. 'Prai e I
lrnpor d dally,
from rhe fres ,
clean, healrhy
orers 0 Conodc'
T
Den' S
writer and D reporter fer the
Angel Sentinel, are linear
toLogan' .
S tzman
her of the Bla p for over 22
y.H thLATim
made an attempt to implement
. milar idea by publishing a
. on called the City Tim .
"It's just competition but they
on't last for a couple of reasons.
One, they still can not do the
'BedRock' type of covera the
B' y
co clmrch and i i-
mate details about the Blac
community. Generally speak
ing, people are not trusting of
'Goliath'. The roit news and
the LA Times has a bad reputa
tion with til Black community,"
id Schatzman.
"They're still corporate Amer
ica so they're ill going to run
,that section like they run their
paper because leopards don't
change their spots,· aid
Schatzman.
Sunnie Wilson, one of De
troit's most uceessful and re
spected Black businessmen of
t 1930s commented on the his
tory of the Detroit ews' cover
age of Blacks.
continued from peA 1
pe by less drastic means
through an across the board cut
in salaries and elimination of
some administrative positions.
JOHN 0 AID THAT by
May she was "bombarded by
calls" from citizens complaining
about garbage conditions. Some,
she said, threatened to burn
their own garbage in prot ,
hich could have caused severe
safety problems. She said her ac
tion prev nted this by focusing
. public attention on the probl m
and getting the administration
to take som action on pickups.
Citizens are complai ning that
garbaga i till a rious p b
lem. Johnson wen to Highland
Park District Court on July 26,
but jurisdiction was changed to
another court. She said h did
not hen the trial would
take place.
She said be may have a fine
of $50 for a fi t offense, but he
will refuse to pay and go 0 jail,
for th sake of principle.
Johnson noted thi was the
30th annive ry of the year
Martin Luther King went to a
Birmingham jail in civil disobe- '
dience to pro t gregation
la
n't the first person to do
. be id,