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s nator or
ntative in
nding of cur­
mocrats was
House GOP in­
di n pending
Black press'
oldest
publication
reaches 110
The Philadelphia Tribute is
the Bl c
Q es t ...w.1.lJ&.j�AA.4
publication. Publisher Ro rt
W. Bogle hAS announced that
the nation' oldest Black ne
paper will celebrat 1 10 years
of pub li hingon Friday, ovem­
ber 18, 1994.
•
a men
ed
r cially
oting
o
indi
Aristide's
premier
accepted
lleg s that
I) n I () \ ( • til b r 15, 1 0, J ar-
m rd d ro v \ hi picku p truck a
ominately Afri- cember.
n ighborhood,
u
Mo t of th undercl
re con n rated in non-rnedi
atura citi lik New York,
Los Angel or W hington, bu .
in pl ces lik Duluth, Minn.,
and Portl nd, M in .
Using th 1990 census and
Urban In titut d ta, U.S.
lew pinpointed the worst
white undercl areas. U.S
News report rs found opl
o
OU
in th W 11 St journal tha
22 per nt of th children born
to whit worn 11 in 1991 ere
born out of w I k, a rate close
to h 23.6 perc nt that pre­
v il among Bl c
In the con trove i 1 new book
Th B 11 Curve, urr y nd co­
author Richard Herrnstein ay
that mo t white women who
give birth out of w I have
below-a ra I ' .
Th y concluded that "th
women are poorly uipped for
entering the labor force a well
as hecoming mo h , and there
is no n to think their children
will be any better" h n tho e of
the chi ldr n of black unwed
moth 1'5.
,
On the outside, commercial
strip are Ii n� with bars, mall
grocery stores, w hops and
liquor outlets, but the neighbor­
hoods nonethel f I isol ted.
from th r t of the city, cut oft'
by railroad tracks, rivers, high­
w y or industrial a
Groups of men can ometime
b s n drinking on the street
comers or in the par , congre­
gating in the comer bar or loi­
tering on front stoops.
On th inside,youngmothers
sometime joined by their par­
ents, pursu liv of cigarett ,
•
y
I P
hi e nd Bla gh
hite lum nded to
violent and chao ic. Whil crime
is rampant in white undercl
neighborhoods, random vio­
lence and murders are infre­
quent and drive-by hootin
almost unheard of.
In 1993, Flint, Ml., had 48
homicide, but it was a rare
event when two white teens got
shot after th y wandered in a
Black part of town to buy crac
cocaine.
Crack use and iolence i
comparati ly rare among poor
hites, and that accounts in
Plea e see WHITE, AS
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Her t th sun-b ked hill-
top, probably the it of th
kingdom' stockade, the Pal­
mare Archaeological proj t is
to r sum excavation next
summer, I d by Pedro Paulo A.
Funari of the Univ r ity of
Carnpinas in Brazil nd harle
E, Or r J r ofIlhnoi St.ate U ni­
versity
M anwhil ,r earch in Por­
tugu and Dutch archives is
revealing how h struggles be­
tw nth. th rlands and Por­
tugal for con 1'01 of northeastern
Brazil in t h mid 17th- ntury
divert tt ntion from he in­
depend mt Black republic, ena­
bling it to grow to a formidable
size.
A 0 OUT H
visitor, in reality military
spi S, d crib a 1005 federa­
tion of 10 villag s r tching
from along 100 mil of forested
hills parall I to th rich ugar
cane 1 nds of Brazil's north ast
coast.
Three-hundred years after Palmares, a kingdom set up by runaway slaves in Brazil, was destroyed,
ceremonies mourned its destruction and celebrated its heritage. Musical groups performed on the
"Freedom Train- that carried people from the Atlantic to Uniao dos Palmares, for the Nov. 20
ceremonies.
By JAMES BROO�E
Reprtnted from The N w York Times
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The warrior-leader of a lost
kingdom was honored in a rit­
ual ceremony in Uniao dos Pal­
mares.
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HERO, AS