u nt u e marke ing ills to
h Ip communi y figh viole ce
DBTIlOrr - Three 16 year 0 d
stu4�lS &om Detroit' Martin
Luther • High School used
the marketing skills they
Ieamed. � to help their
comm •
The three ate Nakeasha
Sanders, icolei McMillion and
Charmecka Boulware, 0 are
apart of the Distributors
Education Club of America,
(DECA) an organization with
ch pter in mo t public and
high schoo which show mem­
bers ho to plan, organize, an
use mar eting princip es,
The three teens decided to
enter a contest sponsored by the
Seven Up company, in which
youngsters undertoo a project
using marketing principles to
aid the community.
·We decided what's more
relevant to youth than SOSAD
( Detroit rea organization
formed to prevent teen
. olence) 1" anders stated. So,
they et up SOSAD Action
Week.
The t ee eat to t 0
�leme 8ry schools, Dustfield
and Hampton two 'middle
school Whitney Young,
Hampton, and their own Martin
Luther KiDg to encourage stu­
dent to raise money for
SOSAD. To motivate the stu­
dents, they promised a pizza
party for the the 0 der slide
the money and a cupcake
party for the winning elemen-
tary school _
They re involved not only
in raising funds for SOSAD, but
letting young people know its
m ge of correcting condi­
tio which lead to vi�.
Through their efforts, the
Martin Luther King Drama
Club wrote and put on play
about a young girl who died as a
result of violence and came
bac as a spirit warning her
friends that it could happen to
them.
They also let JOUDI people
DISTRIBUTION OF FAMiIJES BY TYPE, RACE. AND
HISPANIC ORIGIN OF HOUSEHOLDER: ARCH 1989
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60
o
10 20 30 40 50
Percent
. or::: P .'sons of Hispanic Origin may be �
any roce.
SOURCE: U.S. 9urfou of the Census
DEl.ACK
� HISPANIC
83
70 80
90 100
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Happen'
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8J LaiTy A. SUD
WASHINGTO , DC (NNPA)
- Honored an OutstandiDg
Woman of Achievement",
pop television talk show
host Oprah Wmfrey served
mistre&s of ceremonies in
presenting public service
a rds to 15 African­
Americans in the Salute To
Black Women Who Make It
Happen- dinner sponsored by
the National Council of Negro
Women in Washington, DC.
Two Detroit women were
among the five finalists.
Clementine Barfield, founder
and executive director of
S.O.S.A.D, and Charlene
Johnson, vice-pre ident of
REACH, Inc., Detroit. Also
Myrtle Davis, president of the
Sl Louis (MO) Health Center;
Marjoirie Joyner, pioneer
beauty culturist nd civic
leader, Chicago; and Ruth
Poole, vo unteer form the dis­
advantage, Durham, NC.
But Oprah aim 0 e the
show from the five tophcnoress
she began the program by
telling the glittering black . e
and sequined garbed
audience ... "I am one Blac
man born in Kosciusko, Mis-
. . ppi. It is about 70 miles from
Jackson. It's about 22 mi s
from Greenwood. It's about 18
miles from where everybody
goes to catch the train. But it is
just a hop, skip and a jump from
the Nile, Kosciusko Is .. .I am one
about the SOSAD p
they cared Detroit,
. would not or sell drugs or
carry a gun. Students re given -
pledge card to send to the
SOSAD office 453 Martin
Luther King Dme, Room '1lJ7,
Detro·t,Mich. 4tr1JJ7.
The youngsters were
honored in a resolution by the
Detroit City Council while
SOSAD warded a plaque and
presented certificates to each of
the schools involved.
Sander said she feels such
project encourage young Black
people -seeking success in the
busines world to bring their
skills back to the Blac com­
munity.
"As we became involved with
SOSAD, we enjoyed it." she
said.
The sponsor of the Martin
Luther King branch of DECA
and a teacher in marketing and
accounting, Julia Hunter, ex­
pressed pride in the students
work.
WHrrE
3
Black woman and I have been
around a long time ... •
Taking their cues from
Oprah, several of the NCNW
award recipients also -admitted
tbeywere born in Mississippi al­
though they were cited for their
ctivity in their current home
towns. -
The awards program in un­
like any other achievement
recognition because nominees
come directly from the public by
being submitted through all
NCNW's232 ·community b ed
sections" and 32 affiliated or­
ganizations, said Dr. Dorothy
Height, president. The
ceremony climaxed the
Council's three-day, 44th na­
tional conventio
The other, nominees in­
cluded Helen Austin, social
worker, San Antonio; Laura
Bush, executive director, In­
stitute for Community Educa­
tion, Bluffton, SC; J effie
Frazier, principal, Hamden,
Coon; Dr. Deborah Hyde-Jack­
son, neuro urgeon, Encino,
CA; Dorothy M upervaor,
Little PI er Children's Ser­
vice, Kew Gardens, NY; Thel­
ma Nelm , founder/director, -
Missioll P ible, Germanto
TN; Joe Ella Rice, volunteer,
San Antonio; Grace Stephen­
son, director Rent-A- Teen,
Fairfax, VA; and Juanita White,
member the South Carolina
House of Representatives, Har­
deeville, SC.
ore
omen head up families
-The number of Black and
white families - maintained- by
women where no husband is
present has grown in the 198Os,
according to urvey results
rele ed today -by the Com­
merce Department's Census
Bureau.
The total number of such
Black familie ro e at an
average annual rate of 2A8 per­
cent from 1980 to 1989, while
tb rate for comparable white
famille 2.1 percent. The
annual r te of increase for com­
parab Hispanic famjlies
6.7perce .
Bla families maintained by
men increased &om 2.S mil-
lion to 3.2 million, while the
white and Hispanic totals rose
to 7.3 million and 1.1 million.
Forty-four percent of all
Blac families, 23 percent of
Hispanic families, and 13 per­
cent of white families were
maintained in 1989 by a female
with no husband present. The
1980 proportions were 40 per­
cent, 20 percent, and U per­
cent.
Black married-couple
families comprised half 0 aU
Black famjlies in 1989, down
from 56 percent in 1�. The
1989 P oporti of such . e
f milies (83 percent) nd
. . .. (71�nt)
also were below their 1980
levels. _
The number of Blac
families maintained by male
householder with no wife -
present h grown from 256,000
to 464,000 thus far in the
decade, an average increase of
6.6 percent per year.
All Black families tot ed 7.4
milli n in 1989, increasing at an
annual rate of 2.0 percent or 1.2
million families from 1980.
Hispanic and white families
grew t annual rates of 5.2 per­
cent and 0.9 perceat,
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