…• VOL. XVI NO. 31 An Informed People is A Free People JUNE 26 - JULY 2, 1994 By JERYL BARGINEAR ItIk:hlp.n Citizen DETROIT - Who would've thought that the stock market would crash in the 80' , or that \ terrorists could attack American soil? That a world super-power could crumble, or that drugs would infest the U.S.? Th e phenomenons are what The Honorable Louis Farrakhan re- Min. Rasul Hakim Muhammad, head-mini ter of the Nation...…
…VOL. XVI NO.6 An tnt o: mod People Is A Free People DECEMBER 26 - JANUARY 1. 1994 moja (u nit y ) urges us to care for each other and to strive for and maintain strong fami lies, .comrnunities, and na tions. One reason that Black children and fami lies in America are facing so many crisis. is that we have lost the sense of unity that brought us through slavery, war, emancipa tion, reconstruction, and segregation. We must re...…
…OU8TO (AP) - Complaints of law officer publicly strip rching Blacks have led to a closed door m ing between the mayor, police chief and more than 60 minority leaders. "Something definitely needs to happen and happen in a hurry," aid the Rev. Jame Dixon of the North t Commu nity Baptist Church. "Our efforts are tremendously impeded when we are dealing with a police force ay hen they met. in troit. In 0 er to ak the indus- tri...…
…ByRO SEIGEL Mlohlpn Citizen RIGBLA D P -A company named Highland Park Horizon De velopment Corporation wants laoo in Highland Park called Area 1 South between Hamilton aoo John C. Lodge, W t Davidson aoo Glen- , dale to use for ino gambli if tbe tate legalizes it At i December 21 meeting, the Highland Park City Council set two hearing dates to consider the deal, tlx>ugh no information is available on tbe group requesting the lan...…
…Gloom for LA's small Black busi ness - PG ,�) � '.,. .... , .. . � high sbelvea stoc:ked bottl 0 beer s like Wild IrilhROIeaDd N Ttain. Gilbert Potter came to Detroit in 1967 100' for wort. He found it Po ,69. I'd DOW 100 for If you JO to plat today lookiDJ for a J y11 tbiDt you' ei aazy or . WNOA F. RXiLlYMHiii '.., ... oar opened cIly'l Go:tPeI Rama. lGoIpII • 92' drew choi1 and goapeI group from tpOIlIOfId by the aty d Hgh...…
…'JOL XIV NO 23 time 0 , the Circuit I. Tbrougbout Caner Dele. ADd tbou people � supported ' effo j tice, tbeIe been no real • until DOW. TTRlALITw establishedthatonly Frank Mafri�e, an attomey ith 0 Blac jurors had been called for jury Sommers, Sc:bwar1z, Sil�r a Scbwartz of duty and both ere excused by court. d He itt signed 'd, hi�h "re .. ------------------ - - - . Want better schools? FLODEAN • RI .."wwr.r DBTROlT - Teac...…
…VOL XIV NO. 14 FEBRUARY 26 - MARC H 3. 1992 I lh Food Store See HOMELESS, A-10 ud I i .. udes higan' udent givt!s of hom land NATHANI L OTT ... "WtIt!! The concluding profi� in the' African Conneaio« series. DBTRolT-Okezie Iroha is a Nigerian tudent at Wayne State Univenity (WSU). A senior in busi . ness management. he plans to study law. lroha is from the lbo Tribe. He said that a large percentage of, enslaved Africans who...…
…',/Ut "', tJ( ", •• I t. IlIII' 1 1·,' I) t " , , " ' " - P3gC 2 Liberian Tragedy Continues • byD D ClJpillll New Senice LANSING-The budget cut th t could hurt the rt com munity in Michlg n will hurt all of the community, but it ill hit minority rti t e pecially hard. Orant given to the art have been su pended at this ti me nd Gov. John Engler plan to elimin te those grant . The executive director of the Michigan Advocate f...…
…G RA 0 APIDS, Miell. - Ei' t bite police officers are uing the city and tbe police rtment for S7.5 million, lIeging a promotion policy implemented to settle a 1 la uil by mi orit, female officers a OUD reverse discrimination. Plaintiffs in the suit fi d thi e ek in 0.5. Di trict» Court j net ude even hite men nd one w bi ie bo contend they ere over looked for promotion to the ' rank of ergeant despite being near the top of an...…
…BuUalo - Most· ues that concern the average African American "leader" - integra tion, desegregation, affumative action, government ponsored progr , assimilation, accep- Brock, of the Los ADaeles DeterminatiOD Com- ee aU tb thiDp distractions from the real of for Americans for 300 r come a game of politics. I don't see the legislature coming up with anything effective, • Hood . d. e ought to p some _ coosideratioo to . it to...…
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…Hom /e m na, citv open up - , vacant proiect« 8yRoseEnl DETROIT Members of the Wayne County Union of the Hom luss (NHU) and ap proximately 30 of its hoomeless attended a meeting of the City Council on Monday February 20. HU President Wayne Pip pin requested that the Council make vacant, repairab public housing vailab1e to the Union to be made habitable. At a prior meeting with the council, its President Erma Hender on prom...…
…, . • I ' I L �gisla tore deny local control of rent law Tenant groups sit in Governor's office iljl .tor people's voice at push ith 0 e voice in requ t that the governor veto the bill Introduced last falJ by Senator Richard Fessler (R West Bloomfield), S.B. 583 prohibit local governmen from imposing rent contro 0 landlords. Segmen of the bill. claim that rent control r . the cost of rental housing and the number of tenta...…
…...,...._.__ African-Americans ....... and the Constitu io an interview wi h Justice Dennis Arc Ro a Par s of Baseball - Curt Flood P 14 Serving the SlI*'s African American Community Ca • ? • a 9. n e a est folio ing De roit Council no vo e Deve 0 er on Atlantic City, ew Jersey, have portrayed the opposite. A Bill oyer's special aired last year revealed higher property values due to land grabbing by speculators have l...…
…Get ready-jobs opening in corrections P, Page 7 Z STATE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY" "SER VING THE VOL. IX NO. 22 ighla d se the building at 13745-53 Woodward which houses their buiness. • Councilmen Comer Heath, III, and Frank Ross, Sr., disagreed with Scott that their positions were based on sex. The city recommended that the owner of Dicksons Grand Bible & Bookstore, 13743 Wood ard, be allow ed to pay 50 percent ( 7...…
…Before Columbus? D ing October myth -Pg 11 SERVING THE Z STATE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY OCT. 26 - NOV. 1, 1986 a By Rhoda inn y 'P at' nal ews Correspondent SHI GTO ,DC - Bl c and hite Ameri an are bridg in the ap on primary i ue confr nting the nation with both group citipg unemploy !Dent, the high co . of living and th dru their thr m 0- president The m a- DIVIDED hen it on ive on a nonbindin initi tive hich ...…
…- The a r- e child support payment to B c and bite mothers de clined . gnificantly in real terms from 1978 to 1983, ccordlng to report from the Commerce Department' Census Bureau. a e reeei d by omen in 1983 26 percent 10 the amo t reported in 1978 after dj ting for In-. f n $1,470 en 1,980. yments to bite men declined by 13 percent, from 2,840 to 2,480. ccordin to an April 1984 y, the avera child up- port p yment to B omen ...…
…Got the Christmas Blues? . ,: y / w appeal filed for Maurie Carter ROSS, For one inm te of the ichigan pri n y tern, Chri tma came early thi year. urice Carter ju t hope that the appeal fil d on his half la t month ith the i h igan Court of Appeal do sn't fall th w y of many Christm s gift - 10 t shortly after th h liday . Carter' troubl began on another Chri tma - Christma of 1973. A Benton Harbor police offi cer, Thoma...…
…25e ',. CITY TRACK RECORD: LESS THAN 1% TO MI , , The 2.2 million was to be loaned to the hotel developers. As the developers paid back the . money . to the city,. the city would in turn hand it over to a minority group called the Mus kegon Urgan Development Ad visory Group (MUDAG). According to the uit, MUDAG was to use the fund "for various needed and price le local community projects with emphasi on the elimina tion of e...…
…CIV BULK RATE u.s. IGHTS PLA S CQ CES ILES AACP POSTAGE PAID B nton H rbor. I 49022 • HOUS G QUET P mit 0.50 r12 • lEADE TO PAGE 3 T TO PAGE 3 ADDRESS CORRECTIO REQUESTED VOL. V NO.47 OCTOBER 2 OVEMBER 1, 1913 Sen te, in announcing 10:30 to 11 am. with . Vi Ide Ste- rt, Fi al �y Senate Fi 1 ency· and Dr. Har y D y, Deputy Bur ru Chief, Dep rtment of Public Health Bure u of Health Care dmin- .m. ith Sen tor Harry G S...…
…VOL. V O. a J .2 - FEB. 1 r 19 3 the lit ould have follo ed racial line . F" ce Die or Ricardo John n told Commissioners th of tax required to cover fund that h been a.t, but not budgeted. After the m ting he detailed 437, 505 orth of expenditur not included in the 82..83 budget including: Com munity Development -department pay roU forced on the city by the freezing of HUD fund , judgement , retr ctive p yroll, emergency repairs...…
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…TO PAGE 4 DIFFERS SHARPLY FRO TaT)' eHy The 1983 propo budget given to Benton Harbor city commissioners on day night differ sharply from the Coop er Lybrand study purchased t year by th city for 60,000. Where Coope &: Lybrand projected a deficit for 1983 of some $300,000 ith a promise of "major budgeting problems will develop," the budget prepared by Finance Department Supervisor and act city anager Gerald Heppler pro . fOT 93...…
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…O. 51 OVE BER 2&- OECE BER 2, 1 0 TYSOUT ICHIGA yor ed not been in- 11 a.m. ond y night meet in told re did not d ofT ers. Bill Lilly, Community De lopment oordi tor for the city re rted to ppearance of c nflict. All can atte t th t I did no ppr ch anyone in . idu- ayor's al to coerce th m. OFFICIALS ADOPT ding to City anager P ul <:Cauley. Comnussion …
…TU TOPG6 VOL. II O. 16 ARCH 26· APRIL 1, 1980 SERVING TRI-COUNTV SOUTHWESTERN ICHIGA lOC Will m e opening remar s folIo ed by David Turner o the Economic Develop ment Office, ichigan Dep rtment of Commerce ho�will pe on "Down- town De elopment echan- sultant for the ichigan Tr vel Bureau will h ve 'Tour' m a Downtown Developm nt Tool' for his topic. George Dunn, execu tive director of th Cereal City Development Corpor - t...…
…VOL." NO.3 ter mon of ch the Board of DireCtc. of Berrien Ole cted the Gr ry B�, 72 aiD, Benton Harbor, the permanent tte for the trainin center's program. In a special meeting, Dec. 21, 7:30 a.m. at See y eCord 001 the 'te committee of the Board lected the propoul of JAD Development Corporatioo for the down town Benton Harbor ite. lADE' principal mem ber -, John A. Di ey, who �ch �bWWlingfrom e city of Benton Harbor comm...…
…, VOL 1 NO. 42 SEPT. 26 - OCTOBER I, 1979 SERVt G TRI-COU TV SOUTH ESTER MICHIGAN ency to do TOPAG 10 Pr A report . ued by the Benton Harbor Community Development Department tates th United Community Development Corpo tion . in violation on six poin of i contract . th the city fo dministration of Com munity De lopment funds. ccordin to Roscoe Da . , who autho ed the report, the UCDC . guilty of these con-. tract violations: ...…
…VOL: 1 O. 29 JUNE 26 - JULY 2, 1979 SERVI G TRI-COU TV SOUTH STER ICHtGA "Yet, minoriti h ve five ye r-old developm nt provided the majority of company but the fum of th jobs with their ] 8 per Butzb ugh and G r 1 ha cent of the funds n he dd- announced after three ed. mon ths th t the I Carr related that Ie inauditable, Henry than 20 job ere created Th DC offici and 15 of tho were du reported that cancelled to minority firms ho ob-...…
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