mo , Pointer join
DETROIT - John Amos
ctor of age, screen and tele-
on, and oel Pointer,
violioni ,compo r and vocalis
are coming to Detroit to per­
form in an extr ordinary event
titled 4An Evenin with John
Amo oel Pointer" , in a
Tribute to Dr. artin Luther
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NEWS BRIEFS
Continued frum P
ve the ate money. In
ddition, h accu s the for­
mer Democratic Governor
Bruce Babbitt of illegally
e t blishing the holid y
after the t te legi ature
rejected it by one vote.
However, civil right group
h ve ccu d of echarn of
racism. Among tho vow­
ing legal ction ain t the
echarn move i the Rev.
arren Stewart r. who
charged," r. echarn ha a
raci mentality.'
ment before it can be re­
'ported. Dome ic reporter
violating the regulation can
be nt to jail for up to ten
year and foreign correspon­
dent can be expelled from
the country. The arrest
and pre crackdo n appear
to uggest that the hite
min rity government ha
failed in it effort to end
Black unre t.
CIT DEL RULED OT
R CI L
Charle ton S.C. - A
hazing in ident w . h re­
lted in Black cadet Kevin
e ith withdrawin from
the S uth Carolina military
h I - The Citadel - ha
been ruled by a hool
di iplinary board as not
racially motivated. esmith
ha harged that five white:
cadet broke into hi room
deres d in u Klux Klan­
typ attire, shouted racial
in ult nd bum d a small
cro . However the board
decided. that the incident
wa intended as a joke and
a de igned to "motivate"
esmith who wa reported-
ly n t performing well.
Despite the bard ruling
ith' parent and the
CP are said to be con-
iderin la it.
BL C CITY
GER
ing tribute
Thi event will al tour
minimum of 13 key citie in
the U.S. prior to a European
tour.
The fir t tour will be held in
D troit durin the week of
January 17-18 1987 at the
usic Hall. The event proceed
will be u d for the Mu urn
of African American History,
Children Abu Center Art Bu t
figure of Dr. artin Luther
ing to be placed in the State
Capitol.
Amos portrays variou
character ch a Dr. Martin
Luther King el n andela
of South Afric and Ronald
Mc air The ron ut) and
others.
The chemi try of Pointer's
mu . c interwoven ith Amos'
craft on age prom to
uplift the audience for an
unusal and incomp rable even­
ing.
3
continued
Africans in So eto," ·d.
"Under the Pretoria regime the
live of African are
She 00 to tell of the" u�
jection and. control" of 24
�on A:fricans by 4.5 million
"em carry . e
are bounded day and night by
the police. From birth to the
grave, live in prison. e
have become ali in the land
<i our birth. tt
"Education been of
the major too of the South
African raci regime,"
continued. Africans, said,
are educated just enough to be
"good servants," and to
compete in the orld. Their
chools are inferior, ill­
equipped, and overcrowded
with acme 56e cbildren in one
classroom and one chef. A
Bantu education for example,
d. teaches the "impurity
of the African and uperiority of
the White man." Vet it is com­
pulsory and not free. Education
for Whites is compulsory also,
but free. A tremendo failure
and drop-out rate among
Africans, noted, bas been
created by the partheid
system.
IlOI4tcaUISl 51mBa Cited­
"Today in Sou Africa e
have a party that resembles the
Nazi party," declared.
" Africa ants a te free
of Africans and a race free of
African blood."
The azi party, she taught,
bad three programs to carry out
the extermination of the J .
1bose programs, she com­
mented, have distinct
similarities to hat' no hap­
pening to Africans in South
Africa by the Pretoria regime.
F' id, Je ere
demoralized and dehumanized
and through la s, ere
discriminated against and �
pressed. "The sam thing is
happening in South Africa - it
Africans feel inferior,"
noted.
Secondly, she continued,
there the forced removal of
Je from their hom , and
properties and placed in the
ghettos. "Thous nd and
thousands of Africans are
displaced in South Africa to live
in shanties," said.
And third, the holocaust, the
final e, although not reached
in South Africa yet, is nan' -
·bility. "People are dying
every day," she said.
charged m up-
porters .f apartheid ith
"deluding the orld" into
believing they're bringing an
end to aputbeid.
"The po er cente in the
W support partbeid,"
charged.
Vet, she said, in South Africa
anybody bo out against
apartheid is called a com­
munist. nus is done beca
Pretoria kno the est
"pbobia" to ards communism
. d. H r father' organiza-
tion, the ANC, n
prime .1
to comuiunist the
itially tried to peac
negotiate change fro
, 'd, but e
m t ith brutality. T
organization he declared,
She said that since coming to
the U.s. be has written her and
to d her that e erything the
stuI�1ts in the u.s. are doing in
terms of demonstrations to help
the struggle needed and
m contin .
"What do Africans in South
Africa want?" he a ked
rhetorically. "They ant tQ be
free. They ant to be treated
'human beings. They ant
political freedom. They only
wan what is theirs in the land
of their birth ... "
Divestment, said, is only
a moral statement.
"The battle i not over
yet .. J us n rest until apar-
the· d is destroyed "
During que tion-and-
period followin her lee-
ture, dela also mad
these points:
.General Motors "is no real­
ly" pulling 0\1 0 South Africa
because the company sold
to South African corporations.
Africans, she said ar .
for a total p ullout of G .
* Africans in South Africa are
not ell anned, and th est is
not prepared to ann th ,
although the U.S. should. "In
South Africa e're fi hting for
democracy and hwnan rights,"
declared. The Eastern
bloc she stated, given
them eapo .
• On the qu ion of th im­
prisorunent of children in South
Africa, said government
youth a threat because
they are in the vanguard of the
struggle. "They have sho d
killed a 10 of children." By
throwing them in prison,
said, th y think th y're topp­
ing the movement. "But
they're just creating more
. tan ."
* The ruggle in South Africa
struggle, s m
"It' a race
is ondary
u.s. CO 1ST P TV
CHIEF DIES
o 0 USSR - AJ-
though relatively fe
American ere ware of it,
for th p t 20 year the
head of the pro-Soviet Com­
munist party in America
a Blae man. Ho ever,
that man - 75-year-old
Henry in on - died 1
in the Soviet Union.
He h d gone there to ek
medical treatm nt. in on
h d been member of the
Communi party since
1931. During the mid-
1950' he rre ed by
U.S. and mi
Dalla, Tex In a
surpri move the Dalla
City oun il ha ppointed
a Bla man to the post f
City an e. 41-year-old
Richard Knight Jr. became
the fir t Black in Dalla
hi tory to h ld the po ition.
Knight' pp intment in
part, refle t demographi
chan e in the enerally
con rvative, busine s­
dominated city. Since 1960
the Bla population h
gro n from 1 0 to around
3� of the total. The city
al h a large Hispanic
population. any are look­
in for night to help
bridge the gap bet een
affluent mo t white rth
Dallas and the growing
Bla k and Hispani p pula-
tions. However Knight'
appointment come t a
tim when the Te a
economy i in ump.
Want to find
minority
businesses?
Go to
California
"
SOUTH
frica -
frican curity for­
eek began
ve n roundup of
I ho oPPO it sy
tern of white minority rule.
Tho arrested included
ctivi trade union
officials joumali and
community Ie er. The
ex t number of arre
could not be determined
or reported becau of
harsh ne government
era d n on th medi.
Under the new regul tion
virtually any ne on anti­
apartheid activitie mu be
approved by the govern-
W ASHI GTO - The Los
Angeles-Long Beach metropoli­
tan area and the state of Cali­
fornia lead the nation in the
number of minority and women­
owned busines s according to
the Cen us Bureau.
ichigan ranks 12th in the
total number of Blac owned
businesse. Michigan has 12 270
Black-owned firms,
Survey show that the Los
Angeles are had more than
200 000 minority and women­
o ned busine in 19 2.
Women 0 ned m [ority more
than 117 000 or 56 percent
of all such area busine s.
Per n of minority race and
Hispanics owned about 92 000
busines
Asian Pacifi Islander and
other racial minoritie were
the large group of such owners
in the Los Angeles area with
more than 3 ,000 busine
Thi wa more than 40 percent
of the area's minority-owned
busines . The Hispanic total
a about 30 000 busine
Blacks owned more than
23 500 an increa of some
9 000 inee 1977.
Los An eles was the major
metropolitan area with the high­
e t number of firms for each
busine s owner group. Los
Angeles h d nearly 77 percent
more Asian Pacific Islander
and other minority-owned busi­
ne s than the cond-ranked
U.S. are.
alifomia had nearly one-
. th of all minority and
women-owned busine s in th
United State total of more
than 600,000.