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By Ii od S.
sIIIg R.porler
DETROIT - Fresh off n
airplane from Florida, R ul
Muhammad appe red radiant.
Obviously in good spirits,
the alion of I lam minister
ho is istant to leader Loui
rra a, ddreued a crowd
of more than 100 people at
uhammad's Mo ue II, lo-
cated 0 Wyoming near
Fenkel1 Avenue.
Ref�rring to Loui Farra
n. head mini ter of the a
tion ·of Islam. Muhammad
talked bout a Farrakhan
"V! hington Post" imervie .
Po t Reporters asked Far
rakhan ho he could insist that
whites were conspiring against
African America .
F ARRAKHA responded,
AIDS, crack-cocaine. the Tus
keegee experiment. where
African American men were
unknowingly injected with
yphllis - these combined
with several other factors.
Muhammad told the cro d
he w tched a documentary
produced in 1956 about the ef
fect of drug u e and he
believed. drugs were expert
m nted on ra so it could be
known exactly what would
h ppen if people were intro- '.
duced to them.
"This wicked thing,"
Health cia
Mercy Memorial Medical
Center, St. Joseph and Mercy
Center, Benton Harbor an
nounced their chedule for
cI S/clinics offered Cor the
month of June. For further in
formation aDd to preregister
call 927-5297, unle other-
ise noted.
'1 e by CI
Sunday, JUDe 3. 1 :30-3 p.m. at
Mercy emorial Medical
Cen ere
R- atal tritio:
Monday, June 4. from 6-7
p.m. at Mercy Memorial
Medical Center.
_ Brea tfeedi CI
Monday, June 4, from �-9
p.m. at Mercy Memonal
Medical Center.
_ Exercl e, ReI xauon
and Breathing: Tue day, June
5 nd 12; Monday, June 11
and 18 from 7-9 p.m. at tbe
YWCA. St. Jo eph.
_ Ex treat Oas-
es: Thursdays, June 7, 14, 21
and 28, t 7 p.m. at the
YWCA, St. Joseph.
_ F coat en:
Tue day, June'19, from 7-9
p.m. at the YWCA, St.
Joseph.
_ C re at Birt
Daytime nd evening classes
scheduled needed. Birt}ling
cl are free of charge for
couple delivering at Mercy
Muhammad said. "Thi
serio ."
Continuing. 'Muh mm d
said African Americans need
to be more informed.
"You need a teacher not a
preacher," he ide "Preaching
only pacifies ,the situation
where teaching en bles you
to change t ituaitoo."
PREACHERS OFTEN
TELL c-hurch member to
hope for something better in
the after life and nothing now.
Mubamm d aid.
Thi buy into the f ct that
most African American stu
dents bandon their community
after they complete their col
lege education. he explained.
If they come back to the
African American community
and contribute either their
skill, cademics in the form of
tutoring or money, people'
morale would increase.
"This is what we need," he
said, adding because the con
spiracy of AIDS and �rack
cocaine is no longer JU t a
conspiracy it's an act.
African American leader
ship has failed, he said, adding
his role has been egatively
labeled uch as Rasul's father
Elijah Muhammad's and Mal-
colm X.
"You can't tell me I teach
hate becau e I point out the
hate that hate produced,"
Muhammad said.
es offered
Memorial Medical Center. St.
Joseph.
SIIARE Support
Group: Tuesday, June 5. at 7
p.m. at Mercy Memorial
Medical Center. Call 983-
8187 for more information.
Healt y Weig f:
Begins June 5, Tuesday even
ings at the Green ood Profes
ional Building.
Ca eer S p rt
Gro p: Wednesdays, June 13
nd 27, from 1:30-2:30 p.m.
in the Mercy Center Family
Waiting Room. Call 927-5237
for more information.
C rdio
Scree g: Thur day, June
14. from 6:30-9:30 a.m. at the
YWCA, St. Joseph. Cost is
SI9.00. Call 983-1561 for
more inform lion.
- C 01 erol eree ia :
Wednesday, June 20, from 9
a.m.-l p.m. and 4-6 p.m. in
the Mercy emorial Medical
Center Lobby, 51. Jo eph.
Co Ii $7.00.
- B Ca eer Support
Group: Thursday, June 21. at
7 p.m. at the First Congre -
tional Church, St. Joseph.
CIIrdilOYiISC1I11 r
SC1'UIIID2: ednesday, June
27, from 6-9:30 a.m. at the
YMCA, Holly ood Rd., St.
Joseph. Co t is $19.00. Call
429-crl27 for more
information
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S. Lu e
mark
pa tor _
anniversary
BJ Mal'J G J
St. Luke Bapti t Church
wit be celebrating their Pastor
and Wife, Rev. and MIl. lsa c
Moffett's 5th Anniversary on
Sunday, June 3 at 3 p.m.
Their special guests ill be
e Je alem Baptist
Churcb and their pastor and
other cburches of the city.
The public is invited to at-
teoe!. Rev. c Moffett is the
p tor.
May 27-J
�1
John Wesley A.M.E. Zion
Church ill be celebrating
their Pastor and wife, Rev.
and Mrs. Harry Spigner's 5th
Year Appreciation Celebra
tion, beginning Tuesday, May
29.through Friday, June 1, at
7 p.m. nightly.
The Pastoral Banquet and
Church Fello hip will be
Saturday night, June 2, at
6:30 p.m. ncte are $10.
Their special guests for
Sunday afternoon will be the
Mesiab Baptist Cburch �f
Grand Rapids and their p
tort Rev. Qifton Rhode .
Rev. Harry Spigner is the
host p tor.
United Church funds ISE.
project in Benton- Harbor
The Uni ed Churcb Board
for Homeland Mini trie and
the National Mi ion Ann of
the United Church of Christ.
bas made a $2,000 grant to
Benton Harbor'S eigbbor
hood Information and Sharing
Excbange (NlSE), according
to Executive Director,
Richard Ray.
Ray said the grant. hich
will upport NlSE's ad
mini trative costs, i given
particularly as an undergird
ing of tbeir ork on behalf of
10 -incom homeowners.
The board' ction was ar
ranged with the support of the
Rev. Paul R. Peters, secretary
for local churche: in com-
.munity mi ion and lb Rev.
. Phillip Newell. hared
secretary for community or
ganizing for tbe United
. Ctlurch and the Presbyterian
Church. U.S.A.
Community organizing is
'one of the major focuse of
NISE, Ray said. In ddition,
NISE bas worked closely with
local United Cburch of Christ
Congregatio in community
mission.
He id tbe trongest link
bet een NISE and United
Church Congregatin i the
United Church Benton Harbor
Neighborhood �roject � a
coali tion of five Uni ted
Church Congregation and
one Christian Church (Dis
ciple ) congreg tion to up
port low income bomeownez:s
in the maintenance of their
propertie and the stabl ization
of an at-risk neighborhood
Participating churches in
the eighborhood Projects are
First Congregational UCC of
Benton Harbor, First Con
gregalional UCC, Pilgrim
Congregational UCC,. _St.
Peters UCC, Zion Evalgehcal
UCC, and Rivervie Par
Cbri tian Church (Di ciple
of Christ) all of St. Jo ph.
The Rev. Richard H. Taylor is
chair of the eighborhood
Projects.
In addition, one of the two
eminarians from the Chicago
at Firsl Congregational UCC
in Benton Harbor i igeed
to work witb the NlSE Youth
Task Force.
NISE's Monthly Forums
and their annual meetings, as
will other meetings. have
been held at First Congrega
tional UCC in Benton Harbor.
Al 0, many individual and
familie from a variety of
United Church Congregations
have helped and supported
NlSE in many different way,
aid Ray.
Micbael Green i President
ofNISE.
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The Usher Department of
Spring Street Baptist Church,
will be sponsoring a shopping
trip to the South Lake Mall in
Maryville, Indiana, on S tur
day, June 9.
The bus will leave the
church at 7 a.m. and will
return at appro imately, 7
p.m. Cost is $25.00. For fur
ther inform lion contact,
Sister Gate , 722-2079 or .
Sister Simmons at 773-8414.
Dezell Allen. Jr. will be
celebrating his 4th birthday
on Saturday, June 2, witb a
party at borne with his family
and a few fri nds.
He ill have ice cream and
ca e, hot dog and other
goodie . They al 0 will be
playing g me .
Duell is lh on of Gle da
DOoley a�d 0 zell Allen S
ie
100
Delta Founder
W ASHI GfON, D.C. -- Bertha.
Pit Campbell, one of the 22
founders of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc., died April 2 in
Seattle of pneumonia. She was
100 years old.
Campbell was one of the two
Delta founder still living. The
remaining Sorority founder .
N 0 i Sewell Richardson of
W ingtonville, N.Y. Delta
Founder Campbell and
Richardson, along with 20 other
young college women, fo�ded
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Howard University in
W hington D.C. on Jan. 13,
1913 a public service or
ganization.
The Delta founder first
public act w to participate in
the, historic women' suffrage
march in the nation's capital on
March 13, 1913,just two months
after the Sorority' inception.
In 1981 Campbell, at age 92,
led 10 000 Delta member in a
, .
march down Wa hington,
D.C.' Penn ylvania Avenue to
commemor te the' founders
participation in the suffrage
march.
PAST ATIO AL
IDE ona H. Bailey
of Seattle recalled how Founder
Campbell ctuaDy walked in the
march, refusing to ride in the
limousine which was provide.
Before retiring, Founder
a
Campbell worked with the eat
tle YWCA and w charter
member of the Chri tian
Friends for Racial Equality, an
int r-racial organization which
promote under tanding
among r cial groups.
An out tanding tudent,
Campbell turned down
scholarship from Colorado Col
lege to accept one from Howard
University. Upon graduation
he taught for two year at
Topeka (Kansas) Industrial In
stitute. Campbell has been
honored with numerous
ward.
In 1917, she married Earl
Campbell and they were the
parents of a son, Earl, Jr. Her
husband and son both died in
the 1950s.
Bertha Pitts Campbell w
born June 30, 1889 in Winfield,
Kansas. Shortly after her birth,
her parents, Ida and H�bbar�
Sydney Pitts, moved their fami
ly to Montrose, Colorado.
Campbell i urvived by a
nephew Herbert H ris of Den
ver Color do, niece Vessie
Br' on and great niece Vi
Lyo of Lo Angel ,Califor
nia, and a ister-in-law, Myrtle
Pitts and family of e ttle.
Delt Sigma The Sorority,
founded 77 year ago by 22 col
le e women, has no grown to
175,000 members with over 800
ch pter in the U.S. and abroad.
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