VOL. XVI NO. 12 An Informed People Is A Free People FEBRUARY 6 - 12. 1394
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By CRAIG HILL
Michl n CltlDn
from Philadelphia, music by Ibn
Pori'z Band Unit #10, Grout, Ur­
ban Voodoo Juice, and Mikey
Brown along with poetry by Os­
valdo J. Comalapa, and Willie
Williams. Doors will open at 6
p.m. to 2 p.m. For more informa­
tion call (813) 275-8979.
The movement to free Abu fol­
lowed his conviction in 1982 of
murder for the killing of a Phila­
delphia cop. He was sentenced to
death by Judge Albert Saba.
Readers of the Michigan Citi­
zen newspaper are fami1iar with
Mumia AQu.Jamal's column.
But to those who are not fa­
miliar with Mumia Abu..Jamal
background, he' an award win­
ning journalist, former Minister
of Information of the Philadel­
phia chapter of the Black Pan­
ther Party, and supporter of the
MOVE people.
The Detroit chapter of Refuse
& Resist! is planning a benefit to
rais money to publicize the
plight of Mumia Abu..Jamal. It
will be held on Saturday, Febru­
ary 12 at the Trumbull Theater,
located at Trumbull and Willis,
south of Wayne State University
in Detroit. The ooncert will fea­
ture Ramona and Pamela Africa
IN A WRITTEN account
from Jam Rag's January 19,
1994 newspaper, the shooting
happened on December 9th,
1981, when Mumia saw a Philly
cop viciously beating a man
stopped for 'a traffic violation.
This man turned out to be Mu-
s. JAMAL.A8
GAINESVILLE, (AP) - An
aide to Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan said Univer­
sity of Florida students have no
right to call him racist for a
speech in which he called Jews
bloodsuckers.
"What nerve you have to call
me an anti-Semite. What nerve
you have to call me a bigot,"
Khalid Abdul Muhammad said
Tuesday. "The state of Florida is
on th honor roll of racism."
Muhammad spo to 800 tu­
History
l)eI�Ie-, iJ'O-
In a speech Nov. 29 at Kean
College in Union, N.J., Muham­
mad said Jews are "the blood­
suckers of the Black nation, " the
pope is a "no-good cracker," and
Black South Africans hould
"kill everything hite that ain't
right."
Since that speech, political
leade from Vice President AI
Gore to Jesse Jackson have
called on Minister Louis Farrak­
han to denounce Muhammad
and his speech.
MUHAMMAD .DID not die
rectJy add that speech Tu
day but said it's wrong to call
him a racist.
"You can't eomp
Dvi ,
" obody ver too t ir tion.
obody ever robbed them com­
pletely of th knowledge of If
as my people have been robbed.
We are fighting back. "
�su experimenting'
on, Blacks, doctor says
By CRAIG HILL
The medicaid system is �
oomplete mess forcing patients
in the system to Wayne State
University Medical School
w here unnecessary operation
and experimentation-on Blacks
especially is taking place, ac­
cording to Dr. Ed ard T.
Tumer,Jr.
Turner is an Obstetrician Gy­
necologist at Northland Medical
Building in Southfield where
he's been for the last five years
but has practiced in various De­
troit hospitals for 30 years. He
graduated from Wayne State
University Medical School in
1955.
"T medicaid system is a
oomplete mess because it has
gotten down to point where it's
paying nothing," Turner said.
"The system either rejects or
panda a claim but most times
they will pend the claim until
they reject it."
He said it takes a year to re­
ceive payments for a hysterec­
tomy and six months after the
deliveey ofa baby.
·THERE ARE ONE·
THIRD to one-half payments
received," Turner ·d.· I re­
ceived a payment statement
from medicaid that read zero at
the.top and the bottom. "
Turner said he had to stop
doing medicaid wor because it's
like slave labor which he isn't
getting pay for.
When medicaid first came out
it was highly functional, Turner
said. The idea behind medicaid
was to allow patients to select
th ir own doctor but in the last
eight years it has been in disar­
ray and in the last two years a
m , Turner exp ,
Wayne State University
Medical School tak the medi­
'caid patients and gets paid since
they have a lobbyist working to
be sure they get the money, says
Turner.
"For the same injection I
would give a medicaid patient
and get nothing, WSU Medical
School could do the same and
receive th ir p yment." Turner
said.
See BLACKS B8'
your mo t
important
Black
figure?
Nikki Moorer - ·Martin Luther
King inspired us to stand up for
our rights as human beings and
to unify as a people. He was for
all mankind.·
Leola Howard -I admired the
eloquence of Martin Luther
King. He also practiced what he'
preached."
Jackl H tt n - Anne
Spencer, the renown Black
poet of the early 1900's. She
never received the recognition
she deserved. She's my
unsung hero.