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VOL. XVI NO. 26 An Informed People is A Free People MAY 22 . 28. 1994
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By JERYL BARGINEAR
IIlchlll.n Citizen
CALLTOO DE
Funeral servi were held
Saturday, May 14, 1994 at Fel-
10 hip Chapel Church, 19555
W, McNichols Road, for an ava­
ricious alien, usurping tier, a
blasphemous b t, called -
Apartheid South Africa.
Many dignitarie were on
hand to r witn to the un­
precedented eulogy that marked
the end of an opp ive era of
white-minority rule. Among
them were The Honorable Craig
Strong, Recorders Court Judge;
Jeanne Mirer, Esq., National
Lawyers Guild; and Con
man John Conyers, among
many others.
Murdock Funeral Home pro­
vided burial services as the last
rites were conducted by the Rev.
Wendell Anthony, pastor, presi­
dent of the NAACP Detroit
Branch, who called the ervice to
order.
·W p to
join us on this day, to partake in
this historic transition of evil
into goodn and tyranny to un­
derstanding, We've gathered
here for two reasons. One, to
bury Apartheid, that it may
never again rai its nefarious
head, and to celebrate thejoyous
oocasion of the beginning of a
Executive Director Jo nn
Watson acknowledge South
Afric n upporters.
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flgh ing pill in 0 s reets
BY JAMES ANDERSON
ASSOCIA TED PRESS WRrrER
C, C IIf. - A feud
pitting Hi p nics again t
Black at Lo Angeles
ounty' lar t pri on
pilled into courtho hold-
ing nks and onto the t
Segregating prisoners may
the only way to top it, offi-
cials y. .
With broom tic ,home­
mad kniv and anything
el at hand, Black and His­
panic inma th h it out
with numbing regul rity t
th PrJ. Pitch Honor
R ncho here - home to
10,000 prison rs. Since Janu­
ary 1993, more than 300 in-
mat nd a doz n guard
hay n injured.
A melee in 20 pri n dormi­
torie in January forced
guards to grega veral
hund i � for 1
Dr. Kwame K ny tta pour libation during aparth Id fun ral ervlce •.
new nation inside South Afri ,
the minister said.
poured.
"We pour libations to the
Honorable Marcus Garvey who
said 'Africa for the Africans' and
'Up you mighty race and accom­
plish what you will,' and to him
we pour libations. He poured.
"We call upon the spirit of
Steven Biko, who did not relin­
quish his humanity even when
imprison d and t to d th by
th South Afri n D ath qur d
and we pour l iba ions. H
poured.
"We con.secrat the f ther of a
new nation, I on Mand la.
But there i no 'f ther without a
mo h r, 0 wei brate the
LIBATI0
In an unorthodox atmosphere
radiant with African attire the
mood was anything but solemn.
Dr. Kw me Kenyatta, Chair of
the New African People's Or­
ganization, offer d sacrifices,
the pouring of libations, a cus­
tom commemorating the elders,
ancestors and martyrs who laid
down their liv in the truggle
for liberation so that others may
be free.
"Usually, when pouring liba-
tions at a funeral," id Ken-
yatta, "it is. a ad ion, for
one of our friends or relatives
has passed way But we rejoi
today becaus thi (Apartheid)
is not a friend of ours, nor a
relative. Bu rath r, it has bur­
ied many of our moth rs, fa­
thers, isters and brothe and
to them w pour liba ions. He
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the fighting are numero
as the bra 1 them lv .
M t often mentioned is a re­
puted mov by the Mexican
Mafia, the powerful Califor­
nia prison gang, to t con­
trolofth South rn California
drug trade from Black gangs
i id and outside the pri -
ons.
Th Erne (eh-meh), the
mafia i known, has ord red
Hispanic inma to intimi­
date Black prisone - par­
ticularly members of Cripe
gang9 - according to prison
gang experts who po on
condition of anonymity,
On th t me told
, panic gan t ' r to
dri -by s i , os­
tensibly to end layin of in­
n nt bystand rs. Violators
would face reprise , includ­
ing d ath, the gangs were
ld.
The order helped reduce
gang layings in � Angel
COunty from 80�in 1992 to
just over 700 in 1993, accord-
See LIGHT, B8
REST.DS
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BY lEW FERGUSON
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y Port r m y b
uck to th City
po
to c 1
April 23, 1994 to New B the I
Mi ionsary Bapti Church
to wha was to have n a
upport r lly for Kilindi Iyi's
wrongful incarcera ion, that
urn into I br tion for
hi fr om
Th order of rvice gan
with th ro ring of dru and
sweet whispers of th flu: .
Wi h th unexpected surpri
of Kilindi' freedom and pres­
t he rally, th crowd
w up-hfted in h ir spiri
and 1 i f h t through
praye nd unity, God had
IT on of h ir unsun h-
Aha t i,
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RALLY.BS
By JACaUEl YN R. MART1N
Michigan Citizen
"If you f: int in th day of
adversity, then your tren h
IS spoiled" was well s ted by
one of the 26 ke who
came out on aturday nigh,
KlliNDllYI
id Jackson, who i na­
tional field director of his fa­
h r' Rainbow Coalition The
son, who has degrees in theology
and law, Ii in Washington,
D.
See AFRICA. 86
V1 w on a comm nt mad by
Porter during a de ate about th
f: cih y on Thursday May 5. Por-
r. id hat if state and fed ral
nvironmental regulators ap­
prove th project, th city clerk
would th n have th power to
.. give" the lice
Franklin warned that Porter
migh working with the law
d p rtm n to e the city
council out of th deci ion mak-
tti Ca r id
would only be re­
p th pplieation
It would be the
ouncil, he
ke th final
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