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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