ruBING P Ident
Bulb recently e10ed a bill that
ould ve allo ed people to
regiater to ote when they
pply fro a driver' license,
saying it auld be "an open
invitation to fraud and eorrup­
lion. " The ure would
have made registration forms
available t unemployment'« 11IIr""1�
and public lance offices.
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DBTROlT - The Detroit
Board of Education recently
propo ed re idency rule
hldl ould affect all future
full-time cbe. The board
ants DC teachers to live in
the city, ying that it would
inere e employees'stake in
the schoola while boosting a
slumping tax base.
The ptopo ed re idency
rule triggered strong oppo i­
tion from union official who
aid the rule would mate if
difficult to recruit new
teachers.
The plan would bring the
Iystem's 10,400 teachers in
liDe with most other district
employeea, who already must
live in the city.
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DIJ. • .".... _.Civil
righll leader'le e]: 011
recently called Zionism a
"liberation movement" and
urged Black Americans and
Je I to re-create their old
coalition.
In calling for reconcilia­
tion, Jackson said Blacks and
Jews IhOuld work together for
economic growth and peace,
and to prevent "scapegoating,
racism, anti- emi tism,
polarization and violence."
Pov rty rat. Jump
WASBlNGTON - The num­
ber of Americans children in
poverty rose by 11 percent
during the 1980s, the
Children's Defense Fund
recently reported.
The child advocacy group
said tti number of children
living in poverty pw by 1.1
million to 11.2 million be-­
tween 1979 and 1989. Reagan
administration policies con­
tributed to the increase, the
groupsaicL
ScOOI claim
Black child Insplr d
Mark Twain
NIIW rou - The heavily
accented slang speech MaIk
Twain used in The Adventure
of Huckleberry Finn may have
been botrOwed from a 10-year
-oldBl achi1d thoautbormet
according to scholar Shelly
Fisher YlSbkin.
Fishkin, an associate
professor of American Studies
. at "the UniveISlty of Texas,
shows that the speech �ttems
of the Black boy, whom Twain
calls Jimmy, and .of Huck
Finn, are similar.
The Black boy is descnOed
by Twain' an 1874 in the
New York TImes "the most
artless sociable and exhaust-
, "
less talker: I ever came across,
the Times said.
Fishkin has presented her
theory in a book to be publish:
td in 1993 called Was Huck
Black? Mark Twain and
African American Voices.
or on.
The Chief Executive Officer
ith the po ibillty for planni
the multi-million dollar Democratic
Convention in New Yor il a
diminutive, soft spo en, politically
MICHAEL J. =rrrs
\.
Durin an interview with her t
M di n Sq re G rden, the ite of
the convention, Herman id, "In
ddition to the practical politi of
ple in 40,000 Democra , gue ,
nd med a rep entativ , we must
be concerned ith all the technol­
ogy and many related problems of a
major, daily 1V production, broad­
c t round the world with an
audience of more than 100 million.
Let me tell you, this h been quite
. MAXINE GRIFFITH
1St UJl�, was. p r.t ... of., r� dent
Franklin D. Roo evert's "Black
Kitchen Cabinet", Black women
played a behind-the-scencs, "sup­
portive role" in American polities.
At the 1964 Democratic Con­
vention in Atlantic City, New Jer-
ey, Fannie Lou Hamer appeared on
national television, with tears roll­
ing down her cheeks, pleading
dramatically for the Convention
Rules Committee to seat the in­
tegrated Mi sissippi Freedom Now
I
t lavvy Blac oman -.Al4fii;il,*iiili"�. �f�
Herman. Uke the late Beth lcadellhip involvement of
Hamer, Herman II alao a product 0 can ericana in the 1992 con-
the south, Mobile, Alabama. vention II historic. In addition to
Herman Is only the second Ronald H. Brown being the first
oman in the 200-year history of Blac chairman of the Democratic
the Democratic Party to serve u Party and Herman as the Conven­
CEO of a Democratic National tion CEO, four other Blacks hold
Convention. Rosalind Wyman was top positions. They are Frani WIl­
the first at the 1984 convention in Iiams, Jr., Chief Financial Officer,
San Francisco. Herman i the first Mario M. Cooper, Convention
Black woman to hold uch a power- Manager, Maxine Griffith, Director
ful position. of Convention Hall Planning and
. l .�
GiVe aid no food
hike .Hunger Chair
by Larry Stili
S".,., to "Ich"." CltlBn
while demands for food at emer­
aeDCy outle1l are iocreasing, Hall
said.
The TBFAP program received
$120 million for purchasing
surplus commodities in 1992, in
addition to $4S million in ad­
ministrative fuDda. Hall and other
IUpported advocated an increase
in funding for the fiscal year,
1992, and again in 1993, as the
recent downturn In the economy
was forcing an increasing number
of Americans to seek emergency
Commodity
Credit
C9rporation
donations to the
program totaled
betw n$800
million and
$1 billion annually.
From its inception in 1983 until
1988, Commodity Credit Cor­
poration donations to the program
totaled between $800 million and
$1 billion annually, the letter ex­
plained. A combination of factors,
"including statutory revisions in
price support programs and a more
aggressive commodity export
policy resulted in reduced Federal
acquisition of food products avail­
able for di tribution through
TEFAP, Hall said.
"We are therefore, encouraging
your consideration of utilizing
Section 32 funds to acquire ap-
,proprlate commodities for aug­
menting the TEF AP inventory ...
by transferring the nece ary
fund from the approxiametly
$141 million now remaining i�
the funds," Hall's letter stated.
"One of the principal func­
tions of the Section 32 fund is to
promote domestic consumption
of various commodities by
diverting urplus goods to low
income populations. The contin­
gency fund, which is held in
reserve for emergency uses, cer­
tainly seems an appropriate
mechanism for .. this ituation­
for tbere is surely a food emer-
gency for many in this nation, " the
hunger committee chairman con­
cluded.
If Madigan complies with the
committee' request, it would be
the first time the funds would be
used primarily to provide food for
the needy, according to the com­
mittee.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Members
of the U.S. Congress Hunger
Committee have asked the Depart­
ment of Agriculture to give
prior:ity to using available funds to
feed needy people instead of pur­
chasing commodities "to o�et
market influences in the price of
certain perishable foods."
Rep. Tony P. Hall (D-OH),
chairman of the House Select
Committee on Hunger, recently
called on Secretary of Agricul­
ture Edward Madigan to use dis­
cretionary funds at his disposal
to extend the purchasing power
of an emergency food program
that distribute supplies "to mil­
lions of needy Americans
through food banks and soup
kitchens across the country."
In a letter from Hall, also
signed by Select Committee
Ranking Republican Bill Emer­
son (R-MO) and 17 other House
of Representatives members, the
commi ttee asked Secretary
Madigan to allocate up to S2S
million of USDA's Section 32
funds to purchase additional
commodities for di tribution
. through the Emergency Food As­
sistance Program (rEF AP).
Under TEFAP, urplus com­
modi tie are purchased by the
USDA for distribution to food
banks and soup kitchens, but the
Department reportedly has al­
ready spent nearly all of the 1992
funds appropriated for TEFAP
providel1 to feed their families.
"Charitable food programs
spanning the country are reporting
dramatic increuea in demand for
emergency lllance," the letter
from Hall to Madigan tates.
"Rcaultsofa 28-citysurvey issued
by the U.s. Conference of Mayors
concluded that the' demand for
emergency aid from all source
hII increaeed.
M n gement, nd tty. H rtin
Flournoy, Genert Counsel.
"We have alway d talented
minoriti in number two po itions
at Democratic conventio ," Her­
man id. "Ho ever, the e
minoritie never had the oppor­
tunity to move Into top leade hip
po ltlona with the convention nd I
am very pleased with their perfor­
mance."
here he pI ced more n 1,000
minority women throughout the
county in non-tr ditional occup -
tions in the priv te ector.
Herman' ffiliatio include
bo rd of director positio for
tio I Council of egro Women,
dams N tional Bank, the tional
Democratic In titute, D.C.
Economic Development Finance
Corporation, nd Delta Sigm
• COOPER
.... 1aClC�nt
rmaD" ocia, Inc., of
W hinston, D.C., _peel.lizfna In
tar.eted marketing, human
re ource management, multicul­
turalism in management, mergers
and acqui itioDl. In 1977, she was
appointed by Pre ident Jimmy
Carter as Director of the Women's
Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor.
From 1972 to 1977, she was Na­
tional Director of Minority Women
Employment Program (MWEP)
,
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,�. � .. � I
In : ponse 't .: questJOD,/
" A..tIer . rile })em N.t1onal
Convendon, are you plannJng to as­
sume any other great challenge 1" .
Herman paused, smiled and said,
"I appreciate your great ense of
humor."
Concern raised about
car in urance rate
.
By RON SEIGEL· ..
eorrr'pond!nt
insurance, bcca the atate allowed
the rate to go up higher in the High­
land Park area than other pornors of
the tate. She cbargcd be w vic­
timized imply for living in Highland
ParlL .
Black Councilman Charlie P.
Davis d that his rates Mnt up $240.
Concerns .ere expre led by
David Points that if the car ra went
up. ho insurance ra ' would fol­
low.
Mayor Porter uggeated inviting
State Reprcaentatlve Cater Waz­
mat, who w elected from the district
that includes both Higbland Park and
Hamtramck to �lain what can be
done.
IU..AND PARK - Viola Mul­
dovan, a white Highland Park bloc
club leader raised the eyebrows of
some Black citizens when he an­
nouoced at the Mayor' Night ion
before the city council meeting that
lbe comidcred herself a victim of dis­
aimination.
However, by the time s� ended
ber speech to Mayor Unsey Porter,
Black membem of the audience were
vigorously agreeing with bier and sup­
porting her. . .
Muldovan announced that he
received a $184 increase in her auto