men.
A report on potential solutio
COMBAT. A8
WSU Nursing College honors Detroit students
Five students and an in tructot from Crockett Career Technical Center in Detroit were
recognized recently by Wayne State University's College of Nursing. They received
certificates marking completion of an eight-week program during which they a Isted
faculty members conducting various research projects. Participant (left to right) are
LaKisha Sear, Meng Yang, instructor Camilla May, Michelle Gordon and Danielle Massen­
berg. Funded by the National Center for Research Resou'rce , a unit of the National
Institutes of Health, the summer program encourages careers in health care and science
fields.
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VOL XVI NO. 1� :\u Int.,. IIII'd I', "ld, h:\ I 11'(' PC'ople SEPTEMBER 11 - 17. 1994
- Th national un mployment rate
for Black men i 11.7 percen com­
pared with 4.7 percent for hite men
-Bla m up 12 percent of the
total population but 46 perc nt of
prison inma
THE TITUTE, housed in the
College of Human Medicine, i named
for th on of a sla who wro e the
mill nt antisl very ay, "An Appeal
to the Coloured Citizens oithe World,"
in 1829.
be ho fought for th center.
T unive ity gave it a 150,000
grant for th 001 y ivate com-
p ni Iso contributed.
HE TITUTE supplied th e
tatistics a proof that solutions re
urgently n ed:
- The life expectancy for Bla
mal in the United States is 65 y
compared with 68 years for whit
mal . - More than one in three Bla
male babi die before their first birth­
day, compared with less than one in 10
A HVILL I T n·n. (AP) -
Som 10,000 people attending
the National Baptist Conven­
tion this w k won't just praise
God, they'll be talking about
health reform and youth vio­
lence.
A local organizer said Black
ch urch see the e is ues in-
p rable.
"We Ii ve you' can't sepa-
rate politics and religion and
deal with the Black experience,"
th Rev. Jam Thomas, pastor
of Jefferson Street Baptist
Church and a tate leader in the
denomination, id last week.
"1 don't th difference be-
tw n th m. In fact a president
in our convention gets in trouble
if he d n't add all th
things. "
The 2.5 million-member Na­
tion 1 Baptn t Convention of
America is on of the largest
Black denominations in the n -
tion. Bu it houldn'tbeconfused
with the National Baptist Con­
v ntion USA, which has its Bap­
ti World Center headquarters
here on the Cumberland River.
Thomas aid convention dele-
gates are likely to debate and
pass resolutions regarding na­
tional health care, the direction
of the NAACP and discuss ways
to combat neighborhood and
youth violence.
The meetings Monday
through Friday are the National
Baptists' 114th annual m­
bly and the first time it has met
to
•
ANNISTO I Ala. (AP) - Annis­
ton ministers cite Deanna Baker
as an example of why they are
leading a week-old boycott of 21
area busin .
M�. Baker, who is Black,
graduated from Jack onville
State University with a busi­
n -merchandising degree last
year and we confident she'd be
able to find a good job in Annis­
t n.
Befor duatin t h at-
tended a jo fair at t e colle
w here an Anniston department
store was looking for buyers. She
filled out an application, waited
a week, called ba and began
leaving a string ofmessa
She called and called. and
called, but the personnel direc­
tor never responded to h r mes­
sa
A month or so later, Ms.
Baker found out that a couple of
her white friends from school
were hired by the department
store.
AS FAR AS Ms. Baker, 23,
could tell, the only difference be­
tween her and her friends was
color.
From June to November, she
worked odd jobs and bided her
time in unemployment lines.
"At the time, I was really bit­
ter," she said "I almost lost my
mind. I thought: 'What's wrong?
Why can't I get a job?'"
in Nashville in two decad .
Convention president Rev. E.
Edward Jon of Shreveport,
La., head of the denomination
since 1985, will preside.
o
•
WALTER BERRY
who me Thursday with Police
Chief Dennis Garre t, accused
police of harassing Mallett. be­
cause he drove a "fancy car and
thought he mu t be a drug
dealer."
Mallett drove a gold 1991
Thund rbird, which h bought
after a tlement wi h a h lth
care agency that failed to diag­
nose th pinal m ningiti that
cost him hi legs.
"We upport Chief Garrett,
but he to do something bout
hi office . W k P rn ting
ith him and a k him 0 do
something bou t h non
A .. oel.ted Pr ... Writ.,
PHO (AP) - Th FBI is
investigating th death of a dou­
ble amputee who had fatal
h art attack while police tried to
subdue him .with pep r pray
and a neck hold.
Edward Lee Mall t , a 25-
year-old anti-gang crusader who
had pro thetic legs attached be­
neath both 1m , died Saturday
night fter scuffling with police
outside a convenien tore.
Community activist Carolyn
Lowery, mong50 BI ck I de
Then one day, she decided to
move to Atlanta.
Now, she's an account special­
ist at Equifax. It took her I
. than a wee to find that job,
where she is earing high com­
missions.
The Anniston boycott' first
week appeared to have had a
mod t impact, but the Rev.
John N ttl of Anniaton, s
pWalQ&antoft utlwrn Cllr!.
ti n L ad r hip Conf rene
aid it will gro
INETY- percent of
th folk in the BI ck community
are going to support it because
they've been asking us hen
we're going to do something," he
aid.
During he last w k, some
business leaders have called
ettles t( talk. Hoyt C. "Chip"
Howell Jr., president of the Cal­
houn County Chamber of Com­
merce, said some targeted
businesses have also asked the
chamber to help mediate the dis-
pute. .
Nettles said ministers came
up with the list of21 businesses
after 100 ing at employment
practices and there are about 40
others that may be added to the
list.
Some businesses say they
don't und rstand how they made
the list.
Charles Dinsmore, owner of
He has n pastor at Shre -
port's Galil Bapti hurch for
36 y 1'5.
Th oonv ntion sch we in-
dud a pasto 'confe nee.
o
. but things haven't chang d
We're just fed up with it," h
aid.
into his car, poli u pper
spray, then pil on top of th
5-foot-10, 273-pound m nand
appli a n k hold
Officr
Mall t
_ nniston Lincoln-Mercury­
Dod , id h employs about 20
full-time workers, of which three
re Black.
"THEPROBLEMi wedon't
ha ve enough applicants, black or
white," he aid.
The only busin on the I'
that h been picketed is Gre-
1:ft"OI'1·�"V.to in do
Greg
o itlt Nett]
and have noted that t . r .
tant manager is BI
Oth r busin on the li
include: Cooper Chevrol , Hud­
son's Department Store,
Kitchin's, We tern Sizzlin,
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