…and Fri I VOL. XVI NO :\:\ An Informed Pcoph- is A Frv«: People .JlILY 10 - 16. 19q4 , P rception about race nd crime - particularly involving Afric n American male - trongly color th national crim d teo Though only five percent of a11st t crime now falls under f ral jurisdiction, Democrats nd Republican have r di covered th political potency of the crime' ue; and both politi cal parti are determined to "Get tough" on crime in ...…
…- - - - ------- ------------------------------------------- ..... -----__. ___ Mental health treatment often hard to come by P.'�(' i\:\ VOL. XVI NO. 21 An Informed People Is A Flee People APRIL 10 - 16. 1994 • conolDlc , l outh r By DONNA BRYSON A •• ocl.ted Pre •• Writer South Africa, white hands will still count the mon y. The euphoria gr eting the first all-race election April 26-28 cannot mask the sobering eco nomic le...…
…IAN G-AIDS· 00 d I ding ca among young Blac men in Michigan, according 0 the re cently released 1993 State of Black Michigan report. Black men aged 25-44 were dying from AIDS at a rate of 48.3 per 100,00 in 1990, making the disease th second 1 . ng cause of d th next to homicide. �e figure as up from 20.7 h r 100,000 in 1988, henAIDS Bla om n accounted for Michl n' population in 1990 rate of AIDS among ran ed the fi fth leading ...…
…, By TUREKA TURK lanta, Baton Rouge, �troi rAkron, and other cld plan to a lchlq action uit gai t the .s. govern- Amidst empty, temporary New ment, ccordlng to Je . Year's resolutions promising better Also at the January 2nd meeting jo , financial tability, and healthier N'COBRA planned to spread repe.ra li(i lY. ,the reparations movement tions ware throughout the nation resolved, in a January 2nd meeting in with a march on W hington,...…
…: LOS ANGELES (AP) - The rival . load and Crip gan y they have [oined fo , but for t e ct purpo e they won't y. A flier ddre ed to g ng members i ciJculating on the tree with the ge "Open season on LAPD." • The Police Department, while, . d it i inve tigating s repo th t gang members a leading role in I t week' o . In an unusual gathering of the au:henemy treet g on Tuesday, lp and Blood leaders aid the riots • w t inner-city BI ...…
…dl m I tr C record for I c o p r icipa Ion By TERRY KELLY D orr - Hope of Black contractors for their h re of the propo ed VA ho pit I construction project dropping as f t the thermome ter out ide. And faced with the di mal trac record of the apparent low bidder, Bate on-Dailey, the goal of 20% Black participation on the $230,000 million project seems as unlikely as the reappearance of summer's warmth . Virgil Cobb, president of...…
…ome ay that it I . the most concentrated location for craclc cocaine le in e on County. But the resident of t Par anor, nown a 'Brie City', de cribe it a a nellbbor oocS tbat ent from being a relatively nice place to live, &0 a crime-infested baven for crack cocaine dealen nd en In j t 0 year.. . Tbe 200-u it public ho in project in the northeast drant of MUlke on ei bts il predominately Black. It I al 0 dra n a lot of attention from p...…
…VOL XIII NO 12 February 10-16.1991 I c I d r qu on m h m , Bu h) th t this war mu t be won, but we now this conflict will not la t forever nd w.e need to ddre he pre ing i � ues on the home front ... " "African American h ve 1- w ys shared with our fellow citizens a tot I commitment to the protection nd defense of this nation . . . in our illing ness ... even our e gerness to take up arms whenever the need has arisen .....…
…color of ju ice o her as ail double I andard in son' dea' h Blac la makers plit o chool und,ing , y CgpiIIIl Nnn Svvice By D rrick . Le Correspondent A gun hot in dead-end lIey on M morial Day weekend, end d the life of eventeen y ar-old Regin Id Elli . Th su . P ct. John M. 46, a white m n from SI. Clair Shore, i till at-large Iter a w rrant a i ued for his ar- LANSING - With the ever gro iDg Dumber of school finance pr...…
