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 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. 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