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The All-Afric n People'
Revolutionary P rty i a per­
manent, independent, revolution­
ary, P n-Africani t party b din
Africa the ju t Home-land of
African People all over th world.
It i an intergral part of th Pan
Afric nand orld oci Ii t
revolution.
The Pan-African Movement
as umed its modem organization­
al expre ion and form in 1900.
with the convening of th 1 t Pan­
African Conference spearheaded
by Sylve ter Williams, Bi hop
Henry Walters and W.E.B. Du­
Bois; and later the South African
Native Congress led by Jababu,
the Universal Negro Improve­
ment Association led by the
y
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Honorable Marcus Garvey, the
National Congre 'of Briti h
We t Africa led by Jo eph Casely
Hayford, th Uga Africana of the
Portugue e Colonie of African
and South Ameri led by Jo e de
Magalh es.In 1919. W. E. B. Du­
Boi , recognizing the n ce isty
for continuity. organized the 1 t
Pan African Congres . Between
1919 and 1945, five Pan-African
Congre e were held.
The 5th Pan-African Con­
gres .co-chaired by Dr. W.E. Du­
Bois and K w me Nkrumah
marked the be inning of a new
period which w the intensifica­
tion of the mass phase of the
African Revolution and the emer­
gence of the new forms ofrevolu-
tionary m , Pan African politi­
cal organization adequate to the
task of truggling for political in­
dependence.
The organization understand
that "All people of African de-
cent, whether they live in North
or South America, the Caribbean,
or in any other part of the world,
are Africans and belong to the
African Nation.
SEEKI G TO educate and
organize the mas es of exploited
and oppres ed Afric ns living,
uffering and struggling in over
113 countries in the world; in
order to relea e and channel their
See AAPR, A10
roup appeal for
Black marrow donor.
By LEAH AMUEL
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"This is a problem whose solution African Americans Making a Dif-
rests solely within ," added Davis. ference is asking those interested in .
"We can make a difference. We must donating marrow to call 494-2748.
make a difference.
Thi month, African Americans
Making a Difference (AAMAO) are
campaigning to register more Black
bone marrow donors in Detroit. Tbe
group hopes to save the lives of
thousands of African Americans suf­
fering from diseases that threaten
normal red blood cell production.
AAMAD was started nearly a
year ago by Chrysler employees to
increase awareness of the need for
Black bone marrow donors. At a
press conference held at Detroit's
Henry Ford Hospital, representatives ·
of the organization gave information
on the campaign.
"There are not enough African­
American blood or bone marrow
donors," said American Red Cross
Community Relations Specialist
Dorothy Davis. "Each year, 16,<XX>
are stricken with leukemia, aplastic
anemia and other diseases requiring
transplants.
"Two thousand Blacks in the
United States need transplants," she
added. "But of the 450,CXX> volunteer
donors registered, only 3.7 percent
are African Americans, 3.8 percent
are Hispanic Americans and .� per­
cent are Native Americans."
AMONG THE patients in
Michigan awaiting transplants is
Askia Abdulmutakabbir, 4, who has
osteopetrosis (excessive bone
growth) and has been seeking a
donor for two years. Flint resident
Mardell Spears, 29, has paroxysmal
nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a
condition in which the blood does not
clot and there is a low platelet count.
He has been seeking a donor for a
year.
Nineteen-year-Old Bishari Bivins,
has lymphocytic leukemia. The
University of Michigan student has is
I still waiting for a donor. Samuel
Baker Hutson, who is also 19, has
cancer developing in the lymphatic
. system.
�rrow donation is done through
tissue matching. Donors give a
sample of blood, which is then
analyzed and the results added to a
data base, a computerized listing ,of
potential donors with their tissue
types. �hen a patient needs bone
marrow, members of his family are
tested first in order to find a close
match.to the patient's tissue to avoid
rejection. If a match is not found
within the family, the national data .
base is consulted. '
"With the grim statistics facing
African-Americans in need of
transplants, our primary goal is
education and awaren to over­
come them," said Diane Lesley,
AAMAO Chairman.
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GRADUATION EXERCISE - Dr. Arthur M. Carter III, Interim
deputy 8uperintendent of Division of Community Confidence
with Detroit Public Schools, told graduating cia .. number 80 of
the Job Training Part rnahip Act's School of Practical Nursing
Friday. March 13 at Murray-Wright High School, ·You are going
to become a part of a $80 billion Indu8try.· Th one year nursing
program began March 11, 1991 and 47 graduat d. In April they
will take th stat board to become IIcena d practical nurs .
MeG riff, parents clash
on eonfernee worth
ICHIGA
G DU TE of How rd
Univer ity, h m rched with the
late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
and worked in Mi i ippi h lping
African Americans, who had been
limited by Jim Crow laws, register
to vote, and he believe the African
American community hasn't come
much further ince then.
"The only thing that tands be­
tween us nd libertion is organiza­
tion," he id."The problem with us
as a people is that we lack organiza­
tion."
Toure aid African Americans
OU HI Y H been cut
off nd African America do not
re d enough to ee it out, he id
informin the t nding room only
crowd to why 0 m ny African
Americans till have lave men­
tali tie .
"W h ve to know bout the
great contributions we have given
and the gre t contributions we m t
continue to m ke to hum nity," he
aid. "We were only free in Africa.
Once you know who you are,
nobody will play with you. We are
African must know our culture 0
we can know our re ponsibilities."
In the 1960' it w the African
masses nd the the African masse
alone who headed up the Civil
Rights Movement, Toure
aid."(African Americans) are the
only people in the world to shed our
blood for reform" he said and other
nations u ually hed blood in
and ee an evolution of thought and
action in administrators, executive
staff, parents, teachers, community
and board members as they walk
houlder to shoulder in harmony to
pursue a knowledge base concerned
with truth, order, accuracy, balance,
harmony, and righteousness in tbe
treatment -and education of our
children."
Upset by a low turnout of
parents, about 485 out of more than
2,000 conference participants,
Pearce said she learned nothing she
could take back to the parents cen­
ter to help her in training parents in
the community.
If the parents are not reformed
how can be expect the students to
stop dropping out of school, ral e
their test cores and believe in their
history.
"What about when they're told
they are queens and kings in school
and then they go home and are told
they are not by their parents with
low self-esteem?" she asked.
These types of things should
have been add res ed at the con­
ference because. the child placed in
cri s have parents who are also "at­
ri k," Pearce said.
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As a Chapter One parent, Minnie
Pearce said she and several others
attending a recent school con­
ference were disappointed with the
exclusive nature of the
conference's structure. .
Her complaints included, the
workshops were narrow in their
view, never focusing on parental
. involvement and some keynote
speakers were confusing and out of
touch wi th the grass roots men­
talities of many parents and com­
munity leaders, she said.
Pearce, of the District Wide
Parent Advisory Council asked
Deborah McGriff, Detroit Public
Schools superintendent for a report
on the annual conference held at
Cobo Hall Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
But the report released from Su­
perintendent McGriff's office in
March, gave the conference a pass­
ing grade.
"The fifth annual conference of
the African American Child Placed
in Crisi ... reached its goal to
'Sound the Alarm' about the plight
of African American children in
today ociety," McGriff aid. "It
is inspirational and certainly
rewarding to- work on a project ...
NOW I Tn time for
Detroit to make next year'
budget and finda way to trim
it 100 million deficit.
Analy ts ay that the bigge t
problem facing Detroit i its
declining population-and
therefore declining tax ba e.
This raise an important ques­
tion: Why would a city
desperate for revenue
deliberately block a chance to
put people into home of their
own and make money for it­
self at the same time?
The theories range, from
the belief that the city is just
trying to protect itself from
potential liability to the idea
that our city government has
chosen to neglect low-in­
come neighborhoods so badly
that the residents will move
out and the city will be free to
rebuild the neighborhood for
a much weal thier group of
people.
In either case. we, as re i­
dents of Detroit, have a job to
do .. We must "remind" the
city government, any way we
can, that THEY work for US.
They are not some benevolent
benefactors taking care of us.
We pay their salaries.
We need to stand together
and tell tho e that WE put in
,power that it is long past time
to take care of all of Detroits
people'. And it is LONG past
time to get rid of the same old
status quo. In the words of
our Mayor, "If there is no
struggle there is no progress.','
It's just a question of who sets
the agenda for the struggle.
Whether it's something as
specific as making the
. Nuisance Abatement Or­
dinance accessible to people •
struggling for a home of their
own, or as broad as making
the neighborhoods a priority
for the city once again, it's
time for some serious chan­
ges. And we, as a people
- together, can make them hap­
pen.
By FLODEAN S. RIGGS
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