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Success is no s ranger
to oses Findley
By Larry A. Still
NNPA News Service
WASHINGTO
(NNP A) - The nation's ex­
panding Bla -owned
ne�paper publishers were
urged to demonstrate greater
influence and power in serving
their communities as they
elected new officers at their
47th annual convention in
Detroit, June 17-W ..
Over 200 participants at­
tended the four days of ses­
sions of the ational
ewspaper Publishers Associa­
tion hos ed by the Michigan
Chronicle and Michigan
Citizen weekly ne papers t
the Westin Hotel
Top speakers included
Mayor Coleman Young,
eolumnis Carl Ro
e
lac
need
Pre
e
rd oses Findley
Jr n -- 0 the job, in
the community, d soon, in a politi­
cal career.
oses F"mdlcy 0 chieved 100-
pi percent of . goals director'
of the On-The-Job- Training
Program fo the etropolitan
Detroit Youth Founda' on has also
set his sights high as he prepares to
launch political career.
A Detroit native, now living in
outhfield, Findley has decided to
run for that urb' city council in
1988, and intends to make . ory in
the proeesss, he would be the
first African American to do so uc-
y.
,
Columni t, Ju��e tell �u�li �er�
alleged to ha e raped orne­
bod . But till ther i a fan­
tasti ne d for the Black
Pre .
Rowan related the need of
the Blac Pre to the civil
righ era.' The civil right
movemen ha been in limbo
for a numb 0 ar. 0
Blac peop don't kno that
3.8 million more Blac p. ple
live in poverty than wa the
ca e 6 years ago.
He then made comments
about Japan Prim ini t r
aka one, who had to gi e a
public apology to America for
aying ha the rea on th
country canno comp te i
because 'of the lack of kil of
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"motiva or" Les Bro and
Federal Judg Alcee Hastings
They joined major cor­
porate spok.epersons and ad­
vertising representatives in
o ead
o p
supporting "Bla Press" ef­
forts to focus on ey
economic, educational, health
and political issues in their
areas.
Patricia Thomas,
publisher of the au ee
Community Journal, was over­
whelmingly elected as the first
woman president of the
NNP A to succeed Christopher
H. Bennett, publisher of the
Seattle edium and Tacoma
Citizen.
Other elected officials
among three slates of can­
didates re.l A
publishers Levi Henry, Fort
Lauderdale (F1a.) Westside
Gazette, fir vice-p esident;
Thomas H. W· Daily
Challenge (Broo yo), econd
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Blac people have not yet
arrived and therefore the via­
bilityofthe Blac Pre i vital
to their very en tence. That
w the entiment expre ed
by one of Blac America'
mo t distingui ed joumalis
and federal judge. ational
columnis Carl Rowan and U.
S. District Judge Alcee Ha -
ting made their commen at
the 47th Annual ational
e spaper Publi her A so­
ciation Convention.
"In the old day," aid
Ro an "Blac peopl got in
the ne paper only if the
stole a chicken or they ere