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Angel Booth - Hampton Short Course 2008

Angel BoothAngel BoothI am the youngest child and the only daughter in my family, presumably a daddy's girl. I grew up in Richmond, Va., and I traveled about 1 ½ hours down I-64 to Hampton University in Hampton, Va., for a college experience close to home. There, I learned about journalism, politics, the world and the importance of First Amendment rights.

After graduating on May 11, 2008, with a Bachelor of Arts in print journalism, I was excited about my newfound independence. However, I found leaving my "Home by the Sea," Hampton University, to be more of a humbling experience. After having internships at ESSENCE magazine and The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., I didn't have a job, and student loan bills were six months away. However, I am a woman of faith. I am in Washington. I am at the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, and I am ready to work. I don't have time to worry, I'm only 21.


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Need for public broadcasting critical during elections, WETA chief said

Submitted on June 5, 2008 - 5:44pm.
WASINGTON - Public television and radio are among America's most valued civic institutions. And they are available to every citizen for about $1.33 a year, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president of WETA, the Washington PBS affiliate, said at the National Press Club on Thursday.Rockefeller ..
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U.S. is facing an identity crisis, new report suggests

Submitted on June 4, 2008 - 6:07pm.
WASHINGTON - The United States is facing an identity crisis, according to a report released Tuesday by the Bradley Project on America's National Identity. The next generation of Americans will know less than their parents about the nation's history and founding ideas, and many Americans ..
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Amanda Espericueta and the bee

Submitted on May 30, 2008 - 2:27pm.
WASHINGTON, May 29 - They were celebrities among themselves - their own paparazzi. "Are you a speller?" "Can you sign my book?" The picture of an unsupervised field trip, spellers circled the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel this week, anxiously exchanging red ..
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Actor Joe Pantoliano asks Congress to kill mental illness stigma

Submitted on May 28, 2008 - 6:35pm.
Click on photo to enlarge or download: Jordan Burnham, who jumped out of a 9th story window in a suicide attempt, talks to actor Joe Panoliano, who was also diagnosed with depression, about insurance reform. SHFWire photo by Angel BoothWASHINGTON - At the far right end of the head table, Jordan ..
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Senate battles over money for HIV/AIDS care in Africa

Submitted on May 27, 2008 - 6:50pm.
WASHINGTON - The 4-year-old who sat on the marble lobby floor of the Senate Hart Office Building and rolled his plastic green and yellow tank truck back and forth to another child made an unlikely candidate for a lobbyist. But he was. The 3-foot, brown-skinned Thubelihle Shabalala and his mother, ..
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Former Fed chief warns solving credit crisis will take time

Submitted on May 14, 2008 - 7:20pm.
WASHINGTON - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said Wednesday on Capitol Hill that there are no quick and easy answers to the country's credit crisis. As consumer debt reached $15.3 million in March, according to the Federal Reserve, Americans seem to be making greater use of ..
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