the post-l990 census-redi tricting
and the 1982 amendments to the
1 5 Voting Rights Act
The new, majori ty-Black
congre ional di trict are:
Alabama-Seventh-Birmingham;
Florida-Seventeenth-Mi mi and
Third-Jac on, Orlando;
Georgia-Eleventh-Atlanta, and
Second-Macon, Albany;
Loui iana-Fourth-Shreveport,
Monroe, Baton Rouge;
Maryland-Prince George's
County; North
Carolina-Fir t-Fayetteville,
Wilmington; Twelfth-Charlotte,
Durham, Greensboro,
Winston-Salem; South Carolina­
Si th-Columbia, Charle jon;
Texas- Thirtieth-Dallas, and
Virginia- Third-Richmond,
Newport News an� Petersburg.
-The
Centers for D Con­
trol, a national earch
turned up an dditional nine
case of people with AIDS­
like illn but without the
human immunodeficiency
virus. Thi brings to 14 the
total of uch es reported .
and confirmed by the CDC.
Unf Ir
advertl ement
DETROIT - Superinten­
dent Deborah McGriff and
school board President
Frank Hayden signed an ad
that criticizes some union
leaders, saying the Detroit
Federation of Teachers
coalition hould stop trying
to under mine their efforts.
The teacher union
president aid t� full-page
advertisement a misuse
of public money and an at­
tempt to pick a public argu­
ment
The ad denied sugges­
tions that empowerment­
giving school staff and
parents control of educa­
tional and financial
deci ions-i the only
school improvement plan.
CHICAGO-Three
Alderman (Allan Streeter,
Dorothy Tillman and
Bobby Rush) removed a
painting of the late Mayor
Harold Washington dressed
in lingerie violating the stu­
dent artist's constitutional
rights, a Federal district
judge has ruled.
The' painting was hung
in a 1988 students' exhibi­
tion at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, but
was confiscated by the
police that May, when the
three Aldermen stormed in
and said it disgraced the
former Mayor and
threatened public order.
Mr. Washington bad died of
a heart attack a few months
earlier.
The three Aldermen,
who are' Black, said in court
documents that the painting
"incre8$ed tensions in the
African-American com­
munity to the point where
violence on the cale of the
1960's West Side riots w
imminent."
Unfair murder
trial
CROSS cITY-AD unjust
racially charged trial of five
Black men on charges of
third-degree murder In
which the triggerman-a
white man-was convicted
of a lesser charge started
recentl y w� th a security
force of 30 state, local and
military police present to
stand and watch.
The five Black men are
charged with third-degree
murder, rioting, felony
criminal mischief and bat­
tery in the rural north
. Florida community.
Jody Akins, the white
man, was convicted of
manslaughter and sen­
tenced to 17 years in prison
for the fatal shooting ofTer­
ranee Rutledge, the same
staying in which the Black
suspects are charged.
The five Black men are
charged because police said
they helped start the fracas
that resulted in Rutledge'
death however, Atkins was
the triggerman.
By LARRY STILL
S
Loui ina, Alab m , Georgi ,
Florida and orth Carolina, Bo itis
dds.
t lea t twelve more, new
African American members of the
United State House of
Repre entative in Washington,
D.C., could be elected in the 1992'
national balloting in November as a
result of congressional redistricting
procedures, according to a recentl y
released report of the Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studie .
All of the new districts are in eight
southern tate and Maryland, in
addition to about 100 new,
majority-Black state legi lative
districts created in these areas. "This
year is expected to be a watershed for
BI ck legislators at both state and
federal levels, " says David Bositis,
senior research associate for the
JCPBS. '
Candidates Carol Mosely
Braun's U.S. Senate race in lllinois
and Ralph Campbell' campaign for
state auditor in North Carolina will
generate much enthusiasm in all
African-American communities
since their victories would represent '
"political fiIS�", says Bositis.
Also, a large number of Black and
white women candidates are making
major appeals to Black voters, in
addition to southern white
Democratic Senate incumbents in
E 0 T, "Blac and th
Democratic ational Convention,"
was prepared to a ist current
delegate and participant in
carrying out their responsibilities
and in nalyzing Black political
behavior. The Center prepared
similar volumes for Democratic and
Republican convention, participants
ince 1972, said Eddie Williams,
JCPES president.
The new "Southern Strategy" of
the 1992 Democratic party is
obviously highlighted by the
nomin tion of Gov. Bill Clinton of
Arkansas and Sen. Al Gore of
Tennessee in a historic unified
appeal to white and Black voters of
the area under Atricen-American
leadership of DNC chairman Ronald
H.Brown.
The South is the region where the
Black vote is the largest. The eligible
Black electorate i greater than 20
percent of the total of the 11 states of
the Old Confederacy: Mi si sippi
(33 percent), Georgia (27),
Louisiana (27), South Carolina (26),
Alabama (22) and North Carolina
(21). .
However, Black turnout in all
12 new Black members of
Congress would up Black Caucus
membership from 28 to 40
Nationwide there are 20,371 ,000
eligible Black voters
.In 1988, 64.5% Blacks were
registered, 51.1 % voted
Democratic contest wa
considerabl y lower this year than in
1988, the JCPES notes. During the
primary campaigns, the absence of a
Black candidate parked much
concern among Blac party leaders
and comments by political pundits
about how the Reverend Jes e
Jackson had mobilized 0 many
Black voters in previous campaigns.
If the presidential balloting w
the only election thi fall, the
Rice Hosiery of High Point, NC, presented a $1,000 check for the Delta Sigma Theta National
Sqholarship Fund at the sorority's 41 st National Convention in Baltimore, MD. participating In the
presentation were Oeft to right): Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Past National President of Delta Sigma Theta;
Dr. Yvonne Kennedy, Immediate Past National President of Delta Sigma Theta; Dr. Camille Cosby,
Keynote Speaker and Honorary Member of Delta Sigma Theta; Cynthia Johnson, Manager of Sales
and Mar�eting for Rice Hosiery and a member of Delta Sigma Theta.
Jylla Moore Fo ter elected
president of Zeta Phi B ta
election to that position at the'
1990 Zeta convention in St Louis.
She has been an active and
financial member of Zeta Phi Beta
ince her induction in 1973. Over
the years; she has served the
orority as Third Vice President,
National Directory of Budget &
Finance, ational Treasurer, and
National Chair of the Executive
Board.
Foster succeeds Dr. Eunice S.
Thomas, who had served as Grand
Basileus for ix years.
JYLLA MOORE FOSTER
Charlotte-Jylla Moore
Foster, of Cincinnati, Ohio was
elected Grand Basile us
(president) of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, Inc. at the organization'
72nd Anniversary convention.
More than 2,000 Zetas
. attended the four-day convention,
ho ted by Delta Zeta Chapter in
Charlotte.
Foster, Branch Manager for
mM Career Development for th
Great Lakes area, had served the
sorority at National Chair of the
Executive Board since her
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hi tory rewarded
declining Black voter turnout would
be a real concern, but the White
House is apparently not the only
office of intere t to African
Americans, JCPES official ay. The
significant number of new Black
elected officials who can win office
in 1992, especially in the South, can
be expected to stimulate a izeable
Black turnout. This is because the
1992 election will be the first
national voting to be affected by both
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Joan Bac­
chus Maynard, who for more than
two decades has fought indifference,
thievery and the ravages of time to
preserve a fragile piece of African­
American history in Brooklyn, New
York, has recei ed preservation's
highest honor, it was announced by
the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. "
She will be the recipient of the
Louise du Pont Crowninshield
Award. Maynard, a trustee emerita
of the National Trust and executive
director of the Society for the Preser­
vation of Weeksville and Bedford­
Stuyve ant History, is the longtime
protector of four surviving small
farmhouse that constitute
Weeksville-a once thriving pre­
Civil War community created by
freed slave, James Weeks. .
In the earl y 1970' s, the
Weeksville houses, for years ignored
and vandalized, were rescued by
Maynard and others who Saw their
Vi
The National Survival Summit,
an affiliation of over 40
organizations representing
America's Victims of Poverty,
including the National Welfare
Rights Union, the National Union of
the Homeless and The National
Anti-Hunger Coalition will hold a
three day summit August 20 - 23,
hosted by the University of
Detroit/Mercy, to plan state and
national actions on homelessness,
economic justice, the environment,
education, health care, jobs and
hunger.
Many of the people attending the
National Survival Summit were seen
on national public television this
week in the documentary
"Takeover," which featured the
nationwide take over of empty
H.U.D. housing organized by the
National Up and Out of Poverty
Now! campaign in 1990.
Marian Kramer, President of the.
National Survival Summit said:
"This ational Survival Summit was
called for by the Victims of Poverty
who refuse to be brutalized and
THE TWELVE new Black
members of Congres would
increase the Congressional Black
Caucus membership from 28
representatives to 40 in the
535-member U.S. Hou e of
Representatives. The number of
eligible Blae voters nationwide is
currently 20,371,000. In 1988,64.5
percent reported being regi tered
and 51.1 percent reported voting,
according to U.s. Census data.
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I •
potential for archaeological digs and
as a home for a new museum of
African-American heritage.
"For me the restoration of the his­
toric houses of Weeksville provided
us with an opportunity to share our
legacy of pride, strength and deter­
mination with the new generation,"
says Maynard. "I viewed the preser­
vation of these buildings as a tool to
teach about the preservation of a
people."
Last year, heavy damage to two
of the landmark Weeksville struc­
tures was inflicted by thugs who
ripped out walls, dug out water lines
and flooded the building. As in the
past, when Maynard had sought the
help of celebrities such as the late
author Alex Haley, Mrs. Brooke
Astor and Kitty Carlisle Hart, she
once again mobilized concerned
New Yorkers to raise the funds
necessary to rehabilitate the build­
ings.
starved of their basic human rights
any longer.
The National Survival Summit is
about the survival of all our people,
not just the rich, notjust the wealthy,
not just the eight percent who control
80 percent of the wealth in this,
country. 'We, the People ... '
addresses all the people in America,
and we, the people, the Victims of
Poverty, fully intend to have our
voices heard across the land, in the '
inner citie , in rural areas, in the
suburb ,and on the streets."
THE NATIONAL Survival
Summit, which grew out of the Up
and Out of Poverty Now! campaign
held its first Survival Summit in
1989. Since then, Survival Summits
on Poor Women, the Homeless,
Youth and Anti-Hunger have been
key collective across the country in
organizing low-income people to
take action on their own behalf at
state and federal levels.
The theme of the National
Survival Summit is "Under Attack
But Fighting Back."