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prof'
YORK- Remark
m e by UNY Profe or
Leon rd J cffric. . t . t te
. pon ored African
A ric n Fe tiv I I st
month re promptin out­
cries from the Jewish com­
m tty for the profe or to
be fired.
n the con trover ial
peech, Jeffries said that
"rich Jews were behind the
lave trade." He went on to
trace the origins of the
negative image of Blacks
protrayed by Hollywood.
"Russian Jewry had a par­
ticular control over the
... ' movies and their financial
.' partners, 1 he Mafia, put
- together a system of
. de lruction of Black
people. It was by design, it
· was calculated," Jeffries
said.
Maurie 81 hop
'a a Ins e cape
. Ct ath penalty
ST. GEORGES, Grenada -
Th government com­
muted the death sentences
to life in prison for 14
people convicted of killing
( .�\' j r. M usi,ce
• ,I 0 I�.at 198:J falled
_" cou .' he U. . invasion
followed the a assination
of Bishop.
Prime Minister Nicholas
Brathwaite said,
"Grenadians should now
regard this as the closing of
one chapter and the open­
ing.of another."
In 1983, Bishop was ar­
rested 0 Oct. 13, freed six
days later, then again
seized by rebels and ex­
ecuted with seven others,
U.S. troops invaded on
Oct. 25, arrested the coup
leaders and installed an in­
terim government.
President Reagan
feared the jet-size airport
built by Bishop' would be
used to launch an invasion
of the U.S. Grenada is the
size of Rhode Island.
Ignorance die.
slowly
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa
. - The Rev. Samuel Butler
of Wesleyan Methodist
Church canceled plans to
perform a wedding after he
found out a white woman
was marrying a man of
mixed race.
"My reasons are per­
sonal, scriptural, really,
private," said Butler, who is
white. The wedding will be
. held elsewhere.
The enlighted pastor
learned the groom's father
was Black, his mother white
uring a counseling session
��� r days before the
he uled wedding.
Th pastor says there
veral Black persons
members in his
KKK on fir
The FBI arrested five
members of the Ku Klux
Klan on civil rights con­
spiracy charges in the burn­
ing of nine wooden crosses
in Shreveport, La., the Jus­
tice Department an­
nounced August 13.
The crosse were
burned on May 7 and 8, of­
ficials sai t sites includ­
ing the federal courthouse,
NAACP headquarters and
a Black family's home.
I
.
I
the 122 BI c college, tional, I
I
t t , I , priv archiv and per- I
on 1 collectio . The urvey to
identify repo itori of publisbec1 :
materi I gets un rway in Septem- :
I
ber nd the unpubli h d wvey I
in October. Both urvey will
1992. A datab e prototype i
rently being produced." I
Taronda Spencer, archivi t t the I
Walter Reuther Library on Wi yne I
State' campus will assist in the over- :
all compilation, along with Purdy :
Library and the Museum of African- '
American Hi tory. 01. James Ander·
,
son, who is AAENs chief historian, ,
I
is preparing hi torical briefs on the I
unequal funding of Bla colleg • :
"In believing that e ch generation :
writes its own history, the functional I
benefits of having untapped text and
visual resource to augment new re- �
search and teaching materials is:
awesome. Creating and distributing :
such an important collection allo I'
scrutiny of factors which �used and
supported America' dual education- I
al system. More important, the ar- I
chive will motivate teachers to:
develop a perspective of th�ir role:
and what they can mean to the value:
of education," Smith said.
AAEA recently launched the ale:
of a Iithograph to pur fundraising, ;
spon ored by George Jones, a,
Detroit textbook distributor, during a :
reception at the university's Mc-:
Gregor Conference Center on:
August!. :
" KEPT ,IN, " by Ed ard Lam on Henry, a Civil W r painter In 1888, i reproduced on 13" X 17"
P per stock nd uthorized by the Ne York tate I torical A oci tion. Prln re $100 e ch,
tax deductible nd can be purcha ed by callin 577-8165 .. Proce d will go to African American
Education I Archive .
learn regardless of race, class and
cultural background. "Children can
function at a normal level if there is
proper leadership, an orderly schoot
environment, academic empha i
and the appropriate re OUIceS to sup­
port the curriculum," Smith 'Con-
. tinued.
Smi th earned a rna ters degree in
instructional t hn logy from Pur­
due Univer ity and taught in the
Highland Park chool y tern before
taking an admini trauve position
with Highland Park' School Dis-
trict. .
He approached Wayne State in
1989 with a pr p al to create the
archive and wa brought aboard in
1 with their eed money.
"I'm excited after four years in
eeing my vision move forward with
such team enthusiasm. The fact that
Detroit will provide a model i . the
real plus. Compilations will include
Spirit of Survival
African World Festival
Kindred'Souls
on· display
By CAROLYN WARFIELD
Arts Correspondent
August 16-18 marks the 9th year of the A(rican World
Festival, ponsored by the Museum of African-American
History, presented annually at Phillip Hart Plaza.
"Spirit of Survival," a poster commissioned by the
Museum, commemorating the 1991 Festival, was
awarded to Joyce Ivory, the founder/director of Young
Artists and Company, Inc.
Ivory, a prolific mixed media artist said "It is truly
great being a part of a positive black female arti ts
network though gender is secondary to being a egment
of the Museum's history."
"The integral aspects of the pastel artwork were as
challenging as this year has been in saving the children'
art program," Ivory continued. "For eight years we have
kept our doors open."
" OME11MES WORKIN into the wee hours 0
th morning calling forth the right fusion of images and
symbols, the work finally poke a a catharsis. You must
urvive-- ou are birth, life, family, preparation and prac­
tice-you erve to continue because of righteous ac­
tion. As I drew, I interpreted: under the wings of the un
. where infinite time and life are veiled, you are the key to
life. Look up and northward, but be not taken into
lavery. For she who carrie creativity on her head, is th
progenitor of imaginable cholarship. The Fatia Fata
Nkrumah Kente pattern worn by the carred young war­
, riot ignifie tability of Black people a they forge
onward."
Copie of "Spirit of Survival" are $7 and may be
pucbased during the Festival at Hart Plaza or the Museum
of African .. Ameican History, 01 Fredrick Dougla ,in
th CuI tural Center.
By CAROLYN WARFIELD
Arts Correspondent
The Ethnic Gallery at Hart Plaza showcases Kindred
Soul, a women's artist collective, with 55 mixed media
pieces, by 30 members, in a vibrant synthesis of wCllable
art, drawing and painting media, fiber, collage, photcg­
raphy, furniture, calligraphy, basketry and floral designs.
"The cumulative effect is homage to African roots and
tappings from each woman's creative resolve," said Pat
Kabore, the organization's founder/chairwoman. "We're
extremely honored by Joyce Ivory's achievement, the
first' woman to receive a Fesuval-poster COmmission,
because she's an active member of Kindred."
Kabore, a fiber artist, recognizes that parity in the
mainstream artworld by ethnic women artists i poor. She
does however, plan to continue working in Detrc?it to
assist Black women in establishing a definite sense of
themselv and their potential.
. The collective' steering group formed in November,
1990 to strasegize a plan to increase the audience and
economic base of Detroit ethnic women ani 15. It i
currently eeking a space for its headquarters.
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By ARO
Corre pondent
When African-American
analyze th ir educational I ga y th Y
will int rpret th t hi tory to chang
th mselv and th ir communitie ,"
Robert L. Smith aid. "Our com­
munitie are e pecially hard hit by
high dropout stati tics, low tud nt
achievement and decline in higher
education participation. Black
educators must d velop and hare
the arne dedication of purpo e to
encourage effective education. II
. Smi th, project director of the
African-American Educational Ar­
chives (AAEA), in cooperation with
Wayne State University, has
developed a $1.5 million dollar plan
to identify and collect Black educa­
tional information dispersed
throughout North America.
Published and unpublished
material will be categorized and
cataloged into a computer database
enabling accessibility to a wide eg­
ment of American society .
Educators. scholars, policy
makers, researchers and the general
public will be able to select prepack­
aged or download materials from
compact and video disks. The dis
collection will index, bibliograph,
and annotate archival data; and fur­
nish oral hi tories and thousands of
documents and photographs.
"The idea sort of mushroomed
after attending Ron Edmonds Sum­
mer Academy," Smith said. Ed­
monds, now deceased, was a
proponent of the "effective school
, movement" that says all children can
Joyce Ivory
wins festival
commission
"W REALIZE WE have to fund the purcbase,
maintain the building and keep it running" Kabore COD- •
tinued. "We're up to the t and believe the art center
i 12 months away. Collective 'work and expanded .
economi are fundamental principl of our philosophy
and once the community art center i operational, we'll .
offer art clas es for women and children, master cl
by master arti ts with lodging quarters for visiting artis •
Artist members wilJ have tudio pace, a permanent
exhibi lion gallery, gi hop and office.
Tho e wi rung to contribute to the preservation of
ethnic cultural art can write Yvonne Lamar, Membership -
Chairwoman, Kinl1red Souls, P.O. Box 43650, Detroit
48226 or call 313-882-9854 for information on how to
get involved.
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