University to Release Obama Nonprofit Records
August 25, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
The University of Illinois is expected to release records of Sen. Barack Obama’s work with a nonprofit organization tomorrow, in a decision that reversed its earlier stance, reports the Associated Press.
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created in the 1990s, chaired by Senator Obama, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and co-founded by William Ayers. Mr. Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was part of a radical group known as the Weathermen that took credit for nonfatal bombings at the Pentagon and U.S. Capital during the 1960s, the news agency reports.
Senator Obama has denounced Mr. Ayers’s Weatherman activities. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was given nearly $50-million by the Annenberg Foundation, as part of an ambitious school-improvement effort conducted nationwide.
