VOL XIV NO. 28 MAY 31 - JUNE 6. 1992
Coalition of 1 00
Black Women
honors 10 - - PAGE B7
BH ignores residents
in land giveaway
Prison officials
veto condoms
PO T LAUDERDAJ...E, (AP) -
Y eh Ben Yahweh, the African
American religious leader accused
of ordering hi followers to kill,
maim and bum non-members, w
convicted last Wednesday of con
spiracy.
Juroll returned only a partial ver
dict in the five-month federal trial.
Some of Yahweh's 15 co-defen
dants ere convicted of conspiracy,
w deared of coDipiIacy
aDcll",n_�*�. claamaa, tbe
1����'fi�_iaI6D8d iIeadlocBcl on 0
• CO'GDta, iDcl in a racketeering
•• 111' It Yab h.
f .proclaimed
-IOD of Ood," c.barJed with con-
pirlng to kill "bl phemelS" and
-White devils" his Nation of Yah
web, a small Miami religious group,
are into an $8 million real estate
empiIe.
Prosecutors charged that he ran
. . 'the sect through intimidation and
threats.
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LAJ��-Michigan should can
eel college cl for its priso�rs
- permanently, the sta1e's correc
do director says.
Direc10r Kenneth McGinnis said
tblt it's "Iudicro - for the state to
provide college c1 while over
2,000 inma wait for basic adult
education.
A series of court decision lequire
the state to provide college education
to prisoDers that want it, he said.
-If there' one major deficiency
wlthour(prlson) population, it's cer
tainly basic education," McGinni
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Q.
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bout bu ing
ud ntsfor
DBTROIT-Thebalance heetat tlnde-
pendence Bank, the only African American
owned in state, will look little better
to the continuing struggle of a coalition
of African American contractors and b iness
people to earn p ece of the $229 million
Veterans Administration (VA) ho pita! con
struction project.
n/Dailey, !be prime contractor on tb
boIpita lco true on, agreed to deposit funds
in First Independence.
The pro w part of a four-part agree-
. ment reached by representativ from a coal i-
Corr ion chief ·wan
cancel college. for prison r
LOS ANGBLES- The wift
pro ecutlon of four Afric n
American men accused in the beat-
ing of bite true er could pile
anger atop fiustration felt by many
over the oquittal of the police of
ficers in the beating of Rodney King
"The resources that have been
offered by every I enforcrement
gency throughtout the nation to ap
prehend, try and convict African
Americans' unreal, - . d Compton
City Council oman Patricia Moore.
"Tbe legal community must en
ure that these young men get tried
fairly and j tly. Tbcy' already
been tried in the media, - she d.
D mian Williams, 19; Henry
Watson, 27; and Antoine Miller, 20,
were charged I t week th at
tempted pzemediated murder, ag.:-
gravated mayhem and torture. :
The trio also ee po fbi
federal of in rferiDg tb-
interstate COlDIDCR:C tbe of
truck drl Reginald Denny.
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tion of four Detroit" gro onal
sociation of African American B ine
(NAAAS), the i tion 0 BI General
Contractor, Urb oci 'on 0 Contrac-
tors Consul tan (UACC) and the VA
H pita! Minority Contracting Executive Com
mittee - who met The day in Ho ton, Te
with Bateson/Daileye ecutive .
According to Owl Beckham, pre ident of
UAcc, he and Virgil Cobb , NAAAB presi
dent,metwithJ ephWalker, CEO of Bat on;
and Don Sumrell, executive vice-president and
arrived t the four greements.
Bateson promised to depo it t minimum,
the Emergency Relief Fund, an amount of
$25,000, and hopefully, all or part of the payroll
for the building job, Beckham said .
HIGHLANDPARKNATIONALCHAMPS-AnUnpreced ntedthr .tr.lghtn lonalchamplon hlpalnparllam ntaryprocedur.
belong to Highland Park Community High School. Th. ven-member Parll B r. atud nt team, coached by Nola Pur lful,
with only on return e from I at y ar, and no unlora, captured .cho�I'a .'xth national title In final. April 30 - May 2 In
Cincinnati. Highland Park won it .. ev nth at • champloMhlp In March. Top (I-r): Collic. Logan, Samartha 0 I., Marchone
Miller, II c rt McK.nzI • Bottom (I-r) Chrlatlna P.rry, S cl flY, ylvla Looney. (Photo by Andr Koe)
Prison Education Programs
said.
Gial Light, public information
specialist for the Department of Cor
rections.
There are 2,230 prisoners en
rolled in college programs at a cost
of about $1.31 million, she said.
Of the over 33,000 prisoners in Michigan, more than 8,000 r
enrolled In, or waiting to be en�olled In, educ tlon programs.
THE MEDIAN high school
grade completed for Michigan
prisoners is 10th grade, he said, but
the function level is closer to 6th
grade.
He favors mandatory Inmate par
ticipation in. ba ic education
programs but it is "very difficult for
us to mandate something we can't
provide," McGinnis said.
"We don't have the resources to
provide (basic) education on
demand," he said.
There are 1,550 pri oners en
rolled in basic adult education cour
e at a cost of $14.55 million aid
2 Popular Programs
B sic Adult Education
Enrollment: 1,550 inmates
Cost to state: $14,555,000
BASIC EDUCATION COSTS
more because correctional faciliti
have to bire their own staff wbereu
college programs are coordinated
through nearby community college,
she said.
Money allocated to COllege
programs would be better spent on
fulfilling basic education needs, Me-
Coli ducatlon
Enrollment: 2,230 inmates
Cost to state: $1,30Q,500
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OXVII..LB, T . '-Whittle
Communication's for-profit vision
of American education is till evolv
ing, but company officials are confi
dent the result will be a national
model.
C 'We are basically orking off a
model that created 200 or 300
years ago when e were an agrarian
ociety," Whittle vice chairman'
Hamil ton Joldan said Tuesday.
, 'Our approach is going to be
that we are gOing 10 start over. We
are not going to be trapped by all
these old umptioDS. We are going
to try in this lab environment to ere
ate a new school."
Christopher Whittle, chairman
and founder of !be media company
best known for i "Channel One"
clas room news program reaching
more than 6 million students nation
wide daily, announced the Edison
Project a year ago.
Whittle wants to reinvent the
America school- from lesson plans
to school design.
He's committed to spending $2.5
S .. SCHOOL, P.A-10
PATRICK JO
"Violence nd crime ill still
e t. It bould Only apply to
Elementary kids. High school
students can take care of themsel-