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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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