‘Power 150’
Ebony magazine is out with its “Power 150” list of the most powerful African Americans in the country, and nearly half of them have D.C. ties.
Apart from President Barack Obama and the entire membership of the Congressional Black Caucus, other prominent pols on the list include Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., Justice Clarence Thomas, political strategist Donna Brazile, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty.
Other Washingtonians who made the cut: Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson, BET CEO Debra Lee, Mystics owner Sheila Johnson, former secretary of state Colin Powell and entrepreneur Robert Johnson.
The issue of the magazine also includes a special feature on the African Americans in the Obama administration, where we learn, among other things, that White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers “has managed to put grits on the White House breakfast menu.”
