…VOL. XVI NO. 30 An Informed People is A Free People JUNE 19 - 25, 1994 Marty Katz for The New Yen 11m" A conference of prominent Blacks that was sponsored by the NAACP ended with vows of unity. Organizer, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, center, aid anoth r meting Is planned, Min. Louis F rrakhan of the Nation of Islam, left, and Rev. AI Sharpton. By ALLISON JONES With AP wire report! BALTIMO Black leaders met Monday to begin devising an ...…
…-, VOL. XVI NO.5 An Informed Peopto Is A Free People DECEMBER 19 - 25, 1993 In By CRAIG HILL Aflchl".n Citizen THE CAMPAIGN has in cluded a song produced by the NAACP's Detroit chapter, called "Com Back Home to th NAACP," which carri "an up beat Motown sound," Chavis said. The cl.vil • ta 0 gani ti also has improved computer sys tems and more personal contact with vera! of the 2,108 local NAACP chapters, he said. Michigan's...…
…munity,· Mayor Curt' Rich id Monday. Under th curfew,]a office can stop nyone on city street between 9 p.m. and dawn. -On Monday, attendance at Crystal Ri� only high school as down 40 percent and some bu in e in the city closed early. By nightfall though, the Citrus County Sheriff Office was nding home some officers because the community was quiet. M nwhile, the police chief reiterated his support for the of ficer who shot Jer...…
…,. ric n Am c n ,-- , t and ill t the lead." Acoording to Cobb, part of the problem 'th Conyer's 'lure t • VAJO, • P A.e D orr�umm be bot political �tuu. Detroit'. con commu nity, it'. a mId winter of d1IIppoo intmenL Foot-draggiDg politi e failed to tote the 8rc r co tuenb on ODe of choJcest , �cnt bui� ptojcc re- ce memory, tbc con say. Rising in the middlc of the Medi cal Center is S240 mlUion 11< am Admi ba on (VA) ...…
…NAACR responds : A panel of local rep ntadves trom civil rigb organizatio met last Sunday at the general m mber , hip meed 0 the Detroit B ncb NAACP in re po e to recent petroit serf, "Who Spea r Blae America?" : A10n ith local leaders, the orum included videotaped respon- • e from national he d of the " AAC , the Urban Leagu , the Southern Chri ti n Leadership Con ference (SCLC) and the Congre n Racial Equality (CORE), : "It ...…
…VOL XIV NO.13 FEBRUARY 19 - 25.1992 orr-One month go t Corinthian Baptist Church, th Chica 0, Dlinoi Living Light Outre ch nlstrie founder and director, everend Bob 'eeden, deli red powerful m ge to Detroit. To parap and conceptualize what Reverend Weeden d, the rebuilding of Detroit i not the job of the city, tate or federal governments. 1be job i a community job and the burden of fulfilling that need OTT' , t uarely on the houlde ...…
…VO XIV 0.9 JA UARY 19-25, 1 2 cony J ,INFORM ENGL By BEN CHMITT C ptIM H w. me. proble . . go in Michigan is to regi ter 100,000 new voters before Feb. 17, which i one month before the Democratic primary election. "WE' GO G TO hay a voter registration drive in Michigan," he said. "We're gonna have conference before the primary (election) on reinve tment in Michigan and reinvestment in America, reind trializatioh." Rep. Jo ep...…
…ts tr Ie, In the 1 1 Lo I P. a d Enlyn S It lr t mend eat Award by tbe ord H II orum t a tribute to ber, eld at ortbea ter U Inr Ity In Do ton, M , May S. Mn. Par wa onored for her lifetime of ervlee to tbe principle of free peee . She I joined he re by Elma Le I (I) artistic director of the National Center for tbe M sen of Afrlun-A eric b Artl ts and local children after t e award ceremoDY. (pboto: (c) DOD West). U ba . Le...…
…The ineo es of the nation's wealthiest citizen have in creased so much in recent years th t the riche t 2.S million Ameri will h ve nearly much after-tax income in 1990 as the 100 million Americans with the 10 est income, a report i ued recent., by the Center on Budget Policy Prio . . -d. S ed aDOther way, the gap between the very rich and other Americans become so great the top 0 e percent of the population this year will have...…
