NATIO AL CHAM.PIONS- Highland Park Community Hllh Scbool' "ParU Be rs"
captured back-to-baek national titles In parliamentary procedure, last month, In KI Immee,
Florida. T e' even member team members are Vlcent Bryant, eated, and left to rl ht, Dara
Jobnson, Anqulnette Hughe , Candace Hunter, Le Ite Kilgore, Sylvia Looney and Key
Cbr topher. Bry nt, wbo affectionately call blm elf Kina, w dethroned, John on ld, when be
explained the te m' ucce with the e no bral, Just fact word: "With aU tbe e women on the
te • I (t "Parll nil) can't help but be. eee ." (P oto by N. eott) .'
Complaints
by DE
C .L WI
.
In
state remain constant
brut lity i n tionwide nd lip rt
of the routine" of police wor .
De troi t police officer w
ch r ed with m n I ughter
April 23 for lledgedly hootin
u pect he I y on the round
being fri ked.
The u pect wa hot in the
b ck Nov. 26 fter he nd
nother man were topped by of
ficer looking for rmed robbery
u pect .
Wat on ay the ca e i not
under inve tig tion at the gen
cy becau e no one filed com
plaint, but he did indic te the
NAACP wa lnve ti ting two
other ca e of Hedged police
brutality, one which he y
w definitely race related.
SltlgWriUr
Report of police h r ment
in the t te have rem ined con-
tant over the pa t five yea ,
according to Fred Horn of the
Michigan Civil Right Depart
ment (MCRD).
Of 6,282 complaint filed
with the MCRD from 1985-90,
complaint concerning law en
forcement ver ged about 1.5
percent of the total.
From 1985-86, 77 complaint
were filed, from 1986-87, 83,
from 1987:-88, 106, from 1988-
89, 89, from 1990-91, 74, nd
this year' present total i 43
complaint ..
Horn indicated the com
plaint range from unfair ticket
ing to verbal and phy ic I
abuse.
The wide publicity given to
police brutality in the beating of
Rodney King by Lo Angele
police officers thi year, has
focused attention on the ac
tivitie of police departments
acros the nation, and Michigan
police departments are not the
exception.
NAACP DETROIT Chapter
Executive Director Joanne Wat-
n aid tbe pr tern of 1
o
ro
By Ron e el
CO"t pontknt
People doing bu ine in the
State Plaza Buildin in
Downto n Detroit, where tate
busine in conducted, will be
Mov ment on to change govern ment prioritie
by DERRICK c. LEWIS
. Staff Writer
being activist's since 1948.
Celeste told them defense
spending hurts the community
and "co ts us our competitive
ness" in the world, by focusing
research and development in
the defense industry in tead of
the private sector.
He said people tend to look
at defense cuts as a threat,
when instead they should 100
at converting defense money to
private uses.
SAYING THE MIDWEST
suffered tragically during the
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Changing federal budget
priorities and promoting
economic conver ion from a
military to a peacetime
economy' was what former
Ohio Governor Richard
Cele te spoke on during the
Jobs, Peace and Justice Con
ference last Saturday, at the
University of Detrot.
Sponsored by the Jobs,
Peace and Justice Coalition,
over 100 people, mostly over 50
years of age, attended the con
ference. Some could boast of
Michigan
Speaker Le i Do(lai
recently appointed p.
'Alma Stallworth, D·
Detroit, to the COD
fer ence committee on
automotive i urance
reform.
StaUworth will be part
of ix member commit
tee compo cd 0 three
ember each, from both
the House a d the
Senate.
The committee will
develop amendments for
the Essenti Insurance
Ac and ub °t it to the
o e and Senate for a
WASHINGTON; D.c.-Despite
some modest improvements
over Reagan admini tration
pclicies, President Bu h has led
the nation away from equality of
opportunity, failing to offer con
sistent moral leader hip and at
time fanning the flames of ra
cial intolerance.
That js a concl usion of LOST
OPPORTUNITIES: The Civil
Rights Record of the Bush Ad
ministration Mid-Term, relea ed
at a news conference here April
17th b the Citizens' Comml -
fon'" Civil Rights, a bl-par
tlsan' group of fourteen former
federal government official .
The 251-page tudy was
developed with upport from the
N. Charle Ander on and Joann Wat 0 brought Urban
League and NAACP concern to the conference.
Ford- and Rockefeller Founda
tions.
"After two years, it is clear
tha t deali ng effective l y wi th
inter-group tension and con
flicts has not been a top priority
for the Bush admini tration,"
'aid Arthur Flemming, Chair of
the Ci tize ns ' Commission and
former Chair of the U.S. Com-
mis ion on Civil Right .
"Opportunity to set the nation
on the right course ha been 10 t.
In fact, by injecting the false
claim of 'quota ' in vetoing the
Civil Right Act of 1990, the
Pre ident escalated racial ten-
ions in the nation."
LOST OPPORTUNITIES
u
REPORT:, BUSH LOST OPPORTUNI IES, SPLIT RACES
walking around homele s
people and their upporters,
prote ting tate policie , which
they charge dd to homele s
ne and the uffering of the
poor.
The Union of the Homele
and upporting organfz tions
have staged a it-in in ide the
door of the State Plaza Build
ing.
Repre eritatives ofthe protest
vow they will not leave until
they get a re pon e to demand
the t te re tore service ,
which were drastic lly cut back,
uch a emergency needs,
medicaid, and gr nts to
provider of ervice .
Noting that ocial ervice
cut in March have made it im
po ible for people to pay their
rent, prote ters are calling for a
moratorium on emergency evic
tions.
They are al 0 demanding no
further cut in the ocial service
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commend improvement in
voting right enforcement, a
more expan ive enforcement of
the fair hou ing laws, and Bu h
admini tration upport for the
American with Disabilities
Act.
It give . the President high
mark for appointing highly
See REPORT, Pig. 18
JA I ORLE : "1t�s
fine if they're willing to ta e
the r e ponsibility and go.
against what everyone el e
thin ."
ORGA : "If the
elll e tablished
b c ground, I think it's all
I thin it should work