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The P nther
ne sp per i bac . The
P nther' recently publi h
ed their first edition, con-
ronting problems uch s
dru unemployment.
AIDS education, r cism
f cing tbe Blac com
munity. The purpo e of the
Black Panther p per i to
e t bli h an alternative to
the mainstream pre and,
_ along the way, enlighten
younger generation of
Black.
Landon Williams, one of
the editors, hope to "again
start a dialogue in this
country' about the tatus of
Black Americans."
The Blac Panther party
di ibanded in the mid-'70s
because of the FBI
abotag campaign. The
fir 1 , sue carrie profile
of many of the 28 Panthers
killed in shootouts, mostly
with ponce and feature let
ters from ex-Panthers who
are considered political
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The cover of the
recently revived Black
Panther newspaper.
Ju t Say No .
Sgt. Perry Mi tchell a
specialist in nuclear and
. chemical warfare just said
no. He refused to take part
in the Persian Gulf War. As
a res ul t, be bas been court-
, martialed and sentenced to
15 months in the stockade.
He has also been demoted
to private and given a bad
, conduct discharge.
Mitcbell was quoted as
aying "Sometimes y.ou
have to pay the price for
what you believe."
IRS: Take from
the poor I ave
the rich alon
In the recently sub-,
., mitted Bush Administra-
tion budget the Whit�
Hou e propo ed the IRS
, target it stringent audit
'. Dot on wealthy individuals
.. and companie (whose
lawyers can often stall a
case for years) but on mid
dle and lower income
people. The IRS was told to
lower the boom on the less
affluent who almost alway
, ,pay up without a protest,
thus providing the IRS
ith easy, immediate
revenue.
Church W nt
CHICAGO ('1. A)-The
Ev n Ii t Luther n Church
in Americ i parti ipating in
an ecumenic 1 effort to ad
dres r ci I nd economic for
ce eroding African-American
f milie . The Bl c k F mily
Mini t r i e Conference h
been cheduled for April 9-10
in Chicago at the Congres
Hotel.
The conference will bring
together historic African
American denominations with
tradition Ily white denomin
tion which expre some of
the arne conce rns abo ut the
20th Malcolm X -Day
Plan for the 20th annual
"Malcolm X D v: ob ervance
in Wa hington D.C. were an
nounced at the National Press
Club by Mr . Betty Shabazz,
widow of the slai n Freedom
Fighter. and Washington In
former newspaper publi her
Calvin Rolark. founder and
pre ident of the United Black
Fund.
This ye ar ts celebration will
be combined with the cam
paign for Statehood in the
District of Columbia and the
South African Support Project
for African Liberation, said
organizers Malik Edwards
and Charles Stephenson.
The mc n th-I o ng obser
vance will begin April 18 with
a Malcolm X Award Dinner
Tribute "To our shining Black
prince" followed by a series
of event climaxed by a
munication and dec) ion
m ing, 0 th t they can be
come e fective leaders."
Wier dded. Th lub", mi -
ion t tem nt i "The
lion
o h. Ip African-Americ n familie
tate of the Afric n-American
family, accordtng to Jo elyn
Bennett. director for child
nd family ministries in the
ELCA.
"We recognize some of the
me is ue and concern
mong the African-American
community that our churc he
(predominately white), as
well a their churches, need to
be conscious bout. We need
to evise a strategy toge tber
to work with the African
American communi ty," Be n
nett said.
The eight denominations
statehood rally at the hi -
t o r i c home of Fr e d r i k
Douglas in southeast
WaShington to begin the final
drive for � freedom for D.C.
citizens by any means neces
sary", Edwards emphasized ..
Malcolm X's 64th birthday is
May 19th.
Mr . Sh bazz aid she was
cheduled to speak in several
o th ere i tie sin c l ud i n g New
York City, C'hicago, Des
Moi nes, lA, and Madison, WI.
She urged followers of
Malcolm to broaden their
thinking to support human
rights everywhere and em
pha ized thai her husband was
not a violent 'man." The onl y
violence in which he was in
volved was his assassina tion
and he was the victim", she
said.
ATLANTA, GA, - The �a
tional Conference of Black
Mayors, Inc. (NCBM) will
bo t its 17th Annual Conven
ticn, April 24-�8, 1991, at the
Sheraton Cleveland City
Centre Hotel in Cleveland
Ohio.
NCBM i. expecting a
majority or the nations 326
Black mayors, city council
members, other national
elected officials and cor-'
porate represe ntanves to at
tend this year's meeting.
Workshops and other ses
sions will focus on this year's
convention theme, "Black
Mayors on the Cutting Edge
Black Mayors to meet
of Change." �he Honorable L:
Douglas Wilder, Governor,
Commonwealth of Virginia;
Dr. Virginia Floyd, Qeorgia
Dept. of Human Resources,
and Dr. Benjamin Hooks are
the convention's keynote
peaker . Civil Rights Ac
tivist, Harry Bc lafonte , will.
be honored at the-"Tribute to
a Black American" Dinner.
NCBM will feature two
African Dance Troupes, the
Gambia 'Cultural Theatre and
Dance Company, and the Na
tional Dance Troupe of the
Republic of Burundi, to enter
tain the conference attendees.
particip ting in the con
ference will be the African
Methodist Epi cop I Church,
A.M.E. Zion Church, Chri -
tian Methodi t }S'i cop I,
Pre sb yte r ia n Church (USA),
United Methodi t Ch u r c ,
Chri tian Church (Di cip le
of Christ), American Baptis t
Church. USA and the ELCA.
"THERE I A fJ urry of ac
tivity that has orne people
starting to examine some of
the issue and part of the
African-American family a
they relate to religious or-
ganization well lookin
t what church c n do to be
more upportive of Afrie n
American amilie," Bennett
aid.
Conference pi nner note
that unemployment, poverty
and other pres ures are
having "dramatic negative im
pact" on African-American
families. They cite tatistics
showing that, while 25 year
ago 75 percent of African
American h o u e h o ld in
eluded two parent. in 1990
only 37 percent of African
American h o us e ho lds in-
B,lack Colleg
$.87 million in
Top Alumni Honored
Special to Micigan Citizen
Award of $87.8 million in
grants to 93 predominantly
Black institutions of higher
learning under the
Strenghtening Historically
Black Colleges and Univer
sities (HBCUs) program was
annouced recently by the
United States Department of
Education.
The increased, new annual
grants were di closed as the
National A o c i a t i o n for
Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education he ld its 16th Con-
- Ie re nce on Black' in Higher
Education �ith approximately
3,500 participants in
Wa hingron, D.C.
Dr. Leonard L. Haynes III,
assistant secretary for
p o s ts e con dar y education,
commented on the continuing
need for the support of the
HBCUs during his remarks at
an opening c s ion of the
NAFEO conference.
"These 'institutions have
Io n g and distinguished his
tories of e rv ice to African
American , and as a matter of
national policy, we are deter
mined to st r e n g t he n their
programs, their management
and their efforts toward finan
cial security."
HBCU GRANT . are
awarded to institution e tab
lished before 1964 with a
principal mi 'ion of cd ucat
ing Black Amc r ic a ns , Alloca
tion' arc b asc d on a formula
that includes the number of
PelJ Grant stude m recipients.
the number of graduates lind
the percentage of students en
rolled in graduate degree
programs in which Blacks are
underrepresented.
Funds are used to establish
or strengthen physical plans,
financial management and
. I
eluded two parent.
The conference, ccording
to the pi nner ,i de igned
"to rally and equip Blac
church leader for their
central role change a ent
in the wider ociety nd s the
up p o r t ystem for Black
familie ."
Bennett cited ch nges in
extended familie a an ex
ample of the deterioration of
orne support y tern. "We
have ... Afric n Americ 01
who have been moved from
where their roots and family
Continued on Pale 12
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Search on for Freedom Riders
The cour .e of American
hi tory was abruptly changed
in 1961 a busloads of
Afr'ican-Americans and their
allies rode from variou
po ints in the United States
into theueep south, d mand
ing n end to a three hundred
year old system of segrega
tion.
The Freedom Ride, as
these journeys were called,
electrified the nation. This in
exorable tr ug g le for full
poJi tical and civil rights for
African-American was met
by the violent attacks of angry
- mobs, and the more
d iplomattc attacks of govern
ment agencies.
De te r m i n e d that the ig
nificance of thi 'water hed
event not be lost from the an
n a Iso f A mer i can h i to r y ,
civil right leaders and
worke r from the ixtie wi 11
j 0 i n 'tV i the 1 e c ted 0 ff i cia I ,
educa tors. and human rights
activi t from aero the
country in a Commemorative
Conference to be held in Jack-
on Mississippi, July 18-21,
1991.
Civil right ve te r ans-e-
James Farmer. Bob Moses. the
Freedom Singer, freedom
riders, Congres man John
Lewis, and others-will join
wit h e d u cat 0 r , business
leader, elected official and
human rights activist from
acres the country to develop
and present models that or-
ganization nd individual
can implement in their own
communitie .
CONFERENCE planner
are making a concerted effort
to reach a many of the 350
per on who became a part of
the Freedom Ride s po -
ible.
They, and others wanting
more information about the
conference, should cont ct
Conference Coordinator, Fr.
Doris Terry Williams t P.O.
Box 879, Oxford, orth
C rolina 27565-0879, or call
(919) 690-1525 (daytime) or
1-800-848-6447 (evening ).
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