Clark Atlanta University Panther. (Atlanta, Georgia) 1989-????, November 19, 1992, Image 2

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Page 2 NEWS November 19, 1992 Use only as directed. Contains caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee © 1992 SmithKline Beecham History made in the 11th District McKinney elected to Congress Cynthia McKinney By Jayme L. Bradford News Editor Cynthia McKinney became the first African American woman in America’s political history to become Congresswoman for the 11th District. The Associated Press declared her the winner by 68 percent. “This is the most significant and important victory politically since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965,” said Tyrone Brooks, McKinney’s campaign chairman. “There’s a lady in the House,” supporters shouted at the headquar ters located in Decatur. She won the race against Woodrow Lovett, a Burke County farmer. “We didn’t realize at the time that we were making history. Georgia was ready for a change. You can’t get more a change than Cynthia McKinney,” she said. According to representative for the City of Atlanta, Nan Orrock, McKinney has a grasp on the issues and understands their concerns. “Look like we have changed the country and the state in one day. We put the United States in the progressive from the conservative,” said Stewart Acuff, president of Atlanta's Labor Council. The former state representative, rejoined her father, Billy McKinney, to remain the first father-and-daughter legislative team in the country. Dennis Kimbro heads new CAU entrepreneurship center Luqman Farid Staff Writer What are the keys to success? Dr. Dennis Kimbro, author of the best-selling book. Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice, offers the answer to students as direc tor of Clark Atlanta University’s Center for Entrepreneurship. The New Jersey native, went from to a $ 55,000-a-year job to a best-selling author. HisB.A. andM.A. degrees were earned from the University of Oklahoma and Northwestern University. He later received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern, were he studied wealth and poverty in underde veloped countries. Kimbro turned his attention to wealth and poverty in this coun try in 1985. His discoveries re sulted in his first book Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice. “I was looking for the keys to success,” he said. “Therefore, I began to align myself with suc cessful people.” Think and Grow Rich, now in its eleventh printing, is the No. 1 selling non-fiction book among African Americans. Kimbro said nobody has written a book like Dr. Dennis Kimbro Photo By Curtis McDowell this for African Americans and there is definitely a need in the community. While interviewing success ful African Americans for the book, Kimbro met with a lot of adversity. He said it took months to interview one per son and all of his money to travel to these interviews. In 1987, Kimbro left his job as a pharmaceutical represen tative, to devote all of his at tention to his book. It took Galileo 16 years to master the universe. You have one night. It seems unfair. The genius had all that time. While you have a few short hours to learn your sun spots from your satellites before the dreaded astronomy exam. On the other hand, Vivarin gives you the definite advantage. It helps keep you awake and mentally alert for hours. Safely and conveniently. So even when the subject matter’s dull, your mind will stay razor sharp. If Galileo had used Vivarin, maybe he could have mastered the solar VIVARIN for fast ptcK up -safe as coffee system faster, too. Revive with VIVARIN: