LII/ORLO AND NATION
Fula'ni in race
for president .
:omrm·.ssion re­
quirements for rec iving fed-
ral prim m tching fund .
"My campaign h rai moo
than 5500,000 in matchable
doll ," Fulani id.
In her second bid presi-
dential candidat on the N . onal
Alliance Party ticket, Fulani
str ed th . u of national
h alth service, a human hous­
ing policy, d f nse of the hard­
won civil and human rights for
people of color, Women's right
to choose (abortion), and a
human AIDS policy.
Fulani aid she also wants
an end to the drug and d spair
and police'brutality that are kill­
ing our young people, and the
future to give them jobs and
hope for the future.
Univ ity, Rev.
Dr. Ish am Bango, Dr.
K w u Walker, and Bab Senzenk­
agulu Zulu, director of Washington,
D.C.'s Ujama School, hich has
graduated high chool stud nts who
are very succe ful in college.
Thi workshop called for Bl ck
people to follow two-tr k educa­
tion policy: first, to continue or start
campaigns for African-cent redcur­
ricula in th public chool and, sec­
ond, to tart at least one independ­
ent. mod 1 Black school in every
community.
THE WORKSHOP on health
w moderated by Ms. Peggy Bookter,
an N-COBRA n tional board mem­
ber. and led by Dr. Peter D w on,
Ms. M ha Bro ard, director of
Louisiana Primary Care Association,
and Dr. Bernstine McGee, chairper-
-on of Southern University's Depart­
ment of Human Nutrition and Food.
Black human capital is being
destroyed by smoking, use of whis­
key and other narcotics, and poor
diet, as well as murder, according to
the panel. which also determined
that these problems could be mark­
edly reduced by the delivery of bet­
ter information to more people and
changes in attitudes.
Any. Louis Scott, the public
defender for Louisiana's Fourth Ju­
dicial District, presented a system­
atic examination of how the criminal
justice system-s-trom policemen
through courts, through the legis la­
ture--targets young Black males.
"Lawyers who represent people
who cannot afford attorneys are
g� underpaid and over-waked.
The state funds the District Attor.­
ney's office, but fun4ing fa' the public
Farrakhan launches
economic program
Jesse Jackson
to "become depressed and give
up."
Farrakhan said he had prayed
to Allah (God) and that many ochers
had prayed for him. And while he
"didn't give the disease a second
thought," he' aid that it was sym­
bolic of the spiritual cancer that is
'Spreading throughout the peoples
and institutions of America, par­
tieul ly the le dership.
"I REALLY WANT to talk
on God's healing power, Farra-·
khan aid. "We can put trust in
docta's ... but the geate3t confidence
stna1d be put in the power
of God who created (the body). It
is never too late to be healed by a
God that has the power to heal,"
he aid. "They ay prayer changes
things. I'm a living witness that it
does. I'm here to tell you that I no
longer h ve cancer. God is great."
Farrakhan then med into his
theme, "The Black Man Must Do
for Self or Suffer th Conse-
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Jackson
out
of race
Jesse Jackson announced
Nov. 2 he will not run for
president in 1992 but vowed to
hold those candidates who do
run accountable to the people.
Making the announcement
on the grounds of a public
housing project in
Washjngton, D.C" Jackson
said the billions of dollars that
fly over the projects on their
way to aid Russia, Israel and
other foreign countries have
got to stop and address the
crisis in America.
"Here is where government
rhetoric and livng reality have
collided and the wreckage is a
body of people," Jackson said.
"I focus here because this is the
urban crisis personified, the
epitome of national neglect."
Jackson expressed his dis­
content with both parties and
pledged to create a coalition of
progressive Democrats dedi­
cated to reinvest in America, a
campaign theme he developed
in the 1988 run for president.
The 90 million voters who
sat out the 1988 election will
the target of the Rainbow
Coalition's voter registration
and voter participation drive,
Jackson said.
th c untry to follow ith rep tion
el tions to h Ip force Congress to
p y.
EIGIITY PERCE T of th re-
pond nts to poll tak n t th con­
ference, hich was attended by ov
400 p pie, aid they would work to
carry out reparations plebi cite.
Dr. Barbara Jon s, Dean of th
Colleg of Busin s at Prairie Vi w
A&M niv rsity, outlined th dev­
astating effect on th Bl ck commu­
nity of high unemployment among
Black males.
"Shockingly, 44% BI k male
college graduates, 20 to 29 years of
age. are without full-time employ­
ment, comp ed with only � of
White college gradu res," he aid.
"Fully 22 percent of BI ck male
in thi age group in the inn r-cities
report no earnings at all. Not only
doe this ituation incre e crime.
but it has down the
marriage rate among Blacks.
"This is the chief cause of the
well-known fact that today, half of
all Black children are born into one­
parent families and most live in
poverty. " Moreover, according to
Dean Jones. real family income has
actually been dropping for more than
a decade.
DR. DAVID SWINTON, Dean
of the School of busin at Jackson
State University and a principal con­
tributor to the Urban League's an­
nual "State of Black Am rica" re­
port. said that at most only a third of
the huge poverty gap between Blacks
and Whites is caused by anent market
disaimination; two-thirds are ca
by the limited amount of human
capital, wealth. and businesses owned
CmCAGO - A deafening roar
rose to the rafters of the Univer­
sity of Illinois Pavillion as 10,000
people jumped to their feet to
welcome Louis Farrakhan to the
stage during the October 7 Savi­
ours' Day Tribute to the Honor­
able Elijah Muhammad.
MINISTER FARRAKHAN
was trim and �sed � a blue suit
accentuated by ared-and-black bow
tie and handkerchief. He was
flanked by six members of the
Vanguard-tbe younger women
ci the Natioo ci lshm-end a squad
of the Fruit of Islam, led by Farra­
khan's son, Mustapha Farrakhan
Muhammad.
After thanking the audience
for their support, Minister Farra­
khan, 58, shocked all by revealing
that he recently had been diag­
nosed with prostate cancer. He
detailed his experience to a hushed
audience, explaining that he didn't
believe God allowed him to get
the deadly disease in order for him
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