Thi fi ature i Q ne com­
pilation from more than 100
bloc -owned and oriented
n papers Q ross t h na­
tion. It deal ith hat
blue . who are all-too-often
lilll rem nil. d. are doing to
promote full participation in
.. , merican life by black
A III ricans. It i thus Q alute
frosn ull of our r. aders to
1111 'unR h roes ... and is de­
"i 'ned to be Q chatteng» for
till of u to keep on doin our
"(Ir: I .51.
he
merican Thor cic Soci­
nd man other profes­
I or anization .
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it raci m ..
"Blac merica i f ced
it h three major ocial afflic-
t ion : as i e unemploy-
1111.:111. 'rime. and the all goo
\ rongd ling f black elected
uft i 'ial .' cc rding (0 R p.
1itchell. irchcll accu: d
til\' \\ hire media or over
rea 'ling. in the rep rting of
t he many and aried inci­
dent. of aile ed ron doing
of our blac elected official .
Hc a1. 0 pointed out ho
Black Arneri a a. i t the
media by agreeing with the
media .•• � e got orne dumb
pet pie in t he I blac com­
munit .• t ." H referred to
1 he neare t and mo t recent
Ie eland indictments
again t their blac council­
men. He continued to ac­
now ledge these incidents
part of the current "anti­
razy" and "raci m" in
America today.
Propo ition 13, anti-bus­
in and anti-affirmative ac­
tion are not th cause of. the
many probl ms in America
today. He cited the 117 billion
dollar defi it budget as the
on oing culprit:
He aid 1 hat CUlling (hi
lid ct u ed f r killing and
redirc ning the mon y to ard
the elimination of the ocial
plight of Bla America and
I he poor i, needed, As long
a. merica continue to
pend billions of dollar on
defcn: e, the health education
and unemployment and
ot her deplorabl ocial con­
dition of Blac America
and it poor will continue to
flouri h.
Rep. Mitchell went on to
ay, "We cannot e peer
black to face this perilous
itu tlon, inflation, n III
pri unemployment, by
ta jng hom hun ry and
reeling here others are
eatin and are keeping arm
Hun ry people ill eat and
eel' arm."
The non violent people
died in th 60' he id.' We
are dealin ith a n breed
of re pi . A people that can
ur i e through lavery,
Iyn 'hin and a depression is
not a hopeles people."
Th 14th Di trict Congres­
ional Blac . Caucu i a non­
parti an organization con-
1.IIIIg of Republicans,
Democrat and independents
or ing together for the
urvi al of the blac com­
munity.
. ill .c thi� i, black unity it
ha PUI p iwcr in th blac ------ .. __ •
vote. A vote hich ha. d -
cidcd ma 'or electi n. includ­
ing th . e of 197 .
The Black aucu ha
mad rhos elected official
a 'are that as . uch el 'ted
offi .ial. he i accountable n t
only to th publi ,but al 0 to
I he black community who
gave him th ed e.
Rev. EI in Brown made a
report on respon 10 ac-
.ountabilitj .
Out tanding community
-crvice a ard were present­
ed 10: Mr . Jo ephine Blair,
chairwoman of the In esti­
gating Committee of the 14th
on res ional Black Caucus;
1r . Van y assey, 1st ice
pre. idem of the 14th Con-l
gres, i nal Black Cau us for
OUI tanding community
wor ; Re . Atty. iIIiam R.
'1Ii • edit rand publi her of
The Reporter ne paper;
Chri iian All Stars, leading
Go .. pel singing quartet doing
much community or k ;
Community hair. out rand­
ing community work; Art
Men n, out tanding com-
munity rk in Ea. t Akron;
Dale iller, director of
Operation Fight and Crimi­
nal Ju lice Chairman of 14th
Con re ional Black Caucu ,
out. .. anding c ommunit y
or ; Jeff He ell, ho t of
Blac Community Hoo on
radio tat ion CUE, great
community or er; Ally.
°d in Parm, outstanding
community worx: illie
an. t pre ident of Black
l.aw nforcem nt Offi er.;
and Dr. m. K. Ha kins,
p .Ior of Greater Bethel
Bapti. t Church, or anizer.
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political
have died in South
African pri on sin e /963.
How a it that this particu­
lar ca e got 0 much publicity
and that an inquest held?
eral hundred pro on r ,
if n t th u and, have died in
, uth, fri an jail eith r
from natural cau or a
j reo ult of beatin and 0 on.
BUI th 45-and thi is n
important qualifi ation­
were held under th urity
la which allo a man or
man to be h ld indefinite­
irhout trial.
h 0 much fu
caused b Bi o's death? It i
m view that the interna­
ti nal outcry hich folio ed
th determinin element.
The uth African ere
genuinely caught off baJan e
at d they ere p hed into
holding an inq t. They
eren't prepared for the
events hich too place in
that court-room, nor did the
realize they ould catch t
orld' imagination th
did. Thi ho no only ho
• naive, but ho closed the
uth frican are. Their
reaction as not one of
shock and horro as the
detai of the e idenc ere
unfolded. but of com pla­
c n . That, in my v' t i
very traightfo ard expr -
sion of hat is ron 'th
South frica it is ruled
today by the hite minority.
liTO
y-mAlln
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Our readers mQY wish to
end conKratulQtory mages
and me. ages of encoural!,e­
ment 10 the papers whic'h
report hQPpeninKs of interest
or concern to us. 'uch me. -
Ul!.e. mQY be ent to the
flubli hers. editors or 'ther
per. ons b simply add", inK
them. u ing th, nam. 0/ th,
pupn. do BIQck Resource.
Inc .• 410 Central PQrk We. t .
PH C. New York. N. .
10015.
Th Iotlo in material
beg in a four part ri
entitl. d "A Miserable and
Lonely Death ••• th name of
a dramatized version of the
la t days of Ste Biko's
journey from his arrest until
his death in outh A/rica. It
us written b Jon Blair and
orman Fenton durin th
thr. - e trial in Pretoria.
The folio ing is an inter­
view ith Jon BIQir concern­
in� the death of teve Bi 0,
the most' prominent member
of the BIQck Consciou ness
movement in outh Africa,
Courtesy: Un co Features
PMlof or a
a
H "hat prompted ou and
orman Fenton to do this
dramatization?
John Blair: It gre out of
our ordinary jobs or in on
a current affairs progr m
for a commercial tele ision
company. A colleague ug­
ested doing a dramatized
er ion of the inquest hlle it
a till ta ing place. e
ern omeone to South Africa
to blain th inquest tran-
ript and orman Fenton
and I et to or,
primarily fr m ne
report. The court
three ee and w began
riling at the beginning of
the third
It too to
produce television script
and, t h inques
fini hed, e left
tho e thing hich e kne
ere till 10 happen. e
filmed it er a priod of t 0
da '. immediately after the
,"erdict on December 2, then
pUI it out the folio illl
Thur day, December 8.
a re-ult of ·the television
ver ion. which half an
hour Ion • the Royal Shakes­
peare Company as ed
whether e ould be pre­
pared to. rite a to-hour
lage ver ion. e ere
pr mpted I thin by a num­
ber of c n iderations other
Ihan ju t our job. e both
felt that this a unique
eveht. not only in South
frican hi tory but in orld
attitud to ard South Atn-
LAC
HAPPEnlnG/:
{For your continuing cQ/�n­
dur oj mQjor black events.
Pleo� ('ul out this column
Qnd ke 'P it in your own not.­
book. Please mQr. th� dQt,
of ch entry.)
a This blac
African nalion, ith the
African continent' largest
.. i1dlife population, has
ked thai the ealthier,
d veloped nations provide
financial aid to protect the
vast but d indlin wildlife
resources of Tanzania and
other underdeveloped n­
tion .
The Tanzanian inister of
alur 1 Resources, Mr. Solo-.
on Saibull, noted that Tan­
zan did not have enoup
fin DC' I resources to control
the id pread poachina of
e rhinos, zeb
lion ,cheetahs and leopards.
These animal. are smuUled
from Tanzania into Euro­
pean countries, Japan and
the United States, thus help­
in to deplete the dangerous­
ly d indling ildlife of
Africa.
Mr. Saibull, referring to
T nzania' hUIe investment
in ildlife park, stated: "It
can't be right for th orld to
say to Tanzania, or any other
Third World country, that it
must guarantee the survival
of these parks even if Tan­
zanians must go wit out
adequate food, clothing,
shelter, health or education."
He dded: .. 1t ill be all
ri ht if the orld told Tan­
zania that she should guaran­
tee the surviv I of these
parks� but it must be the
understandina that her ic
needs ill not be made to
·uffer ...
KII(NI�i (Zi e) -
uncertainty.liII remain the
rule here, lhree percent of
Ihe population who are hite
retain an iron grip over a
upposedly "one man, one
vote" democratic African
nation.
In the a e of a peaceable
Iran ition to supposedly
blac majority rule. whites
have continued to flee from
the countrysides here the
black liberation (i.e. guer­
rilla) forces under the reader­
ship of Joshua Nkomo and
Robert Mupbe have m
their mosl successful raids.
Methodist Bishop Abel
Muzorewa, the symbolic
head of the precarious ne
b ck- hite coalition in Rho­
d . , has steadfastly refused
to enter into any formal
nqotiations with either of
-the two major rebel I det
ho h ve called for a genuine
majority control of every
aspect of t e nation' life.
U af ---- U.
Ambassador Andrew Youn
made an indirect attac upon
the political tactics and
stance of Republican Senator
S.I. Haya a a of California.
Haya awa, in a cleverly
posed motion, h d called for
American support of the Ian
Smith regime. r. Youn., in
line with ro ing unofrlcial
sentiment at' the White
House, has urged that any
U.N. endorsement of Mr.
Smith's hite plan for black
Rhodesian rule ould lead to
Soviet and Cuban interven­
tion and di ter for bl ck
in Rhod
crimination i al ay rong
·enl on trial in Ih Brian F.
eber affirmati e action
c before the U.S. Supreme
, Court.
Th pro-affirmati e a lion
side of the ar ued that
"E ery choice you ma e is
di r mination," to hich
Chief Justice arren E. Bur­
ger replied, "You re yin,
.hal you can d' riminate for·
good motives. but not for
bad." That is the 'ay thin
be n in hat promised to be
major post-Sa e c in-
volvin affirmative action in
beh If of inority oppor-
can life, the Hou of Repre­
sentatives Ethi Committee
opened and dosed a precau­
tionary in tigation of bri­
bery repons invo in 0
Ho member.
t • D.C ....... The
Justice Department con­
tinued to pursue i efforts to
t h art t Sear, Roeb
and Company wt chargin
that the U.S. Go ernment
h created an "unbalanced
or force dominated by
hite m ." Th' uit
held the promi of bein a
major opportunity opener
for all b Americans.