James.

He was a veteran who sued over housing and won causing a town to be integrated. There was a tribute to him in the Senate record in 2000.

This would be right up the alley of Charisse Carney Nunes..

and why it would be Elvira James class that would do this performance with the book being displayed.

[BP2]

She went to Harvard with Obama and knew him then. Her face book page and friends are pretty interesting.

WHOA! Charisse seems to be quite taken with Obama.

I wonder if he bumped into her on any campaign visits or afterward while visiting New Jersey?

Hmmm ... it wouldn't be the first time a politician has abused his power while in the White House ...

We better archive her Facebook and other websites — PRONTO!

[BP2]

Archive it! NOW!

http://www.charissecarneynunes.com/

Archive.org - 4 pages going back to Feb 08:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.charissecarneynunes.com/

Also:
http://brandnuwords.com/newsletter_jan09.htm
http://brandnuwords.com/newsletter_sept08.html
http://www.brandnuwords.com/events.html
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://brandnuwords.com/

[maggief]

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BELL IS SAID TO FILE CASE OVER HIRING AT HARVARD
Boston Globe - Tuesday, March 3, 1992
Author: Jack Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Derrick Bell, a professor at Harvard Law School, has filed a complaint with the US Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights asking for an investigation into the school’s hiring practices and the dearth of tenured minority professors at the school, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. Bell has been on leave for two years as a protest against the absence of tenured black women on the school’s faculty. Bell, who is currently teaching at New York University’s School of Law, sa id at the time he took his sabbatical from Harvard he would not teach there again until there was a tenured position offered to a black woman. Bell could not be reached last night for comment.

In an unusual but related move, Harvard’s president, Neil Rudenstine, has agreed to an emergency meeting with representatives of the Black Law Students Association tomorrow morning in an effort to stem the rising anger over the lack of tenured minority professors. The meeting is scheduled to take place prior to an announcement by Bell about his actions.

The school administration is also under fire since students learned four white men were recommended for tenured positions on Friday. Three of the men are visiting professors. The recommendation on behalf of the visiting faculty members has inflamed student anger because two black women and a Hispanic man were denied consideration last year due to a a required one-year waiting period after a faculty member has been a visiting professor. The three visiting professors recommended for tenure have not gone through the waiting period, according to Charisse Carney , president of the law school’s Coalition for Civil Rights. [CORRECTION-DATE: Thursday, March 5, 1992: CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, an article in Tuesday’s Metro/Region section incorrectly identified a Harvard student. Charisse Carney is president of the Black Law Students Association.]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010400117.html

The Conventional Wisdom Defied
Washington Post, The (DC) - Friday, January 4, 2008
Author: Paul Kane and Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post Staff Writers

EXCERPT

For the cadre of young, talented African Americans who have stayed close to Obama since Harvard Law School, the senator’s success is not all that surprising. They say they always believed he would be propelled to great heights. But even as they watched him become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, even as they raised money for his political runs in Illinois, they did not imagine him on a presidential stage.

Charisse Carney -Nunes, a Washington area writer and former co-president of Harvard’s Black Law Students Association, remembered Obama addressing the group in 1990, speaking without notes but capturing the same sense of hope that won over Iowa. “You just knew . . . he was someone that was so very special,” she said.