Agreement
reached to return
Aristide to Haiti'
GO LA n y-
An int mationally backed agree­
ment w hed in e« York
recently, which ould offi 'ally
return 0 ted Haitian Presid nt
Jean-Bertrand Aristid power
onOcto r30.
The a rd W' ted by
Ansnd and Lt. Gen. Raoul Ce­
d -th rnmander of the
military leade who verthrew
Aristid in 1 1.
The Hai tian mili tary had n
und r maj riot mationa! pres­
ure to all w Aristid to return
nd t re d m racy. How­
ever, qu tiers remain to
whether the military will go
a1 n WIth t agreem nt. Haiti
i a pred minantly Blae island­
nati n which (or years bas been
ruled by � mall group 0 rich
Haitians and a corrupt military.
Most m mbers of that elite
view th popularly elected Aris­
tide a threat to their itiors
f power and weal th,
,.
wee
id nt ore rep-
2 African nations
itb 7 H Stat pent and
ed that they flnd a way fo r Africans
in th di pora to b in Iud d.
M 1m tated that mo to the
African lead rs did not want to give
him a pi tfonn for fear that th ir aid
from the W t would threatened
and they may of meddling
in th int mal affairs of another na­
tion.
Presid nt R lin in hi tate-
ment aid in a clear and deliberate
manner, try our Excellenci in our
changing world, we hould and must
find a way to includ all the OIlS and
daught IS of Africa in buildin and
moving our i ti forward.
o origin."
It n v r to amaze m on
how you could have 52 repre-
entatives 0 Governments together
with 7 Head of S tate, and they can
barely get a mention in the west m
pr . Africa bas become a point of
focus by its om and daught rs who
were natched away from the conti­
nent by the horrors ofth Slave Trade.
Today, we see many Africans, in
Arneric the Caribbean and Brazil
trying to reconnect with Africa. The
western press h not in the pass nor
in the present, given a balanced report
on Africa or African affairs.
THE BlACK P has a great
role in thi press. The more informa­
tion we have, the more it can e
Mini ter Lou
African R pr
Farrakhan i pictur d with aryum Muhamm d and Akbar uhammad an
nt th( of Min t r Farrakhan and the Nation of I I m.
shared, unlike the way 0 western tel Angola
vision and daily new ,who highlight \ The way the western pr reports
civil w and bloodshed; the killing in on Africa, one would think that there
Liberia and Somalia, the struggle in is no other news on the African conti­
South Africa, c�ifying Sudan as a nent This is why the words of Pres i­
new terror state, the election chao in dent Rawlings tatement on our behalf
Nigeria, the problem of strikes in hould and must be news in our com­
Togo and the madness of Savimbi in munity even if the Western Media
iving "pro '0
congr man who
o i lack
W "IN , - In the Ian-
. guage of the hip-hop gen ration, giving
a pe' on their "proper" or "prop"
means giving omeone proper respect.
New York Congres man Edolphus
(Ed) Towrs d rves his "prep ".
It was Towrs, a Brooklyn repre-
ernanve, wooled the camp ign to save
the AB -lV itcom "Where I Live," a
Black coming-of-age comedy a ut a
young African American man growing
up in Harlem. ,
The how, which aired at 9' 0 p.m ..
on Fridays 1 t ea OIt tats hip-hop
arti t Doug E. Doug.
"Where I Liv "was rep rtedly con-
idered for cancellan n by ABC exccu­
tiv unnl the congr , man did some
grassroots m thzm t intlucn the
network.
ABC has rewed thc series. It is
scbedulcd to air aturday rughts at :30
p.m. this fall.
Towns helped to or anize cw
Yorkchurchgroup , fell w mcm rs of
the Congres I nal B1 k Caucus, and
listen rs of 11 WLIB-AM, a New
York Bla k n -talk radio ration, into
a force powerful e u h t make ABC
listen.
"Thi w a uccessful collective
grnsslU?ts campaign, using Black radio,
.Black Supreme
Court justice
called 'traitor'
WASHINGTON, -In the
wake of two recent U.S. Su­
prem CoW1 rulings widely con-
idered harmful to Blacks, the
only Black member on the high
court i the target of increasing
criticism. In both controversial
rulings Justice Clarence Thomas
could have provided the wing
vote to defeat the anti-Black ruJ­
in .
Instead, Thomas voted with
the court' conservative major­
ity. In the first case two weeks
ago, the court in a 5 t 4 ruling
made it more difficult legally for
an employee to prove discrimi­
nation. And. in the econd recent
ruling, the court in another 5 to 4
dcci ion held that congres ional
di tricts drawn up t nefit
Blocks may uncorstitunonal.
Black new paper olumni ts
around the country have de­
nounced what they label
Th rnas ' "anti-Bla k voting
p ttem." One. aid of Tbomas,
"He h' written opiniors which
ound more like a white man
than a Black man."
. Black-led
group fails to
unseat NOW
I
leadership
B N, MA-A Black-led
slate this m nth failed in a bid to
u eat the current leade hip 0
the nation largest women's
ri hts rganization. Th late led
y EGa Nwangaza, from Green­
Ville, South Carolina, included
tw ther African Am ricans
and one white woman.
But, i id to capture the
leadership of th National Or­
anization for Women (NOW)
W oundly defeated. Th
OW leadership had been ec­
c ed f not f usin enough at­
tention on th needs 0 poor
women. Outsiders a use th
group of in led by radical
feminis and I bians.
d eIS or n glee to mention it.
A. Akbar Muhammad, Interna­
. tional Represeniative o/The Nation 0/
Islam, P.O. Box 0921, OSU-Accr�
Ghana West Africa.
aved
as food for thought for
Black people cry about
how power! they are agairst th big,
bad white media
NAACP chapter
wants apology
BALTIMORE <APr- The local
ctq>1er of the NAACP would like
to hear the organizations leeders
apologize for endorsing Cnarlone,
N.C's bid for a National Football
League franchise.
"I t ld him (a national repre-
entative) nothing short of an out­
and-out edrnittarce that they male
a mistake and that they owe this
city and this �te and this chapter
an apology will do," said George
N. BuntinJr., executive director of
the NAACP's Baltimore branch.
The National Associanon for
the Advancement of Colored Peo­
ple, which has i headquarters in
Baltimore, announced an agree­
ment Thursday.
tors, and their immediate upervi-
rs in the Atlanta Project, are
Black. Two Blacks are on th ix­
member-resource group for the pro­
ject.
Contributors have given a ut
$1 million in cash and pledges for
th five-year life of th project.
About 60 percent of that goes forthe
salari and benefi of coordi nators
and assistant coordinators. I
Carter recently announced the
expansion of th project' advisory
committee from 25 t 36 members
to deal with policy i. u. and con­
cerns uch a tho e rai ed by
Springs.
"We were broadening th power
b e wi th th expansion of the advi­
sory committee and tried to create a
vehicle to addres orne of the i -
su that are comin up now," said
Douglas Dean a member of the
advi ory mmittcc and a leader in
Summ rhill. one of Atlanta' oldest
Black communities.
"It' a tra edy that thi i sue of
ra keep omin up," he aid.
"Every time we 'pend time talking
about raci m, we arc d nying om -
body out there in the neighborhood
the opportuni ty to change thei r 1 ife. "
Sprin rai cd hi concerns last
week in-a peech to Atlanta Project
lcade
Atlanta revival plan
called too white
GAM
ATlANTA (AP) - Atlanta Pro­
ject, former President Jimmy Car­
ter' organization to fight ocial ills,
.. .. . .
will look Into comp runts by ay
Springs Jr., a coordinator for one of
the pro'eel' cluster communities,
that there i not enough Black in­
volvement in decision-making.
Springs also wants to know why
donations cannot be used to create
what neighborhoods want and need
rnosr-i-jobs.
"This w never meant to be a
giveaway project," Jim Brasher a
special assistant to Carter, aid
Thursday. "The whole concept is to
assist people in doing the things
they are unable to do for themselves
--identify problems and identify
new olutions to tho e problem ."
Dan Sweat, program dircctorfor
the project, appointed the commit­
tee to address Springs' concerns.
"It caught everybody by ur­
pri e," Sweat aid. "Thi organiza­
tion is all about diversity. We are
trying to build an organization to
provide for everybody to work to­
gether, and we are going to continue
to do that."
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