Detroit
D troit residents Irene Bell and Bess Sims enjoy their lunch during spring fashion presentation.
Renai sance Ch �er Link ,'nc. board m mber � from' ft lnetude: A.uxv Dick on (co-
chair), Yvon 0 gers (chair), Jean Miller (pre Id nt) and Joann Washington (co-chair).
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Over SIX hundred \ omen att .ndcd '(I spnn T
fa hion pre .ntauon March _7 ho. t .d b� l lud­
sons : nd the R .nai: sancc 'hapt .r Lmks, lncor­
porat '(I.
The 'old-out crov d pi .d cd over ··1 .... ( ) 111
up rt for () 'us Ho ,'!o. Fast Track Program, a
sewn and one-halt week program d 'si mcd to
upgru lc the acadcnuc skills of recent high sch 01
grad�lates and other young adult. . lncl ud d in the
amount or pledge. \ as ,,'1 J 0 donated by Hti -
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Ill' t \ ere abo tr .atcd to a champagne recep­
tion. beauty 1< iks lrorn Esicc Lauder, a full lunch,
glfLc.; an t door pnzcs.
om merchants
don't ge i :. iI
By PATRICIA COLBERT
Special to the Michigan Citizen
l>1·:-rR01T -
c mmurury ci ort at dean-up b .can.
One cxarnpl I� John R. Food
Market. ] ( )·10 J hn R. v n 'r 01 the
market, \ ho refused to 'I c his
nam . referred to Malt k . 1. cl
Shabazz, pre id nt of M FIF c he­
in "pick irunn " (a word u .... cd h�
f rm .r . l av c ()\ ncr to I I n \
American ''In c .... ). and Ilnkrnl hlrll
out of hI!'. vtorc.
Shahi.n and hi .... chic .e- .... lj t.mt
Gabnal K ·n).t ct. lctt It C .... tOf' I 'I
not b 'lor' notll'tn: a dead r,1 \\ cd T(.'U
c'n the food .h'l\c :On tr1l'lf
• A I d 1 ro m I 0 \\ I 0 do r . d II t y
tloors. rottl n r prod u 'C, dea fll '\
around pop CO( I 'r., he ow ner aho
had a n atl\.' attltud' tm aftj the
ommumty.
. LSO RE 1. Tn. I) \\'�IS Fo<
World. 11 �_ - \ ood\\ drd, \\ h rL
oluntecr.\ lound. pa .... t·d,llCU mCd.
hi" .In I tra� h In par In!! il) .Ind
cmp!o 'C(! .... \ Ith ne at!\ 'd II uk .... n­
ward hc (.'()mmum� .
I t h' I \' (I n I ()' F nIH I (\' n t t' r .
I 2K I I \\ ()(H.".\ .1((1. 'om m' 11m II'
. sp 'cto� IOlln 11M .... ddt'd m 'c! • tlc-
omp cd calf liver, dirty meat tnt) .....
dead Ili . tr, h and II th under m 'cit
ountc and past dated pork prod­
u ts. Althou III th ire \ .rc : cvcral un­
ani tar c nd i n o n Io unu. the
mana cr had a po Iti c attitud ' emd
t ned tempi. immediately.
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'0\ ember _-. 1 ( �. om: HI­
ntt� I cctorx reported decomposed
bacon. rat ft'lc'. din) m \It Ttl) .
h Ie In th !lOOT a.' wcl! as tm� h.
Dan-Dec Market. H II 0 Ma . had
mul i-,;p 'CIC ot hu II 11In r (.'()oler .
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Food World. 11 tL5 \ oath ard
had a loul odor. parnally trozen meat
d U' to Improper rct'n cran n. no
i dc nu ttcauon on pa 'kat} .d hog­
maw and .ht: 'rlIng'" and th" park­
I nu lot \\ � .... lull 01 hoi '\.
FlH dh ncr upcrrnark 't. 113�
12th. had I ro/ .n out-ot -dat pI 7 cars.
latcd a tarbuck a:--. December 1 92
an I t'ilth. pla tIC <tn; s : .rvm 1 as a
cover lor th . mea .ool 1"1.
It I .... I,mpo .... iblc for an on }roup
or or aruzation to monitor the many
lo( d -torc (P .raung un lcr unsarn­
tar, con tiuorrs.It \ III take the forts
ot the enure ornmunnj to brinu
ahout a .hangc,
11 0\.1 arc a m .rchant t I 'It o crate
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Yvonne Rodger (left), Renai
Detroit.
ance Chapter Unk , Inc. chair, talk with Ruth Billing la of
_Center to Prevent Hano Ull Violence _
GiJn Violence in the
African American
Community
Homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males aged 15 to 24,
according to the Centers for Disease Control. Firearms are involved in
approximately 80% of these hom icides,
One in every 28 Black males born 'in 1987 are likely to be murdered.
white m ales the ratio is one in 205, (CDC)
A young Black male is nine times more likely to be murdered than a
young white male, according to the CDC. '
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The homicide rate among Black men aged 15 to 24 rose by 66% from
1984 to 1987, according to the CDC. And 95% of this increase was due to
firearms-related murders.
In 1990, 93 percent of the Black murder victims were· slain by Black
offenders, (FBI, Uniform Crime Report)
Nearly half (48%) of all Black teenage mares who died in 1988 were killed
with guns, compared to 18 percent among white teenage males, (National
Center for Health Statistics) •
For Black males aged 15 to 19, firearm homicides have increased 125
percent since 1984. (FBI, Uniform Crime Reports),
A 1990 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found
that young men in Harlem are less likely to live to age 40 than their
counterparts in Bangladesh.
Accordin,g to the National Pediatric Trauma Registry, gunShot wounds
among chlldren in urban �reas nearly doubled between 1987 and 1990,
The percentage of violent crimes' against Blacks in which the offender
had a gun was nearly twice the percentage of violent crimes in which whites
·were the victims in which whites were the victims (11 % versus 20%).
. (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
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