…VOL XIII NO. 33 Jul 7 - 13 1991 'Lewd' rap lyrics sp cia) i cide t By ALUSO 'JO Correspondent MUSKEGON-The ruling of ju tifiable homicide in the shooting death of Louis Green by man who had time to end hom for his gun raises more questions than it answers. Mu kegon County Lou Green Prosecutor Tony Tague ruled July 2 that Robert Collins Sr. shot Green in "self-defense". According to the Prosecutor, on the night of June 18, sho...…
…Appro imatety hat percenta e of Jamaican / consi t elves B k? I . JULY 8. 1914 - lUy in er, w born. 190 - Loul Jord n, axophoni t/orch tra le d r, w born. Which famous American artist was the onofanAMEChurch bishop? JULY 9,1 H eWUU first ucce operation. Frederic: orrow, w appoi nted to Pre ident Ei enhower' taff. 1947 - OJ. Impson, football player, was born. Did Blacks ever pastor and preach at white churches in colonia ...…
…u.s. District Judge , Robert F. CoUin • State cuts aid to college students LANSING - About 2.600 welfare clients now enrolled in college will lose their General Assistance payments starting July 1 because of budget cuts, Department of Social Services Director (Jerald Miller an nounced last week. Those students might con tinue to qualify for food stamps and medical coverage depending on their cir cumstances, Miller said. St...…
…F UIT( HH. \1 . me • ca VIEWS m n inpri onorun r m form of correctional upervi ion, and 66% of all femal pri on re Black women. Given th tattling statis tics, one must either conclud that there i something wrong with people of color, or there are condi tions and forces within U.S. ociety which are responsible for th dis proportion tre incarceration of people of color. RACI M, POVERTY and in adequate education are identifie...…
…JU Due VIRTUALLY ALL higher education institutions in the United States, both public and private, are chartered by the individual tates. The only institutions chartered by the federal government are the service academies; U.S. Military Academy (1802), U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1876); U.S. Mer chant Marine Academy (1936); and the U.S. Air force Academy (1964). The federal government also suppons institutions in the District of ...…
…Mattie Carter Candidates me or H.P. City races by CARLA UU StalrWri r o It's election time again for High land Park and the following people have filed and qualified as can didates for the Mayoral race; Titus Mcavy� Anna R Peeples, Linsey Porter, Martha G. Scott, Ethel Ter rell, Scotty Wainwright, and Rod ney Watts. In addition, candidates running for City Council are Deneene Benefield, Wanda L. Bostic, Katherine Clarkson,...…
…HIGHLAND PARK p 7 ht the ppro t. i. CONC R '� S:':':App�'x In tely SC)o people New Betbel Baptl t Church und y, June 30. (Photo by N. coCt) - ' JULY 18� 1991, • 7:3()�M H 0 0 S 1 E ROO ME' DOW N TOW N ' 'I N 0 I A NAP 0 LIS NEVER TO YOUNG-Eight-year-old Kelly Bufkin t kes in the gospel ounds and later clapped _and danced a the music moved him. (Photo by N. Scott) Raven Ware, a flve-year-old, was as the s ylng goes: It A pretty a...…
…7 DETROIT I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I . I SAM OFTEN SAYS that Iss c 1bomas should remember his roots becaUse hen he w going through hi trial and tribulations being a whimp! according to Sam, TV commentators id Magic Johnson sent him "a bag of balloons" and told him to remember where he came from. So I knew Pal ce Pi tons and Ponti c lions were t1ashe of Sam' danger zone. - "Wro�" . "When ...…
…7·1 • I ct. Career Beginnin IF "mid dle-of-tbe-road" high school juniors and nio who aren't at the top or bottom of their cl and re often overlooked. They attend and main in average , but their ic ldlls are a couple of level behind their peers. early all the particip. nts are .. poor and half come from Ingle pamet home . THE PROGRAM combines dult mentors, career and COllege preparation, and emphas on basic kills to raise gra...…
…nt rtainment ar i . wher African m ri have n opportunity for the leading edg no urpri econd comin American from th 1 on the at de j t uperbly cted film with Oscar rated performances by George T. Odom, Anne D. Sander and Lawrence GiI1i� but question "Straight Out 01 Brooklyn" not box' for both white and African ongwri r o h Y r Janet J c on nd Kenneth "B byface" Edmond were named Songwriters of the Y�ar at BMI' 39th nnu I Pop...…
…JU WESTERN MICHIGAN TE DE Joann Roberts cited numero complaints in defe e of her recommendation to di mi Warren. Although mo t of the complaint again t Warren centered on hi job performance during the 1 90-91 chool year, Roberts cited pa t activitie that he felt warranted attention al o. Among Robert • complaint against Warren were: ode o C o t e oad rrstmas parade Hard work and dedication gets a dream going By Jao McDowell ...…
…2 BENTON HARBOR /\REA Ino t nH t I ph n for public Th ci ty commi ion proved r Publi Telepho Compen greement with Michigan Bell Amerit h Company to in- t 11 fifteen public telepho on it throughout the ci ty. Some of th loc lion would be: Coif x d M in; Pipe tone and Jefferson; Pipe tone nd Empire; Pipe tone icy: n Bell In- than .00 Com pens tion one; $90.00- $239.00 - Compen lion 7 ; $240.00-$269.00 - Compe tion 8%; $270....…
…U 7· 1 Sa Ie t \ . \ nd I h' a I. h B rid'" Cabinet Clean Up IsCrucial The la t time you came - down with the fluoracold,did you drag your elf to the medicine cabinet in hopes of .. finding ome relief! Did you - w de through a sea of bottles trying to remember which medicine wa for which ymptom? Children are. not the onl y o who can be poisoned by what i lurking in a medicine cabinet. The National Safety . Council recommends...…
…1 RELIGION Jehova · the Ca pa e a fog d d DElROrr- All hutory is important alld the Michigan Citizelllul the hinory of an particularly importDltt. From time to time we will prae1Il Oft ow reli DIU pa e, 1M history 01 di/lert!ltt cJwre eltCOtITa e all cJwrchu to end au their clJMreh lti.rtory 0 it CtJII be iIIcluded ill: A LookAt MicJai'QII� ClaMreha. Jehovah ionary Sap . t Church, 1 1 J Camp lit w organized on April 15, lKS. The...…
…Jl!LY 7 • 1 1 ------------------------------------��------------------------��----------------------------------------------�--------------- , or .... mbllng produot •• t home. 7-d y 24·hr. rvlee. Info 504·848-1700. DEPT. p8232. m ASSISTANT METAL EL T TECHNICIAN - Full· m posI on. Full b.n.flt. Pack ge. ed - high aohooI . ploma or equivalent. with oour ework In ohern try and phyaIos. Inm lurgyor m eof a plus. RequIred - knowl...…
…ICHIGA CITIZE JU Y 7 • ,1 1 . lave Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester (New York) Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society to give an oration in Corinthian Hall on the Fourth of July, 1852. He agreed, but not on that date; on the day after Independence Day, staunchly antislavery Rochester crowded into the hall to hear what came to be know Frederick Douglass's Fifth of July speech- "Wh t to the Slave Is.the Fourth o/July?" . Douglass...…
…-. • • V('l \'11/ NO 20 ApII17-13 1991 - �O c c nt s • • . . r He onl Iv to a they f1uen e d y r e. Conyer dd that Bu hs pack ge involve plan for "more pri on , more puni h ment, and more pro ecutor ", which would "do little to top crime in the treet." C o-n- r man John Conyer, n Afrie n Am ric n legi I tor repre ntin the fir t di trict includin both Detroit and Hi hland P r ,and enior member of the U.S. Hou Judici ry...…
…BRIEFS Th Struggl Contlnu The P nther ne sp per i bac . The P nther' recently publi h ed their first edition, con- ronting problems uch s dru unemployment. AIDS education, r cism f cing tbe Blac com munity. The purpo e of the Black Panther p per i to e t bli h an alternative to the mainstream pre and, _ along the way, enlighten younger generation of Black. Landon Williams, one of the editors, hope to "again start a dialo...…
…1 Name th popular " tride" piano player who became [amou after Willie "the Lion" Smith and lame P. John on. APRIL 9, 1 8 - Paul Robe 00, actor and inger, was born. 1934 - Dr. than H re, publi her, educator, was born. Did prole tant churches ever own slave ? APRIL 10, 1927 - Brum Ic Br ndon, Jr., cartoonist, wa born. 1947 - Brooklyn DOdger third baseman J ckle Robin on became the fir t African American to play Major League ...…
….. . , - , ' Wh t did America get? The recent Oil War in the Persian Gulf cost a billion dollars a d y. Think bout that as you prepare to file your taxes. Ask yourself, what did America get for that kind of investment? The Egyptians got their foreign debt forgiven. The Syrians got back into the good graces of America and can now be' talked to again. The Saudi's got their homeland protected nd their status in the regi n ngth d. Kuwa...…
…n ongwri r Wri f • In 00 y people, Bl d hite, stieased abhorance t the deeds alledgedly committed by Toni Ri and her brother. Howeverwe m t unders d the psychosocial environment that produced uch a mind in the BI ck community. Maybe Toni re oned th t if Anthony (her husband) could go to the WAR and risk his life for a country that despised his Bl ckness and use him to futher their NEW WORlD ORDER plans, Anthony could surel...…
…I • • ·CU I w LW LOV D other people' n il 100 0 I decided it wa time for m to le rn bout the pplic t i o n nd theory and everything th t went along b c ork w o ek ·c· y four-d .... by DCC. Staff Writer M yor M rth Scott n- CO ID the issue will .. nounced tit Mond v' city be discu sed at the next Town council me ting th t Highland Meeting April 4, at Highland " Par will go b ck to the four- P k Community College. · day wa...…
…1 y COtTespod nl The thre t S hool of Choice repre nt to public educ tion i more th n the y rom peci ic h red inform tion- of 11 hum n com- munitie . In te d, it i the ab ndoning of community re ource r ther th n inject in them with ub t nee nd vit lily. Al 0, it i the oci 1- ly-irre pon ible notion th t In I t we can o lve our problem by running from the . Northern ghettoe e the lot in life for m ny of u who am 'by ATHAN...…
…h uld h pro- HEALTH 00 by Dr. De n Or nd hi medical team that I -f t ve c:tarian di r, regular e xer i e nd tr. man gem nt c n oft n rever e even the o t e ve re oronary artery 6tockage . .: <{)T. Alexander Leaf, former c"" irman of the preventive med ici ne department at Har v rd Univer ity Medical Scho l, calls the research a Iandrna r tudy." - Orni h is a re earcher and t te n d i n g phy ician at the Univer ity of Ca...…
…IL 7· ,1 I Behind- The-Scenes the ter). 'In term 0 violence", V n Peeble id, "there' good peop Ie and b d people. With Godf ther III, you had thr peopl hot in' the th t r. one 0 the p ople involved in the e inci dent h d even een the movie yet. " But producer Dou c- Henry and George Jack on had me age for the rowdy youth cuing violence t their cr e e ni g. "St Y the h c away," McHenry id. "We're tired of thi film being the c...…
…o < rom the tur 1 ,it' b out" previou commi IOn meeting, City En ineer Rol nd ad r. Writ: ime to act in our elf-int re t Regarding an article writt n by Scott Ai n, 3-21-91 Herald Palladium, entitled, "Rec Chief See Kid On Street ,In Co rt". In reference to icle which foucu e 0 "Mr. Glenn Yarbrough' crim plagued, Ben ton Harbor neighborhood": when in fact our r sidents are plagued -by high un mployment, low elf esteem and ...…
…HELP WANTED Th tre: Th re g n r I t to dlr two produotlon. a year plu. upervl all t 0 produotlon. Qualified to teaoh Aotlng, Intr04uotlon to Th re, St r ft, (ld Co tumnlng; In ddltlon, one of the following: peeoh, Communloatlon., Chor I u.lo or danoe. A, F A, or BA with qulv ent prof .Ional exp.rlenoe requlr d. Beginning Augu.t 1, 1881. S.nd a letter of Int t, thr.e I.tt r. of reoomm.ndatlon, 0011 g tr n.orlpt. and I.Uer .tatlng ...…
…o C ARTIST-PHOTOGRAPHER OF TH �From the Front Pew y There i n old cliche' th probably found it or in in the fact th t when one now nothin about nythin, the.n one c nnot be held re po n- ,.ible for re ult or outcomes surrounding that p rticular subject. old often-he rd cliche', "ignorance i bli probably pplie to many ir um tance , However. one of hem hould not be the Black church. he "bury your head in the sand" ppro ch to i...…
