WORLD/NATION
which re trict e trans ml of
de e pending to 0
dom tic programs
m [or portion 0
our citi ; th ucation
well-bel of our citize
reh bilitation of our
fras tru ture ••• "
Speakin t the titut and
later t the U.S. Conference 0
Mayor, I 0 meeting in
Wa hington, J c on urged the
poll tical leade to help In' crease
voter participation by 2S percent in
50 major citi by re . teling nine
million more voters in 1992.
Also urging 2S percent reduc­
tion in the 177,000 Blac youth in
tate and federal pnso 1 It
added"if e could rescue ••• 4S,<XXl
youth from thi cycle of
violence ... that could ve $12 bil­
lion to invest in their future ... " The
R inbow Coalition al 0 held a
forum for the ix major Demoaatic
presidential candidates, ith
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton emerg­
ing the favorite.
n- n
economy, h
and dru .
Th meetin of BI elected
d ppointed official , called the
N tion Policy Institute, w first
organized in 1967, with ub equent
meetin held in 1 9 and in every
pre idential election year ince
1980.
Tb Institute w formed by th
Joint Center for Politic I and
Economic Studie and ix other na­
tional organizations of Blac offi­
cials.
In addition to the JCPES, the
participating groups included The
Congressional Blac Caucus, the
Judicial Council of th ational
Bar Association, the National As-
UNITED STATES
LEAD IN PRISON
POPULATION
According to a recent article in
. the ew Yor Time, the Uni ted
States, which impriso larger
share of its population than any
other nation has widen its lead
over the second-ranking country,
South Africa, a private research
and advocacy group said.
The group, the Sentencing
Project, based in Washington, said
there are 1.1 million inmates in
American prisons, a 6.8 percent
increase from 1989 to 1990. That
gives the United States an incar­
ceration rate of 455 people per
100,000, while South Africa rate
declined by 6.6 percent and is now
311 per 100,000 according to a
report by the Sentencing Project
based on statistics provided by
various countries.
The report also said that there
were half a million Black men in
prison in the United States, giving
America an incarceration rate for
Black men five times higher than
that ofBlac men in South Africa.
The United States rate for Black
men is now 3,370 per 100,000
compared to 681 per 100,000 in
South Africa.
Th overall number of Blac
elected to local, county, tate and
congressional office h increased
nearly five-fold ince 1970, from
1,469 to more than 7,000, JCPES
official announced.
Other cheduled speakers in­
cluded Dr. Jewelle Taylor Gibb ,
noted authority on Blac youth; Dr.
newspaper delivered to suburban Detroit
White supremacist
that people who would do this bate
everybody-most of all themsel­
ve ."
Neither Arthur Johnson, presi­
dent of the Detroit chapter of the
National Association for the Advan­
cement of Colored People, nor
Howard Simon, executive director
of the American Civil Liberties
Union in Michigan, immediately
returned telephone messages left at
their homes Saturday.
cated to the survival, expansion and
advancement of the white race."
received several complaints about
the leaflets, which listed a Wayne
telephone number and post office
boxes in Warren and Sterling
Heights. "It's atrocious. It's un­
believable," Leidlein said. But
police could do li ttIe more than arrest
the distributors on littering charges,
he said. A police spokesman said
Saturday no arrests had been made.
"There's not a whole lot you can
do about it," Leidleinsaid. "It's free
speech, freedom of the press." In
itS newspaper, the Church of the
Creator de cribed itself as "dedi-
the Otto, N.C.-based Church of the
Creator.
The' newspaper called itself the
"spearhead of the white racial holy
war." Inside, articles ran under
headlines such as "What is the Mat­
ter with Being a Racist?" and "The
Negro: Nature's Most Dismal
Failure." It also included numerous
anti-Semitic references in columns
and cartoons that espoused both ra­
ciat and religious bigotry.
CITY MANAGER James Leid­
lein aid Harper Woods police
BY BILL KOLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRrrER
Braun said she believed the
lingering reces ion may have
heightened racial tensions in Harper
Woods, a predominantly white com­
munity about 10 miles northeast of
Detroit. But she said the newspaper
particularly disturbed her because of
her, daughter's interracial marriage.
"It's upsetting, especially since I
have a granddaughter who's half
black," she said. "I shared it with
a black co-worker, who said she felt
HARPER woo Mich. (AP) - A
North Carolina-based white
supremacist group with strongholds
in three Michigan cities targeted this
Detroit suburb with racist leaflets,
sparking an outcry Saturday from
residents.
Dozens of tabloid-size
newspapers titled "Racial Loyalty"
were left after dark late last week on
the driveways of homes in everal
neighborhoods by local members of
Take a look at the future ...
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congratulate our local Black History Makers of Tomorrow.
During Bla k Hi t ry M nth, a w pay
tribut t the great a cornpli hm nt of
th pa t, M Donald' It taurant of
uth a t rn Mi higan ar proud to pre ent
th ar a' Black Hi tory Maker of Ti morrow.
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their holar hip and leader hip. Th y al
dem n trat d reativ thinking and in ight by
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people wh I arly h w pr rru a
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