City RA,:nCR
HUD Gr nt
Detroit will ee $14.6
million from th federal
Dep rtrnent of Hou ing
nd Urban Development
for home reh bilitation,
mortg g nd tenant
i ranee, ci ty develop-
ment official aid recently.
Henry Hago d, director
of the Community and
Economic Development
Department, told City
Council member the
deadline for the city to
appl y for the money i
April 8.
Ca e again t
H rt
wrapping up
Federal prosecutors
recently began wrapping
up their corruption case
agai ns t former Pol ice
Chief William Hart, with
the city auditor testifying
about trouble checking
records of the fund Hart i
accused of looting.
Auditor General Roger
Short said he thought an
agreement was worked out
for a full audit of the secret
service fund in 1987, but
Mayor Coleman Young
vetoed the plan, and no
audit was done until
December 1989. '
ppro im tely 22
nd rticulate middle hool
tu n ill ize t opportuni ty
lit rally" tep into t h "0 top
City of Inkster ey municipal d­
mini trators nd politici ns p rt of
the 1992 cond Annual "City 0 In-
ter/Bl nch tte Middle School Stu­
dent Day".
The event i co- ponsored by t
City of In ter, Ink ter Public
School and the Inkster P rtners in
Action, (comprised of the Inkster
Chapters of three historically Black
Greek-letter public rvice org niza­
tions: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta
ANN ARBOR, Mkla. (AP) - An
editorial cartoon in the University of
Michigan student newspaper about
political change in South Africa en­
raged the school president but
brought barely a ripple of other
prote 1.
The cartoon shows a prehistoric
white man and a woman looking at a
small, dark monkey-like character
that is trying to walk with the aid of a
cane. The character is labeled' 'South
Africa." "Aw gee, his first teps,"
the white man says.
University President James J.
Duderstadt suggested The Michigan
Daily apologize for publi hing the
cartoon.
In a letter to tbe new paper ,
Duderstadt said bc.._w Happ Ued
that we have in our midst people
capable of exploiting terrible suf­
fering of the people of South Africa
and of purveying ugly ,racial
stereotypes for their own sick or
sophomoric purposes. ' ,
Michigan Daily editor-in-chief
WASHINGTON D.C. -Bread for the
World recently succeeded in en­
couraging Congress to take an impor­
tant first step in addressing the
worsening poverty and nutrition
crisis faced by one in five children in
the United States.
In response to Bread for the
World's urging, Sen. �atrick Leahy
(D-Vt.) � Sen. Robert Dole (R-
..
. ,
Matthew Rennie said cartooni t Greg
Stump never intended to offend
Blacks. Rennie aid after reviewing
the cartoon, he could understand if
people found it offensive.
In a recent edition of the paper,
Stump said he regretted any con­
fusion about his work. The cartoon
was intended to how the steps being
taken by the white South Afnca
government. not Blacks from the
country.
Rennie said "the paper had
received only one phone call com­
plaining about the cartoon,
Duderstadt's office received several
complaints about the cartoon, said
Shirley Clarkson, director of
presidential communications.
Duderstadt also wrote �o the
newspaper last October after it pub­
lished a full-page advertisement that
claimed the Holocaust was a hoax.
Duderstadt backed the paper's right
to run the ad as a form of free speech"
but criticized editors for not disavow­
ing its contents.
Kan.) recently introduced the Every
Fifth Child Act in Congress.
The bipartisan bill, S. 2387, calls
for nearly $2 billion in additional
funding for next year to three of the
most successful, cost-effective
programs that help hungry ,childten
and youth: the Special Supplemental
Food Program for Women, Infants
, and Children (WlC), Head Start and
Job Corps.
Congress puts childhood
hunger on its agenda
S i m Th t nd Z t Phi B t
Sororiti .)
Each tud nt admini trator will
wor ide by ide with th ir City H 11
mentors, which include the Mayor,
members of Inkster City Coun il, the
22nd District Court Judge and other
key municip 1 personnel from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., according to Inkster'
U of M pre ident pan
tudent new, paper.'
South Africa cartoon
The legislation calls for eventual
full funding of WIC and Head Start,
two effective nutrition and early
childhood education programs for
low-income, at-risk children and
their mothers. It also calls for an
expansion of Job Corps, the federal
job-training and education program
for di advantaged youth.
Fair Share Agreements
Produce Results for Blacks
sumers are reinvested back in their
communities in the form of job and
business opportunities. ,
The voluntary agreements iden­
tify goals in such areas as purch ing
from minority suppliers; utilization
of African-American contractors,
professionals, and financial and in­
surance institutions; establishment
of affirmative action programs; op­
portuni ties for advancement into
senior management positions; repre-
entation on corporate boards, and
philanthropic contributions to wor­
thy African-American organizations
and causes ..
Over the five-year period, the
agreements cumulatively produced
$ 18 million in contributions to
African-American organization;
$10 billion in the purchase of goods
and services from minority
entrepreneurs; $1.2 billion deposited
in African-American banking in­
stitutions; $75 million expended in
advertising in African-American
media; $36 billion in insurance
placed with African-American in-
urance firms; $200 million in con­
s truction contract to
African-American firm ;' and 60
franchise/dealers pi or distributor-'
ship. .
The agreement also produced sig-
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to-Cut
fit to'
ome
Starting last week, DDS
will take an average of $86
more out of the monthly
checks of 38,948 welfare
families who work or have
other income, such as un­
employment benefits. '
The cost-cutting
measure - which even
DDS Director Gerald
Miller says discourages
people from working, will
save an estimated $3.4 mil­
lion in the first month. Al­
most 3,000 families will be
cut off completely.
Fred H. Rasheed, the director of
the NAACP's Economic Develop­
ment Department, after an extended
and comprehensive survey of com:'
panies that have. signed Fair Share
Agreements. with the Association,
has reported that these agreements
have produced an extraordinary flow
of economic benefits to the African­
American communi ty.
Over a five-year period, 1986-
1990, these benefits have exceeded
ome $47 billion, affecting not only
minority entrepreneurs and profes­
sionals, but employees who have
been provided upper mobility at the
companies, Mr. Rasheed said.
The analysis was prepared by the
NAACP's Economic Development
Department from information ub­
mitted by the participating com­
panies.
More than 50 major corporations
have signed the agreements but the
analysis of results was confined to
only those companies who have
signed Fair Share Agreements
during the period September 1982
through December 1989.
OPERATION AIR SHARE
initiated by the NAACP in 1981
to ensure that a fair share of the dol­
lars pent by African-American con-
nificant increases in minority hiring
and' upward mobility and were
responsible for at least ten African­
American securing positions of
Boards of Directors.
Applying a et of criteria that in­
cluded the company's degree of
commitment, data collection and
cooperation, innovative programs,
and compliance with affirmative ac­
tion goal outlined in the agree­
ments, the taft of the Economic
Development Department reviewed
the companies' overall performance.
EACH OMPANY will be in­
formed of its evaluation as a tool to
improve j t performance, Mr.
Rasheed aid.
"Believing, as I do, that the
economic frontier poses our most
critical challenge, I have taken a very
special interes t in the ongoing work
of our Economic Development
Department, and I will be working
along with Dr. Hooks and Mr.
Rasheed and his tat! to move even
further ahead in increasing economic
opportuni ties for minorities," said
NAACP Ch irman of the Board of
Directors, Dr. William F. Gibson.
r
Blacks say'
Tyson treated
unfairly •
Fifty-s ix percent of
African-Americans think
Mike Tyson was treated
unfairly by society, accord­
ing to a magazine poll.
More than 500 African­
Americans nationwide
were questioned about
Tyson and other issue for
the survey appearing last
week in Newsweek.
The 25-year-old former
world heavyweight boxing
champion was sentenced to
a six- year prison term for
., _ raping lS-year-old beauty
contestant Desiree
Washington.
Jamaica get
new Prime
Mlnlater
Governing party leader
recently selected former
Finance Minister P.J. Pat­
terson as prime minister to
lead Jamaica through one
of it mos t ' pai riful
economic periods, TV and
radio said.
Patterson, a British­
educated lawyer, promised
to continue the free-market
reforms supported by
Prime Mini ter Michael
Maneley, who i resigning
because of poor health.
EMU g'ospel choir
celebrates anniversary
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan
University's Gospel Choir
celebrated its 20th anniversary
'with a weekend reunion which cul­
minated in a public concert.
The student choir was originally
formed in 1972 by Martha Cotton­
Hurse, a 1976 EMU graduate who
currently lives in Georgia.
"It's amazing to think that 20
years ago,' EMU's Black Gospel
Choi r evol ved from a incere desire
and a plea to God," she said.
"With the help and dedication of
many people, fliers were circu-
rated, a meeting was held with of- Martha Cotton-Horse
ficers selected and the rest is
history! We grew in number and tion on campus," Cotton-Hurse
became the largest Black organiza- aid.