�VESTERN MICHIGAN mittin traditio h ry, 11 redl t nking too much. "I've lway h d 11 of t Ide ,no I've found way to produc vcly them. In Africa n individual i selec d to perform the of ping on the tribe' history, present Nippenin , and culture. I'd Ii e to thin rd be th t pe on, d pi my x." Well, Pat, you ot myvo e! THE MORE CONNECTED we are to our family tree and com­ munity, the more stable, receptive, ·Wide· pread upport halt t tion ale, ays Black radio Ex: cutiv By DANNY R. COOK Recently, Kalamazoo' ety hall the ite of an afternoon ne ' conference announcing the termina­ tion of any contractual buylsell ar­ rangemen for Portage radio station WUBU PM 96.5 held at 3:00 p.m. , Thursday, September 19th, the pre briefmg by larry Langford, WUBU owner, w obviously in response to a promise Langford mad in a letter to the Kalamazoo Metropolitan Branch NAACP in August. , At that time he acknowledged the community' support and said be would report bac to this community when a decision was made about thc fate of the urban 'adult contemporary ltation. ' Sayhig the contractual obligation . to $ell tbe station to Tri-State Broad- , . eating w terminated on Septem- . ber 4th, Langford announced the station "has not, and will not be sold." Using what's known as a "drop dead" clause (if the sale doe not go . : through within 180 days and the • FCC [Federal Communications '" Commission] hasn't ruled on the pending sale, parties to the contract can terminate it), Langford did what the FCC refused to do: see that Kala� area Blacks get their fair Larry Langford sbare of the radio airwavea. IN A DECISION dated Septem­ ber 9, 1991 the FCC ruled the local NAACP' objections to the ale of wusu to Tri-State to' be without meri t. In the same decl ion the FCC decided the petition form the Nation­ al Black Medi Coalition to block the sale because it would allow Tri­ State to own two PM radio tations AbeThomp u in the same mar et to be without merit Iso. . In ence, the FCC subverted i duty to protect the righ of citizens by allowing business people to the airwave a private property, some members of the NAACP id. However, according to Robert Jones, Chairperson of the Metropoli tan Kalamazoo Branch' Committee on nOth YEAR' LJ . CELEBRATION NORTHSIDE ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT nd SOCIETY . " 1.71 the Nor1MId. AeeocIIItIon for Edu_lon Advancement ... r.hlp. to out':ncllnQ minority etudente. W •• r. proud to loin th m for •• pectll.,.tormanoe no 20 • of WM'Ient. F rtng .1�voIoe community-wid. choir, the oonoert I ht muelc of Afrtoan-Am..so. com.,..,.. Alllrw now by or ng tick ... along with your order for MY of our. _ ' , Oroup d "y rllt_ ar • ..,. .. ., .. TICf