azoo
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CO ST CE C EY
"Though no one h gone to
our countries in an official
c pacity s we come here,
m e it bit le than a
cultural exchange," she y .
"But for four month we will
live with American famili and
wor at American work place ,
and inevitably share with tho
families d orker our own
w ya of living and 0 ing
even as'we learn from them."
Con ance cKinney is not
a tranger to the United S tes,
having come here in 1975
from her native land to ttend
o ood, a small Bl c col
lege of le than 2,000 tudents
in Huntsville, Alabama.
"I have brother who went
to Oakwood", she ys begin
ning to recount ho ch a
small American college could
attract a youna lady all the way
from the Bahama 'And
recruiter from Oak ood came
S 0 honor DuBois
HERST, ASS - Four
days of tivities in honor of
th 1 e Dr. .B.B. DuBoi
ill be held Augu 26-29
in Ghan to mark the 23rd
, ersary of DuBoi ' de tho
lnvit tion e being sent out
by the Ghanaian government,
th United State ba d .E.B.
DuBoi Foundation, Inc., and
the University of a sachusetts
at Amber to an international
li of organizations, educational
in itution, and individuals to
join th people of Ghana in
honoring DuBoi, the Bl k
activi, olar, author and
Father of Pan-Africanism.
One of original incor-
porators of the AAC�, Du-
80i the thor of 19 boo ,
hundred of es ys, tre ti
and lecture dealing primarily
the hi ory, condition of
and rir ions of
ricans d the people -
of Africa.' een 1900 and
1945, Dr. DuBois organized
African Co through-
out Europe to 'end colonialism
on Mric continent.
Followi his quittal from
cCarthy-era indict ent by
the U.S. government for his
peace activities d dvocacy
of friendship and cooperation
ith t Soviet Union and
China Dr. DuBois and hi ife
too up residence in Ghana
in 1961, There, DuBois a sumed
the directorship of the
Secretari te for an Encyclopedia
Africana and died at e 95
on the eve of the 'massive 1963
arch on Washington.
The DuBois residence was
designated the W.E.B. DuBois
Memorial Center for Pan-African
Culture on Jun 22, 1985 by
Flight Lt. J J, Ra ling, Ghana
head of state, and delcared a
national monument in ovem
ber.
Black
Caucus
organizes
ConUnuedfnHn 1
• The Sen te banking commit
tee was expected to begin
hearings July 15 on S.B. 2498.
CBe spoke r n Pat Smith
ould not comment on whether
C ucus member would shift
support to the more "moderate"
ver 'on, saying only, 'the Cau
cus supports S.B. 2570. It is
identical to the Hou versi on."
Senator Alan Cran ton
authored the Caucu supported
ver ion.
Kan Republican ancy
Katzenbaum sponsored the third
Sen te bill, S,B, 2636, under
consideration by the Foreign
Affairs Committee. It was
described as "not dramatic at
all" by the Riegle pre s secre
tary,
to Bahama Academy High
School, and ed with me
about the college. It has clo
tie with Alabama A "
But Con ance was not on
to tarry long in 'the States' .
Finding e mi d the idyllic
climate of her island country,
the . consistently ann temper-
I tures, and ocean breezes that
e had almo t en for grant-
ed, smile , "I ent straight
b home after gr duation."
And for the p !Ie en years
Constance has been a cia}
orker for the Ministry of Edu-
cation in u, capital of
Bahama Island .
Since her induction into the
Council of Intern tional Pro
grams, and the sub quent pli
nars and gue spe er that h
afforded her an in 'de 100
into area cial encie, Con-
ance has observed differences
in the way Kalamazoo admini
ster to it client population,
as well similaritie in overal
social rvice patterns. ,One
pattern she has noticed, in
particular, that is h d1y
endemic to her native island,
is the extremely high n
of clients 'ed per
worker •.
Thi inevitably
resource a worker
disposal, and often in
of Con ance's 0 n 0
Baham , leads to a call to
private sector.
"Talking, as a type of fir
aid, . releves the initial
the client i feeling
their ituation," Constance
says. "But after coun lling
and the variou referral r
vice are u d up, getting indivi
duals in the community involv-
ed ' the n tural altern tive.
It may com to u declaring
to them 'The are your
poor'. In that w y e
addre th ide of bein
your brothel's eeper. I e
little private ctor soliciting in
that way in Kalamazoo."
Con ance i impre d, h
ever, with the ay Kalamazoo
orkin with tee e student
oth r, and th f t that
local hool h been t up to
ddre their needs ithout
igmatizing t eir often delicate
condition
Her pre nt signment in
Bronson's Ob etric & Gynoco
logy Clinic - where she or
over the ne t few months will
enhance her involvement with
pregnant teen in the Baham
Island - came a result of
her need to add to her coun
try's repertoire of way for
dealing with this growin sosi
phenomenon.
, do e nt pregnancies i
not a m [or problem in the
Baham no ," Constance y,
"certainly not the problem that
drug abu i. But with better
preventive mea res we hope to
em th tide before it does get
out of hand." Indeed, emming
the tide of humanitarian neglect
is hat thi contin ent to al
mazoo has been an bout.
have ft
t 11, for
sbington D.C., and th n
hom , hopefully our city will
have been affected by their
pre nce - their enthusiasms
their culture, their hope -
even they see to effect
change in their own systems
a direct re t of their many
, inter ction ith u ,
UL Conference opens
S FRANCISCO - One of
the critical issues in Black
America is the tatu and future
of the Blac family and it is
this i e that will serve as the
principal focus of the first
plenary . on of the ation
Urban League's 1986 Annu
Conference on onday, July
20th, at 9 a.m. at the osco
Center, San Franci o.
The aker for this e n
moder te' bill, S.B. 2498,
authored by Senators Ted
ennedy and Lo ell eicker,
J urciukoni said the more
moderate bill ould prohIbit
loan to the South African
governmen ' ban ne inv stment
in South Afric ; porhibit the
tran er of technology' and ban
import of non-strategic
minerals, coal and steel:
The more moderate bill
ould wait 18 months before
banning all computer sales in
South Africa.
will be one of the nation's
foremost psychiatrists and
expert on child ten and youth,
Dr. James P. Com r of the
Yale Child Stury Center,
The official opening of the
Conference takes place on Sun
day evening July 20th, wh n
John E. Job, President d
Chief Executive Officer of
the deliver the key
note addle", major policy
tement.
The theme of the 1986
Conference, 'or' To-
gether To e A Difference,"
reflect the b ' philo P y of
the Le e hich call for
bringing together of all ele
ment 'thin community in
pport of program and other
tivitie de 'gned to improve
the quality of life in Bl c
Americ .
The Conference clo on
Wednesday evenin ith a din-.
ner at whi h illi L. Brown,
Spe er of the Califomai Assem-
bly ill be th er.