CI CI ATI, Os-U.s.·
District Judge Herman Weber
bas ruled in favor of la uit
filed by a group 0 African
American voters in Cincinnati.
The law ult charged th t
Cincinnati' at-large ystem of
electing members to the city
council was d criminatory be­
cause it diluted BI c voting
strength and made it harder for
Blac to win election. Judge
Weber agreed and gave the
city until December 31 to ub­
mit a new election procedure.
Carol· .
••• �!lr:ley Braun
getting married?
CHICAGO, IL--!.Chlcago
gossip columnists were busy
with speculation recently that
the first Black woman elected
to the U.S. Senate-Carol
Moseley Braun-was about to
get married.
Braun was not immediately
vailableforcommcntbecause
he was vacationing in South
Africa wi th her campaign
manager, Kgo le Matthews.
Senator-elect Braun and Mat­
thews, who is from South
Afri� have been romanti�lJy_
linked for some time. '
. Clinton cabinet:
Record numbe
. .
of Blacks.
WASHINGTON, Dc-Presi­
dent-elect Bill Clinton's 15-
me r cabinet will include
four Blacks, the largest num­
ber of African Americans to be
named to the top levels of
government in U.S. history.
Fulfi!ling a campaign promise
to nominate a cabinet "which
looks like America," Clinton
selected five white males, four
white females, three Black
men, one Black woman and
two Hispanic males to help
him run the executive branch
of government for the next four
years.
The Blacks in the cabinet
are Jesse Brown, 48, Veteran
Affairs; Ronald Brown, 51,
Commerce Department; Mike
Espy, 39, Agriculture Depart­
ment; and Hazel O'Leary, 55,
Energy Department.
None of the nominees is ex­
pected to have any trouble
being confirmed by the U.S.
Senate.
Food additive.
may 'reverse
sickle cell
symptoms
N, A com-
mon food additive injected
into the blood stream can
reawaken a dormant gene
.and relieve jbe underlying
cause of ickle cell anemia,
the mo t mmon disease af­
fecting African-Americam.
. More te ting will be'
needed to prove that it effec­
tively reverses the ymptoms
of the di ease but researchers
say that hey �ready have
proof that it can entirely COf­
rect thalas ernia, another
. lethal blood disease eaused
by a ' imilar genetic defect,
accordin to a recent article
in The Detroit News.
The treatmentis butyrate,
a natural substance that is
used widely as a food enhan­
cer. Butyrate i not affective
if eaten only if injected into
th blo d. I.re3111 researchers­
say.
. ...
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�WILLlA
RAW ON
boenlx' will mId Us King Day
breakf t at the downtown America
West Arena, the new 2O,<XX)..seat arena
wile the NBA Phoenix Suns play bas­
ketball.
Rose Newso� of the Phoenix Equal
Opportunity Department, which is or­
ganizing the event, said more than 500
inge and dancers will provide emer-,
tainment A continental breakfast will be
served.'
ord r. Mecham did ind the liday
and Wood r kept his word by not tting
foot in tbe stat long there w no
King holiday.
"It's not t in tone if he'll perform
or not," said Fatima Halirn, another f
the breakfast organizers." It' not a
con rt, We're n t planning fo r him t
perf rm. But we're hopin he will and
we'll be prepared if he d
ti
are bein distributed to 0001 children
but everyo else will have to pay $20 to
atteoo.
"We'll need 8,<XX> people to pay for
everyone," sbe said. "But We're hoping
to fill i.
This will be the eighth year Phoenix
has rsored a King breakf t, . d,
adding that 5,<XX> a nded I t year.
PHOIEMX � - Arizona bopes to
put two decades 0 fMtration, boycotts
am embanassment behiOO it this year
it celeb i first official Martin
�r King mlid8y
Arizona voters approved the
holiday in Novem r, m lng New
Ha hire the only tate without a
h day honoring Dr. King. New
Hampshire does celebra a civ il rights
day, and its legislatqre this yearwill con-
ideradding Dr. King' name to that day.
"This will be � first time it's a
celebration instead of a celebration­
pro t," said the Rev. Warren Stewart,
pastor of the Institutional Baptist qturch
in Pboenix and a longtime King mliday
upporter.
The biggest celebrations will be in
Phoenix, where thousarxls are expected
to attend a city-sponsored prayer break­
fast on Friday. Tbe traditional march
from downtown to the state Capitol on
Jan. 18, the actual holiday, also is ex­
J*led \liHjjjM¥o·U"'1iC1
MAR� RAI.LJES, prayer
vigils and co�I1S are planned by cities,
churche and schools throughout
Arizona.
Bu't it will pretty much be bosiress as
usual for the Arizona Legislature, which
struggled with the King holiday for al­
most 20 years.
Although roost of tate government
will close for the holiday, lawmakers and
tb:ir staffs will be at work, legislative
leaders said.
House Speaker Mark Killian, R­
Mesa, said the holiday won't be totally
ignored. He said the House and Senate
will clear their calendars of routine com­
mittee bearings so members can attend
the King Day rally a ro the street from
the Capital and other holiday festiviti .
tmfFIElD, Mk.h. (AP) A civic
group is proposing using low-ime t
mortgag to draw Blacks and whites into
each other's Oakland County neighbor­
hoods.
TIle Oakland County Center for Open
Housing is negotiating with banks to
offer a county-wide low-interest loan
program. The nonprofit group also i
looki ng for grants and other community .
funding.
Lcisa Jo , co-director of the center,
id n banks have committed to the plan
and it i n't kr1 wn, when loans will be
available.
"ID 4 LLY, I !. HAD me-
thingg ingby end of year, we'd like that,
but there' nothing d finite," J nc aid.
.. It may take yea . "
DOZ SOFCELEB�aOO
civil rights leaders also will attend, in­
chx1ing singer Stevie Womer aIX1 Rosa
Parlcs, whose refusal to ride in the rear of
b us touched off early civil righ
demonstrations in Selma, Ala.
"There will be speeches, too, but the
cornerstone will be a tribute to Stevie
Wonder and Mrs. Parks aIX1 the enter­
tainment," Newsome said.
Wonder, who was among the first
entertainers to boycott Arizona over its
failure to enact King holiday, has con- . '-
firmed that he would atteoo the celebra-
tion, Newsome said.
Approval of the ooliday by a 61-39
margin 0 r
state voters rejected two y
measures. The 1990 rejections rein­
forced the boycott, costing the state the .
1993 Super Bowl aoo an estimated $300
million in lost tourism and convention
pending. "
Ironically, as the Nov. 3 election
� ended the boycott of Arizona by King
holiday upporters, ballot results in
anotherw temstatepromptedaboycott
of a different sort.
Colorado voters approved a measure
prohibiting state or local laws that protect
homo exuals against discrimination,
prompting gay-rights groups to organize
a boycott of that state.
Woooer said after a November 1986
ncert in Tucson that he would oot
return to Arizona if then-Gov. Evan
Mecham rescinded the King holiday es­
tablished by hi predecessor's executive
·Group hopes low-interest
,
loans will boost integration·
1be proposal would offer low-interest
financing, regardless of income level, to
whites moving into Black neighborhoods
and Blacks moving-into white nei ghbor-
hoods. f
TIl P OULD STEM racial
polarization, aid Joe Darden, dean of
urban tudi at Michigan State Univer­
ityand a researcher for the center. TIle
1 Census howed Oakland County'
populati n' about 6 percent Black and
• per ent white."
• 'The gregation bctwcenblacks and
whit in Metro Detroit is ootdue to the
inability of Blacks to afford to buy
bous ," Dard n aid. "The separat ion
d n ra . We have todeal with the
Audi ral e que tion
about Detroi ca ina plan
..
The' march from d wntown
Phoenix to the Capi I become an
annual tradi tion. many
people have marched in p t Y rs,
gathering in a park the t from
the Capitol for a daylong rally.
Let Freedom Ring
Dr. King's 1 3Detroit'Fr dom March address at Cobo Hall was forerunner to his famous '" Have A
Dream" sp ch iven In Wa hington.
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·NAACP branch votes
opposition to pirate museum
Mcm rs ft.
lin nof tncan-
E a ut
I t G v. what' right and '\ hat' n', what'.
appropriate and what's not appn pnate,'
Carley. id. ., And thl" wa' COT1\1 cred
t he a rx ornpromn c I �UC.
vcr "Our IT"OlIlHk I d thi. I not (
r mmumt . lt' an in: ult to all
African- m n n pc pie."
. Detroit' reck! wn di strict cnvis i
an Indian- wncd c� in pcrated by an
T \1J',,- Fla. ( » - The Tampa
N (P has otcd to op a pirate
mu cum prop< .d t r the d( wntown
\ at '(front allm 7 It an m ultto Blade.
'( rlcy said mem rs based their v te
n mtormau n from experts on 'can
hi tory and the lave trade. He aid they
. aw the pre [cct (1.\ an •• attra ti n . a
·nou. .... museum."
American Organizations have been
rneetin in Tampa with historians from
round the country fore takin a posi- ,
ti non th project. y' plan to hold a
public h rin on the ubject altbough no
dat h
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