Th 0 Ice, ere
quitt d of m t of th te
charg on ril 29. Th
cquittal touched off the
wo t U.S. urban rio of
thi century, entered not
guilty pi to charg they
violated King' civil rights
during hi rre t.
Officer L urence
Powell, Timothy Wind d
Theodore Bri eno were Co
c ed of rainin c and
baton blows on King after
topping him on March 3,
1991, following
high peed .ch e. Sgt.
Stacey Koon w charged
wi th allowing the beating to
take pI ceo If convicted,
they each face up to 10
years in pri on nd fine of
up to $250,000.
Jordan honored
MEMPHIS-Barbara Jor­
dan, a former member of
the House of Repre­
sentatives, will be awarded
the National Civil Rights
Museum Freedom Award,
museum officials said. Jor­
dan, a professor at the
University of Texas at Aus­
tin, will be honored with
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
during a ceremony Sept 10.
Jordan will receive the Na-
tio 1 Freed rd and
Tutu, bi
of Cap , So�
Africa, will receive the In­
ternational Freedom
Award.
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NEW ORLEANs-Visits by dig- emphasized the importance of
nitaries, a resolution upporting education in liberating African­
statehood for the District of Colum- Americans and reaffirmed its com­
bia, and an educational extravaganza mitment with a $71,000 contribution
were among the ctivities which kept to the United Negro College Fund.
more than 10,000 Alpha Kappa Celebrating its heritage, 84-year­
Alpha (AKA) members busy during old AKA also paid special tribute to
their fifty-fifth national convention Mrs. Loraine Richardson Green of
held here recently. Chicago, a 75-year-member who
AKA also honored its 75-year- served as AKA's second national
old-member and second national president in 1919. Green, one of two
president, saluted the Black press, Black women in the 1918 graduating
and inducted honorary members class of the University of Chicago,
during the six-day event. was the force behind the creation of
Headlining the list of dignitaries AKA's national magazine, the Ivy
were Secretary of Health and Human Leaf.
Services Louis Sullivan and Mae The contributions of the Black'
Jemison, the first and only Black press in forging a more equal society
female astronaut wbowill make hi - w al ral . Th alu in-
tory again �e 1 wlleo s eluded the christening of the Ida B.
INIIl1rMlJItnto sp abtllrtlaPa..IIr<lIlL..Jf Wells Excellence In MedIa award in
Lauding AKA for "making a honor of the Reconstruction jour­
positive difference in health educa- nalist known as the princess of the
tion," Secretary Sullivan urged the Black press and the recognition of
women to continue their work by the three associations-Amal­
serving as a "bridge between the gamated, Black Resources, Inc., and
government and the people in our National Newspaper Publishers-­
communities." which represent the 200 Black
Jemison talked about her role as newspapers in existence today.
the first woman of color in space and
thanked AKA for supporting her.
"This (space flight) has long been a
dream for me, and when I board En-
AS PART of the festivities, AKA
also recognized the outstandinz
deavour Sept. 11, I'll remember the
many people who have helped to
make this possible, and I'm proud
and grateful to count my sisters of
AKA among that group," she said.
THE KEY resolution passed by
the assembly was a call for statehood
for the District of Columbia .. "Too
long has the District' of Columbia
been without a vote in determining
the affairs of this nation, and it's time
to Change that," said AKA interna­
tional president Dr. Mary Shy Scott
of Atlanta, Ga.
In a "With Uberty, Justice, and
Education for All" production, AKA
Detroit dancers host Open House
The Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy (DWDA) will host an Open
House and Registration to introduce the 1992/93 dance eason.
Registration will be held from September 8-11, from lOAM - 7PM
at the Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy studio, 1260 Library St. (be­
hind Hudson's) in downtown Detroit.
Classes begin Saturday, September 12th and will continue through
April 28, 1993. A free "video" style jazz eta for adults will be offered
from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm, during the open house. For information
and class �chedules call (313) 963-0050.
achievements of three women by be:
stowing honorary membership. In­
ducted were Dr. Margaret T.
Burroughs, founder, DuSable
Museum, Chicago; Mrs. Bettiann
Gardner, part owner, the Chicago
Bulls and co-owner, Soft Sheen
products, Chicago; and Mrs. Cleo
Parker Robinson, retired dancer and
executive artistic director, Cleo
Parker Robinson Dance Theatre,
Denver, Co.
AKA also announced that tennis
mogul Zina Garrison was at the
Olympics but had been inducted as
an honorary member prior to her
departure.
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Their ctlon legitimized
P 'dent B h' uman, t
policy reg rding the Haitian
refugee. By Howing the
Pre ident' executive order to
remain in effect, the court ha
condemned tho ds of innocent
people to persecution, torture and
even death.
Burial site to be preserved as memorial
On the site where the Federal General Services Administration (GSA) intended to erect a four-story
office building in Lower Manhattan, scientists have unearthed the skeletons of 415 African slaves.
According to GSA Administrator Richard G. Austin, plans for the four-story building have been scrapped
and in its place will be a museum, memorial or monument that will respectully preserve that site not
only for the African-American community in New York, but for the rest of the nation. Archaelogists
estimate 600 African slaves' remains are in the 18th century common burial ground in lower Manhattan.
Archaelogist caltthis colonial-ear cemetery the most significant historical find in the nation this century.
. See JAPAN, A10
Talk of II Homoqeneou
Japann .di gui e lts
own di crimination
stmllated the indigenous Ainu
people who inhabited Hokkiaido,
the northern most island of the
, country, colonized Koreans in the.
early 20th century "treating them
like second class citizens in their
own land" a�d has "refused to
open Japan' to refugees and
migrant workers from abroad."
He added in its own country,
"the Japanese society has created
finely tuned systems of social
stratification in which vestiges of
the caste like system are the most
infamous."
By RON SEIGEL
Correspond nt
minority population in Japan, with
a population size of three million
in 6,000 communities.
"They are physically and ethni­
cally indistinguishable from other
Japanese people," he said. "They
speak the same language, have no
discernible action."
The only way to find out
whether someone is in this clas is
to check their kinship, origin,
residential location or occupation.
He says, that families and
employers, who wi h to practice
di crimination, hire detective
agencies to trace the ancestral
origins of prospective employee
or marriage partners.
A Japanese professor and civil
rights leader wrote in the July
issue of FOCUS that Japanese
prej udices against African
Americans and of discriminatory
policies of African Americans in
the United States resulted from
"troublesome mindsets" resulting
from Japan's record of dis crimina­
tion of minorities, a history that in
many ways parallels the U.S.
In an article published in Focus
Magazine, a magazine published
by the Joint Center for Political
and Economic Studies, a non
profit research institute on public
policy issues of special concern to
African Americans, Dr. Yasumasa
Hira awa of Japan's Osaka
University, also described ties be­
tween Japanese and American
civil rights organizations.·
Dr. Yaumasa Hiraswa stated,"
Japanese society has forcibly as-
DR. HlRASA WA, who holds
a Ph.D in education from Harvard,
is an associate professoratJapan's
Osaks University and is a leader in
the Buraku Liberation League,
representing the outcast group,
imilar to the untouchables in the
Indian caste y tern.
The Buraku or Burakurnin
people, he says are the largest
DATA BANKS ARE main­
tained and compute lists of the
names o( those of Buraku origin
are ecretly purchased.
The oppression started, he said,