LANSING--Minority-owned
businesse are receiving less
than their fair share under the
state's certification program for
minority- and women-owned
businessesd, State Representa­
tive Alma G. Stallworth (D­
Detroit), Chair of the Michigan
Legislative Black Caucus tes­
tified Nov. 2.
"Certification is supposed to
. direct a fair proportion of state
purchasing to fum that are
woned by women and
minorities, but the process is not
adequately serving minority
firms. The House Subcommit­
tee on Small Business should
direct their attentions to this
problem," told mmit­
tee members, who are inves­
tigating the certificating
process.
Contractural opportunities
ith state government still
remain for the most part elusive
to Blac "Stallworth testified.
" ... Michigan's purchasmg
policies, although less racially
flagrant, are still uncon-
cionable."
Rep. Stallworth said that in
1986, tate departments spent
only $14 million with 201
minority films, bile spendding
$74 million wiht 236 women­
owned busir leSSIes
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y1or, TraDsAfrl ; and ather Casimir Paul-
z
DETROIT - "We vehement­
ly object to the airing of this film
we would object to a film
hin
C.
NNPA
W ying
that ne r earch by his or­
ganization hows that the
Republic n p rty faces n
"enormo image prob mil and
yet has "enormou oppor­
tunities" within the Black com­
munity, Joint Center for Politi­
cal Studies President Eddie .
Williams recently released a set
of provocative findings at a
luncheon of Black Republicans.
B ed on a survey of 1800
randomly chosen Americans,
900 whites and 900 blacks, WIl­
liams re aled that only 17% of
II Blac s believe the
Republican Party cares about
their problems.
Co tlnuedon
produced by the Ku Klux Klan
on Black History or a film on
Je�sh }{utory produced by
Adolf Hitler."
With those ords a bro d
based coalition of civic,
religious, political, community
and civil rights organizations
called on WKBD-Channel SO to
op its plans to show Shaka
Zulu", a five-part series
produced by the South African
E
gro
•
o
Broadcasting Corporation
(SABC).
At a press conference o.
12, the coalition also called 0
corporate sponsors to drop their
financial support of "this r .
program."
SPO SORS LISTED in
press release handed out by the
protesters included: Mac­
Donalds, Berry Drugs and
o
poses bu
Schlitz Malt Liquor (Stroh).
e viewing public is being
ed to tune out the movie
which has sparked similar
pro ests across the country.
The film portrays Blacks as
vages, viol at a United a­
tions boycott, and amounts to
propaganda coming from a
country where the press is
barred from reporting anything
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By th Meade
CapilllJ News Service
LANSING--Federal budget
cuts in education could hurt
Blacks and other minorities, but
a national organization is taking
steps to help.
Michigan State U Diversity
President John DiBiaggio has
indicated that the American
Council on Education (ACE)
will fight against federal budget
cuts to education programs for
10 mcome students.
In a news conference at MSU
last eek, DiBiaggio, a member
of ACE, called cuts that would
result from the Gramm-Rud­
man-Hollings deficit reduction
plan detrimental to the future of
higher education.
DiBiaggio blamed the
Reagan Administration for set­
ting u.s. education hac a few
steps. With the presidential
election coming up next year,
though, he said he hopes to see
that trend come to an end.
"My hopes are that whoever
is elected, that candidate will
have a broader view of educa­
tion," he said.
The cuts in the .. educa­
tion budget, which could take
place by ov. 20, include aslash
of almost 350,000 from a
program aimed at helping I w
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