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and Dominique R. Pace (Renaissance) First place winners each
received a 150 Savings Bond. Other participants h received a $75
Savings Bond. The debates were organized by the Association of Black
Judges, the Wolverine Bar Association and the D. Augustus Staker Bar
Association.
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Let The Debates Begin
I n memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Detroit high school students
participated Monday in the finals for the first Martin L her King Drum
Major for Justice Debate. Finalist were ( back raw): Tombi Stewart
(Cass Tech.), Karla L Palmer (Cass Tech.), Jason Keenan Orr, first
place winner (Renaiasance). Front rem: Equilla Slaughter first lace
ACLU: Police effort
to curb begging
violates civil right�
By RON SEIGEL \
Michigan Citizen
DETROIT - The American
Civil Libertie Union (ACLU)
charge that" new Detroit police ef­
fort again t begging violate
freedom of peech guaranteed by
the constitution and po e a threat to
civil rights.
Officer Rhonda Madi on fr m
the Public Information Department
said that th law against begging
was already in place, but that Chief
Stanley Knox decided to enforce it
more trictly, because orne
criminals pretended to be hungry
and de titute.in order to rob good
intentioned people who tried to
help.
Madi on added that police 0[­
fleers were told to give tho who
were homelc information about
food banks and helters,
Some nave expre ed doubt that
there are enough f ilitie to take
care of everyone requiring help,
particularly after Michigan Gover- .
nor John Engler' deci ion to
eliminate Gen ral As i tance vast­
ly increased tho e unable to pay
rent.
KENNETH HILTON, a
cooperating attorney for ACLU,'
aid hi concern safeguards
protecting freedom of speech.
"A plea for help on th street is
a crime," he said. "You can be .
homeless or hopele .but don't tell
anyone about it. Don't ask orne­
one on the street for help. Yoirhave
to go to a center or organization, in
order not to hold yourself open to
be charged for a crime."
H� added that asking for thi
help had the arne penalty a
hop lifting. .
The penalty for a mi demeanor
could be up to day in jail or a
500 fine. He que tioned h w
SeeACLU,A8
o plan n
rvanc ,conv
i n I
nion
,
ob
By TUREKA TURK
Mlchlaan Citizen
planted reparations bill' one p
toward add ing the i of the
national conv ntion. N'COBRA
et a tenative d adU for tion for
August 1994.
R parati ns arene Day, a
lim for 10 al c mmuniti to g t
togeth rand di us . u on the
modem reparati ns movement,
be n et tor February 25th. It marks DROIT CO G MAN
th s cond nationally ob rved repara- John Conyers will re-introduce hi
tion a tivity of 1 3 and i evidence reparations bill this month. Co yers
of th growin trength 0 th move- requested that the bill be numbered
ment led by N'COBRA (National Hou e Bill "40", ignifying the
Co lition of Blacks for Reparations in modem struggle for the equivalent of
America). 40 cres nd a mule.
. N'COBRA' major national con- N'COBRA w founded in 1989,
venti n will be h ld June 11 through> hortly after the U.S. Co ted
the 13 in Bat n Rouge, Louisiana and to pay $20,000 to each Jap per-
will be coordinated by Ms. Johnita son or d cendent who w legal
Scott . B ton Rou e. r ident of the United States during
World War II but had been thrown in
U.S. concentration camps and robbed
of their property for up to four years.
But Black people' d been fighting
for reparatio for atm t a hundred
years before N'COBRA's founding;
according to Detroit historian Chris­
topher Alston.
Also joining in the truggle for
rep rations are the Nation 0 lam,
Queen Mother M re :of w York,
Attny. Robert Broc of
By RON SEIGEL
Michigan Citizen
Peter R. Breggin, MD, director of
the Center for the Study of P ychiatry
in Bethe da, Maryland expres ed
fears that incoming U.S. President Bill
Clinton may be pressured into agree­
ing to a "Fasctsttcauy oriented tudy"
proposed by cientists researching
whether African American are·
genetically violent, inve tigating
babie for violent tendencies and
doing "biochemical tudie" on
children.
Breggin aid what wa being
p po ed was worse than the con­
tr ve ial Federal Violence Initiative
undertaken by the Bush Admini tra­
tion, because it would start out with
babie and-the council wanted it to
become a "big national priority' in
1 4."
He aid these u tions came
from a report of the National Re earch
Council of the National Academy of
Science I which was four years in the
zcncucall lent and wh ther
male arc m I bioi gically vi lent
than female'.
- "Bio h mi al" tudie be used
where "cthi ally fe: ible."
Breggin e pre eel concern that
thi meant using drugs.
See VIOLENCE, A'"
makin and propo sed the f llowing:
- Inner city children h uld
tudied [rom the tim they ar infants.
-Inve tigations would made t
determin wheth r Black p rsoru are
,
x
U obloqraphy
.. -
-
BY JIM IRWIN
AS SOCIA TED PRESS WRITER
o TROIT (AP)- Mal­
colm X w years ahead of
hi time an urging economic
self- ufficicncy for African
Americans, but hi writi ngs
on the topic weren't included
yb
in hi. publi shed autobio zra­
phy, a Detroit att mcy ay .
The au n of I lam
leader di 'lC sed "econ mi
parity" JO th drafts of "The
Auto iography 0 Malcolm
X," hut the published v r­
sion did not In Iud them,
Ii
f
,
Gregory Reed sai� Monday.
. Reed obtained the manu­
script ... along with an unpub-
1 i hcd introd uction to the
biography, at an October
1 2 au tion of material be­
longing to Alex Haley, w ho
S ,MX BEUEFS, P A-I
Q.
HasCnnton
gone back,
on hi word
concerning
he Hai ians?
WINONA HUMPHREY: "Of
cour not. cnnton h s to do
a needs essment before
can make a decision."
