A propo al to drop the
p entation of the Am rican
flag during an ROTC
ceremony ha r mained un­
changed de pite objections.
Board member· Kw me
Kenyatta, who boyco ed
Tue day' flag cerem ny
pre nted by ROTC tud
from Finn y High School,
remains taun hly opp ed to
th ceremony.
"The problem I have i that
we a board that stands for
(the African principle of)
MAAT," Kenyatta said in a
recent Detr it ew arti le,
"The Amencan flag doe not
r�pre ent truth, balance and
order. We hould includo
flags .r e'pre enting all
ionalitie in the district,
tarting with red, black and
green flag."
The board will vote on both
practice Feb. 9 when it
decide by-law change.
By MATT TRA TTON
C.plt.' N.w. S.rvlc.
ray in prison,
r TE N1 , L
and purchase ed to certified,
minority-owned busine decreased
from 3.1 milli n r 7.4 percent of all
ntra ts in f cal year 1 to 113
milli n or 4 percent in fiscal year 1
1, ace rding to Michigan Equal
I
Department 0 Cerrectiors pok
man Warren Williams id th new
Parol Board has grea r direct
countability in term of its parole
decisions ahd are makin ure that 11
ing mem r 0 people en rin t
system and many of hav long r
mandatory n nces.
Carson City Regional R
d n Rich Johnson . d he
pris n i d in OK in light 0
that' oin on through ut
and nationally.
"Tbere are thi
Bert Andrews,
visual theatre
griot, dies
Bert Andrew , Performing
art photographer who
chronicled the events 0 .Black
theatre inc 195 ,died of
to mach can er thi week.
The Sch m urg Center for
r earch in Bla 'k Culture in
Manhattan has a llection of
3,0 0 f. Andrew'
ph tographs and is con idcred
th lar t d urncntation of
the contemporary Bla k
theatre m vcment, ac ordi ng
to Dr. H ward D d on, chief
f the nter.
Formerly on writer,
singer, and dancer, he began
studying photography while in
the army. Andrew' work i
c llected in a hook, "In the
Shadow 0 the Great White
Way: Image or the Black
Theatre" (1 . Ther are no
urviv
Police f�tally
shoot Black
mentally ill man
DhJ'ROIT- ter claimin
t hat Corn I i us tan 1 e v; a
chizophr ni man who had
noll 'en taking hi. medication
had threaten d then! with a.
01 c, tv 0 white 0 tr It poll
fl . fatally. hot the 39-
ycar- Id man,
P Ii am edatthcStanley
he me a 'tcr unlc. refused to
come ut 01 an up tarrs
cdr m. Officers then kick­
ed the door In and .ntcrcc the
r om with their uns dra n.
Stanley b an tn, rant nd ray
and, th n , rca he d dov n
t ward hi. n zht ankle. When
he . (It hack up, he had some­
thin ; i'l hi n ht hand. P lice
cit I 1 ,t w,,� a knife t uuh
tar',' ,tcrfath r. J hn
SWt I) u uldn't tell what it
\ a .
t fi .cr then tried to (n-··
vine tanlc r to dr P the ai­
le cd kni f b t h a move
forward and they sh t him In
th che t. He a" d «d n ar­
rival. t Hcnr Ford H( sp: tal.
j. ;11
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TH P RO �80 W
completely revised by an executive rder
from Gov. Engler and first met in early
ovember.
The revision took pia following a
nwn r of where) d inma
committed murders.
Warren aid th imp
decisions is' not necessarily itive or
negative, but it could slow th release of
prisoners out of the ystem.
Warren added that th Whole ituation
ron AID TIl are n
pecific programs being implemented
now except for neral evaluations of the
ontire pri n.
W worth
may have to
BY DAVID PACE
ASSOCIA TED PRESS WRITER'
is ditllcult to
• but there i an in-
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J hn Kmght.
Knight fine hed third behmd Hilliard
c nd , tat en. Hank and of clma 10
the 7th Oi trict Demo rati Prim ry lei! (
umrner, Reed and the AD b ked
th
nirovcrsi sum undinz uh R' d and
. Amn ton when he lured them.
"I kn w that c h one of them �
en somewhat mvolvcd in a parti ular
suuati n that may ha e rotten attcnti n
bccau e or the hi zh pr file f th rr
p ren ," he Id," ut they are g
individuals and I think they'll d a
JOh.
"Then: rna be some .oplc wh
will he ups ,t 'WIth m r lunn J them)
hut I trunk that the Will only a
rmrorit .. ' he. aid.
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With rrunoritic , W men and handicap­
pcr-. hI' alcrun J them t state contra IS.
"The arc target d groups.' RLC hton
. aid,
Holme ... cxpccLI\ a em .. d at th
we rk.. s h 'p, I r turrx ut f llows res rse.
Holmes . aid" he hopes minonty b i-
, 'S al. find out where they will
In nne with the new int n administra­
tion durin the workshop. Federal in­
free tructurc c( ntra � c uld he
Shabazz visits
Malcolm's
namesake
D�lR IT-Dr. Betty
Sha azz received the royal t}
treatment after vi ting the Mal­
colrn X Academy, one of th
ix African centered ch I in
Detroit.
Dr. Shabazz w invitedto
Detroit by all mey Gre Jory J.. •
Reed, the ttomey wh pur­
cha ed Alex Haley' on inal
manus ript 0 the Aut biog­
raphy of Malcolm X, and Clif-
ford Wat on, th principal of
the Academy. habazz at 0
v�. itcd the :Imp of crural
Michi an Uruv rsuy durin
her vi it.