I KWAME KENYATTA
CINDY OWENS
CHAEL P. NEAL
DETROIT-Many D troi r'
d icated a recent w kend to
th legacy of EI Ha.ij Malik El
Shabazz with a th -d y con
� r nce at Wayne S at
University.
Scholars, activists, tuden ,
B1ac and white, and orted
leaders in the African-American
freedom struggle attended the
League of Revolutionary Black
Workers' (LRBW) homage to the
lain Black leader.
"As long as Malcolm' views
are being rejuvenated by young
people, he is not out of OOt ,"
id Abdul Alkalimat of the a
tiona I Organizing Committee
(NOC) during opening remarks.
Chief organizer, founder of
the LRBW and national chair
person of NOC General Baker,
outlined the weekends objec
tives.
"Those of us who were active
in the 1960's when Malcolm was
around have a historic r ponsi
bility to teach the youth of today
about their revolutionary tradi
tions," Baker said. "We are call
ing this conference to recruit
militant freedom fighters from
the youth of today to continue
this legacy." .
DOSHIMA TARDZER, 18,
a W.S. U. freshman, won first
GENERAL BAKER
ERROL HENDERSON
NEW YORK
Skinhead racial violence increases
NEW YORK, NY-The "Skinhead movement" has replaced
the Ku Klux Klan as the nation's most violent white racist
groups .
. According to a report by the Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, various Skinhead groups have committed 22
killings in the past three years while expanding m�D1 hip
into 40 states.
The ADL says it discovered 160 Skinhead gangs ope�ting
around the nation. The biggest Skinhead group are believed
to be located in New Jersey, Texas and Oregon.
pl for p inting of lcolm
X for th NAACP-ACTSO pro
gram. Tardzer had high ho
for h oonf rence, To provoke
young peopl to tart no her
mov m nt .. It' tim for Black
pl to rt ting ck to-
th r. "
In addition to rallying the
troop , th eonf rence offered
ov r 20 workshops ranging from
th lev n of God in retriev
in los job , to the urvival of an
AID -ridden, heavily milita
rized, indebt d Africa, to
wheth r or not a Black Woman's
Mov m nt was n ary fo the
"struggl ."
"It i a movement that is in
tandem with any movement for
liberation of our people," said
Lorna Richards, a young woman
from Toronto. "We largely carry
th burden of everybody el e on
our houlders ... and we pay our
selve back last. The whito
wom n's movement does not
speak to our issues - housing,
childcare - we're not concerned
with wh ther or not women can
tak their hirts off in public."
Th gender-mixed discussion
often rupted in emotional quar
reling, B lack men inserted
their oft n opposing viewpoints.
"W n ed to unify as a people
fi t, not divided into groups,"
aid on mal dissenter.
A workshop examining the
. import 0 Malcolm X in educa-
h ment han
b t n BI c N tionali t
Malik Yakini and a White Wor -
e Le gue member over Afri-
can-Centered Academies.
"MALCOLM WA a Blac
nationalist, and surely his alle
giance w tp his people first,"
said Yakini, "Everything we do
(educationally) must be in our
best interest, not n rily in
opposition to others-we want
to be in concert with others--but
the m ge must be clear that
Malcolm X was first for Black
people, not closer to the white
left. "
The two continued their vol
ley as others including School
Board Member Kwame Ken
yatta and :MX Academy princi
ple Clifford Watson joined in.
A parsely attended work
shop on Nutrition and Health
Care was centered on shrinking
health-care subsidies and the
strategies needed to combat
them:
"We tend to wait until it hap
pens, and then react to it," said
Akua Budu Watkins of the Na
tional Black Women's Health
Project. Watkins was referring
to the need for a preventative
approach to good health. "People
around the country are turning
to more traditional medicine (i.e.
herbs, vegetarianism, holistic
diets). "
ny union on hand x-
p ed nger ov r hrunken
h alth c r p ck g nd
tighter work ' trictions.
"Th t in on workers now
never before, and now your
provider has to agree with your
doctor' diagnoeis ... and 8t
on th job will always be n
differently from the st of an
illn ,. id facilitator Theresa
Soott of the Southern Region: Up
and Out of Poverty Now in At
lanta.
A lively emina aturdayen
titled: "Did Spike Lee Do the
right thing?", in producing the
movie "Malcolm X", featured a
seemingly endless web of pros
. and eons.
"WE HAVE TO EXAMINE
some of the choices Spike Lee
made, regarding editing and
content," said Ron Soott siminar
faculitator. Scott maintained
that a truly 'accurate movie
about Malcolm X could not be
made in Hollywood, and that in
dependent filmakers will con
tinue to be handicapped
financially in any such at
tempts.
That Malcolm X is too large to
be captured in three hours of
moving pictures, to some, said a
lot about the importance of
keeping him alive in celebra-
See MALCOLM, As
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH
MARIAN KRAMER
BRIEFS
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DAVID RAMBEAU
GRACEBOGG
ROBERT WILUAMS
BALTIMORE
Jackson renews demand
for baseball minority plan
WASHINGTON
I
Nation's out-of-wedlock births'
.contlnue to rise, report says
WASHINGTON, Dc-The percentage of Black w men.h ving
babies out-of-wedlock has reached a new high. According to
a Census Bureau study released in June out-of-w lock
Black births jumped to 55.5 percent in 1992. This comp
to 48.8 percent in 1982.' But, the trend is not limit to
Blacks.
The percentage of Hispanic women havingchildr n without
benefit of marriage also jumped to 33 pe n from 22
percent during the same 1 O-year �riod ..
Meanwhile, white women having childr n out-of-w dlock
iner ed from 6.7 percent in 1982 to 14.6 perc nt last:y r.
The r ults are that children born to single women a lik ly
to grow up in poverty, do less well in school nd h v mor
social problems.
LOS ANGELES
FBI says it foiled white racist plot
LOS ANGELES, CA - The FBI reported earlier his month
that its agents had foiled a plot by eight whi supr macist .
to "spar a race war" in Los Angeles area.
The group allegedly planned to assassinate poli. • ting
victim Roc;lney King and machine-gun the congregation at h
city's prominent First AME Church.
Florida burning case opens soon
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