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MlChip Citiun Reporter
ClDCAOO - Operation
PUSH IaUDched an attack
on the billion dollar athletic
shoe industry nd the fir t
opo ent in the battle for equity
• N"1ke, Inc.
The battl is based on the
"Kindem Theory, - explained
Rev. Ed Riddic to a PUSH
meeting August 4. "This. our
community. we 0 it. We are
kings of our dominion and Black
America in 1989 spent $286 bil
lion ith the athletic shoe in
dustry:
Rev. Riddick aid $1 million
a day is 'spent by African
Americans on ike products.
After a recent two hour
meeting with the largest athletic
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the civil rights organization
came out of the meeting citing
alle ed inequities.
e asked them if they had
any African-Americans on the
company's board of directors.
They said no. We ed them if
they advertised with African-
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NBUFfocu e
schools
By Dtnick C. Le .
Michigan Citizen nporur
mit. Augu t 2-5, at Wayne
State Univer. i ty.
The BUF W' nts curricula
in math. science ocial
� tudic . and th art to give
credit io th role of African
and AI ncan Americans.
The convention's ton w
et wh histon n Ander on
. Implementation of an
African centered curnculum
in the nation public chools
was the focu of the ational
Black United Front (NBUF)
during th ir 11 tb Annual Con
vention and Educational Sum-
State of Black Michigan: It's 'time
C L� .
iclligan ilizen reporter
Thc newly i ued seventh
edition of "The State of BI c
Michi an: .. 1990" painted a
very grim picture for Blac
economically and 0 iaJly.
The report . y political
g in of th I;l�t decade have
not been Iran lated into
economic and. ocial progre .
If. MI hi an i to avoid per
m nem: jeopardy. the report
ay . th rare BI c citize
mu. t "pro � lor quality."
According (frlh rep rt, the
number 01 Black elected offi
ci I lh J te
70 s and R(),�. i th bl cks
holding 316 (1.6 percent) of
the tate.' 19.403 elective of
fices. Blac s held 245 elected
uate offices in 1976.
rccting BI ck unemployment.
The report indicated the
Blac -whitc unemployment
gap widened during Governor
Jame Blanchard's
Democrati adm irus rrat ion
(1983-88); with umemploy
mcnt reduced proportionally
more for white than Black .
This trend i ta ing place
even a tate Black. conti nue
their high upport for the
Democratic party.
irm in ve
e cltie
n t the Black
repre entatio in the I bor
force of e a h ci ty. The
analy i ho ed Detroit
be i ng eve el y under-
rcpre ented b 40-plu per-
I
I 1988. MI higan had 93
BI ck female elected offi
cial , ran 109 the state fifth in
thi c tegory.
Black official upporrcd
ub t nti I incrca c in tate
pending in the areas of civil
rights and ed ucauon.
Many of th Blac state of
fici I expre. sed di appoint
ment in the Blanchard
dmini trauon effort t cor-
.·OK BOTII ALE and
female . the Bla k unemploy
ment rate wa about three
time the white rate dunng the
centage point.
• Accordi ng to the r port. the
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