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Black Economic I
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BLACK EWS BRIEFS
(LT S - WASHINGTO� DC)
AACP TO REASSESS GOALS AND
T CTICS
( e York) Leader of the nation' leading civil right
organization - th AACP - held a priv te meeting in ew
Yor City last e end to reas the organization's go
and tactics. Atl t 24 of the 76-year-old organization' board
member er at the athering. Executive Director Ben­
j min Hook refused to detail what w discussed. Ho ever,
he did tell memb r of the pr that there could be" po ible
change in prioritie " that could r ult in ignificant r due­
tio in some of the roup' programs. It also revealed
that the organ.i.z.ation move from Yor to Baltimore is
expected by arch of ne t year.
pproach ill be to identify the
program nece ry for our con-
tiruents' ell being and then
incorporate them into th alter­
native bud ets. Th e docu­
ments ill refl ct ach tate'
particular circum ranee ."
A econd re lution add­
r se the limit d financial
backing recei eel by the ino­
rity Bu ines Enterpri e Legal
Defense and Education Fund.
Caucus member over th up­
comin y r will raise $1 million
to . ist the fund in doing it
ork -- buttre ing blac - ned
busine es. The fund a e
tablish d by u.s. Rep. Parren ], '
itchell (0- d.) to enforce t
. pr' io ta li
di .
The Justice Department is
charged ith filln suit against
federal contractors not comply­
in ith the e provisions;
ho ever, their lack of initiative
in pro cuting violators prom­
pts the fund to act in place of the
Ju tice Department. The $1
million will be used to fin nee
litigation and ist these enter-
BCSL
EGISLATIVE PLA
ASHI G TO -- In eep­
ing ith the theme of i inth
Annual Conference in Phila­
delphia, th tiona! Black
Caucu of State Leg' lator
adopted a legi lative plan con­
sisting of resolutions address in
"The Politic of Blac Eco­
nomic Independence."
The resolutions, drafted,
debated nd approved at the
NBCSL meetin ill be in­
troduced beginning in January
in the42 state legislatures here
NBCSL members hold oflce,
Amon the ey deci ions
made is that each state caucu
ill dev lop an alternative
bud et for ubmission to it
. gfo
pI by
constituents.
"The example shown by the
ew York State Black nd
Puerto Rican Legislative Cau­
cus, hich s cured 00 millon
in pr rams, uggests that this i
useful tacticforallour tate to
employ," said NBCSL pr i­
dent, aryland state Sen.
Clarence . MitchelL III. "Our
BLACK CQUIRE 100 ILLIO
COC COLA FIR
(philadelphia) A group of Black bu inessmen acquired
majority 0 net hip last Wednesday of the '100 million Coca
Co bottJina &aochi in Philadelphia. Th roup
A KH USES CO TROVERSY
BEA UDA
(Hamilton, Bermuda) A political co troy rsy been
touched off in the island nation of Berm a r ult of a
planned isit by American Blac u lim leader Louis
Fan han. A leading member of the rulin United Bermuda
Party has label d Farra.khan a "racist and thoroughly bad
new ." Ho ever, the predom.i.n&ntly Black Progr ive Labor
Party h declared it elcomes the v· it, Farrakhan is exp c­
ted to arrive on the i land December 27,
pri e ; fundr i in tart
immediately,
In upport of th national
venture capital fund e tabli h d
by Rep. itchell, NBC L ill
pe rhe d a drive to r i $1
million to i t bl ck-o ned
bu in irh c pital for-
BLACKS SUFFER SETBACK I
C DE IA
(W hington DC) According to a recent hington Po t
report, Blac Americ ns are becoming le and less visible in
the nation' academic communities. The report found that
Bl account for I than 4 percent of college faculty mem­
b r nation id ; Black college enrollment has tarted declin­
in inc r chi a pea in the lat 1970's and that the
perce e of Black in medical chool freshman cl e has
dropp d from 6.3 percent in 1974 to 5.6 percent in 1983.
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