…impo t d c%1iciaI to Black America. The delMied by Jesse Jacboo in a keynote addre ; by members of the CoDp' io 1 Black Caucus (CBC) at vario wor ops d other speakers cited .destructi\Ie eight wee:IeDd theme, struBle lDllbllues - A 1.00 lDto The Future,· 1U0UII� • tapestry ofl , Rights Commission rned their listeners that "r cial bat tleground still existed· in the so cial d eeoeomic environment ofAmeri They urged their lis...…
…housiDg sevices grant fund for needed housiDg projects in local communities; - Provide for a . ding scale of property tax aedits on state income tax based on income � ;and - Create a e community banking corporation and a loan reserve fund to provide vital banking services to 10 and moderate income communities. "The housing problem in Michigan is especially aOlte for "Tbe quality, vailability, and lower income individuals and aff...…
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…OPINION/ COMMENTARY/ LETTERS/ EDITORIALS I I on. come bo Givi 9 �Ia� today is often priced out of sight ABC wiD help these parCnts pay for the child care they want so that they are not forced to put their children • substandard care or Iea\le them home alone - rUing . children's health and safety. - A range of choices of types of child care. Parents rely on many diffemt forms of child care: family day care homes, and child cal...…
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….. 7 HLAND PARK FOCUS "Howe�r, . . ppeai now OIl a Jar scale." "And·' goodfeeliagtosee everyone together." ted Youog peop are directly in �1Yed in program. Youth· Henry Ford Scboo� DO cd, demon trated their of I pride in their community by . of· saturl1lMM ( ember 24) to deaD up area ar d tbeir school c and crim Residents in surrounding houses "looked at t the kids were doiDg. " she said aad felt a sense of pride tbemse ...…
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…HIGHLAND PARK - . Council President Linsey _ Porter is urging the city to revo e the license of Bell Cable Company, addiDg that the com pany owes the city one million dollars in penalty fees. . - Porter sl es that Ben Cable itself dmits failure to - P Y quarterly franchise fees. - File "vario "required � Ii ) reports. _ Install "standby powerfJ. cbeck way institutional lines, and F uninterrupted power in C08 .... ty' y beadend...…
…'II Call for u pensio I of' Buru di's aid Rep. William H. Gr y, III (D-PA), Chairman o� the Hou e Budget Committee, today called for suspensi of aid disbursements to Burundi, pending further clarificati n of the event urrounding the recent killings it! that oountry. In recent ee , Govern ment troo in Burundi have killed thousands of civilians in response to ealc of � unrest in two northern prOVID ees. H�r, to date, an exact ...…
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…BENTON HARBOR AREA NEWS AACP gain 600ne member' · h Radiothon The Twi Cities Branch NAACP went on the air last wee end as part of the national NAACP Radiothon and thanks to a great community outpour ing the effort was highly success ful, said Mattie Roddy, city resi dent and Fourth Vice-President of the Michigan State Con ferenee. ODie Hull, chair and h less during the three-hour broadcast OYer WHFB, and Rev. Delano Bowma...…
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…Hardeo�(i niche and graduated with a �:Dellor ofrmc Am J)qp'ee . d de a fuD- • ca • I U nrtlnftC of tho article taken fro the July 28, 1988 . ue of the Elkhart Truth. David Allen Gary of Elkhart, . 't let the fact that he . a candidate for raihu� stop . him &0 ucceeding He i a �n year old student at Rooseve .Scbool and has been accepted i 0 the Provid ing for Except· I Potential progam for gifted and talented students· Elk...…
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…17 BETTER LIVING c I . . The· attached to beiDg chemically dependent is the main obstacle faced by women . reaweriag fiom this poten tially f disease. All che . cal ly dependent people face the . 15 Tom Lucking. Ex- ecutive Director at Gateway Recovery Services, but women " who are q.emicaUy depe .dent e looked down on more than any other group. Desire the progress 've made in the last decade, as far public awareness and ed...…
…) SY OPSIS OF THE REGULAR EETING OF THE BENTO CHARTER TOWNSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES HELD ON ruES Y, SEPTEMBER 111, 1988, AT 7:34 P.M. Me bers Present: Super- � visor ielse�, Clerk Scott, Treasurer c:causland, Trus- tees LaDe, Jeffe It. CoIIiDs. embers Absent: . 11lemee' caUedto order 7:34 p.m. aDd a silent in vocation gWen. The mmutes of the.p-evious regular meeting re app'oved as presented. The' enda amended to add Items G. ...…
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…Larry Simmon is orman Winch ster banquet speaker Pa 6 , rea DyS Capital News Service lANSING - Black leader- hip in action is what the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus wants to see at the state Capitol. During the next few weeks the Caucus will develop an urban strategy. The report is expected to be ready in mid- ovember. "Urban communities need special attention," said Ursula Littl s, staff person at the Michigan Legisla...…
…2 Reinve t in m rica; Retrain our worker ; R indu trialize our na nd • R -conver ion of our . du trial plan for civilian u . Co InUN on P 1 7 …
…October 25-31, 1.987, oc onor DETROIT, MI - At its an nual a ards banquet held recently, Robert T. O'Connell, vice president and group ex ecutive/finance for the General Motors Corporation, received the Gold Key award from the Greater Oppor- tunities Industrialization Center of Metropolitan Detroit (GOIC). The GOIC is -an affiliate of the 23-year-old Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America -- a nationwide net wo...…
…- r 9 ra say �or educatio� not aggrevation, for dinner and food, not quaaludes . "So everytime you see a p her of the world selling dlugs to little boys and girls, Tell them to quit, thro diu in a pit. 'It's suicide, 'it's the bad joy ridelll 'so people th t diu are great. • Le1 me tell yo hould really hate. 'It' something sing up your minds. 'It's th turning turning 10 to crime. To this mi t no make II p hers need kids,...…
…October 25-31,1987, The Michig n Citizen 5 • I d • • oomow , u. ar By Iter J. Crider The Saturday, September 26, 1987, Home Real Estate Section of the Detroit Free Press had a rather interesting feature article entitled "The ext Boomtowns". The article concerned itself with the prediction by real es tate experts of where they for see the best housing values in the metropolitan area are. Housing prices in the cities na...…
…Ie obiliza- proved that ayne Oak! d Bank handle ccounts for Community Improvement Program Grants. Heath ac knowledged the committment m de by the b to remain in the city and its desire to locate in the proposed opping cen ter t Woodward and anchester. Council members voted u nanimously to name the ichig Citizen the offi- cial ne paper erving the city. Council lcomed publish r Chari elly and e - pre ed their concerns for th...…
…October 25·31,1987, Th Michigan CUtten 7 Community Affairs. She also does free lance videos for weddings, fashion sho and commercials. Her goal is to produce video . Dawn is the daughter of Charles and Mamie Yarbrough, Benton Harbor. Da n Yarbrough pursues video career Dawn Delynne Yarbrough, a 1979 gradu t'! of Benton Harbor, no living in Califor nia is making her dream come true. Dawn is now working at the Cedars-Sinai Medic...…
…1, Co format will: -Provide an opportunity for citize to hear the can- didat ' vie OD· and eir proposed ons; r -Provide an opportunity for didat to citize ' concerns and ho for their city. The candidat are invited to peak, e ch for 15 minut . e moder tor, Ted Vern - co, will th open the floor and invite citizen respo in the form of questio con- cerns, opes, ddressed to the didat . or more inform . on, call 926-4084. oduCIO...…
…ur er charge ow 0 of L· Wolf ha Ie i iri 9 a Carl BENTON HARBOR Commissioner Bill Walf has solidified" Alex Little's posi tion as city manager or else it will now cost the city "a mil lion dollars" to get rid of the manager, mayoral candidate James F. A. Turner charged during the Oct. 19 Chamber of Commerce sponsored debate between himeself and Wolf. By putting the firing of Lit tie up for a vote when Wolf knew he only h...…
…t o pi fl i 41 11. ( ' .. III II H: II t.uv. I .ct t l' r-. \ i t' \ \ ..., CIVIL RIGHTS less, by helping to stop' Reagan's evil polici ... that the totalled B y t at If you lie to your If, wh t e er problems you m y have becom un Ivable. In order to corr t problem, you mu fir identify it preci ly." omen can Ider range and odor than …
…ATLANTA - The most recent poll of Southern voters sho the Rev. Jesse J ackson leading his five Democratic party rivals in the race to take firs place in the so-called Super Tuesday Southern Primary. The March 8, 1988 primary is called Super Tuesday" be cause t least 16 Southern and border states will be conduct ing primaries on the same day. ·The poll conducted by the Atlanta Journal and Constitu tion found 27% of potential ...…
…. chigan' firs African J\nlerican le�ator vvas HA'1*ri4o:nn' elected in 1892. William Ferguson erved one term. ince then there hav been 50 Bl c legislator in Lansing. "Our members are usually very invol ed in different com mitt 0 only an ver ge of fi 0 • caucus memb rs o up t the monthly meet ,. Littles . d. p 0 frica IT ... .ctJ'll ... �on County ro P chairper Judi . fl r: CI r (D. Flint) rv d pr i- City Council CPo t...…
…Citizen OGE HE e can build Ben on Harbor lec ames F. A. MAYO rner VOT TUESDA OV.3 Elder A ury Rev. c. . Jones Rev. Perry urray Shaheid Shabazz • Rev. Emery Vanie Rev. Fletch cAfee Paid for by Ben10n Dem. Comm. …
…roit Rd., it , -683-5913 .4clude Kalamazoo and sur roundiDg communi· • Tmo�o m . ory ilie presidents ve fought the same four foes: unfair employ ment practices, discrimiilation in ed .on, biased ne COYer d police com- munity rela·ODS/h . ities, The presen leader, Dr. Yd man C. Cothran, completed the term of Rev. Asa 0 Ii and u uently elected to erve two year term in 1987. Since tha time, Dr. Cothran h continued monitoring ...…
…25-31, 1987 Mi D Otizeo Piccola Shelton She's 88 and going trong Piccola Shelton will celebrate her 89th birthday next January, the Three Rivers woman has wor ed for the past 70 years, and is still ork ing every day. She is employed at the Three Rivers branch of the Michigan Employment Security Commission, where she helps senior citizens find jobs. A native of Guthrie, Okla. Shelton maintains the first so cial security card ...…
…• • 7 01 lp redpl t r- parental input. Te chers will be surveyed regularly about students' attitudes and chievements. ulder said the number of students involved in the project i small enough to bbe manageable, yet large enough to provid uch st tistical analysis. We believ there is no b t t r way to break the cycle of pov 'J than providing quality tten- education too all children." r t and / oc I d ily p p r ry ond y for...…
…October lS-31, 1987. The Michigan Citizen 17 o of continued from p. 2 righ . That's ·�n ,"Ie upport indigenou lep,� �r hip in Cen tral America like the Con tadora proce and the Ari Plan. That' why we upport th frontlin ta in South ern Africa. And e mu 't mea- ure human rights by one yardatic . verywhere in the orld. The third Jac on Doctrine principle i upport for inter national economic justice. t' hy erejec o more carr...…
…Sporh Pagt.· II I ment, ho ever, came with dis c . on of sports sociologist Dr. Harry Ed ards. Ed ards, ho hired by b eball Commissioner Peter Ueberoth his special assis tan in charge of developing minoriti e candidates for po enti e ecutive positions in baseball's front offices I' m agement po itions on the field, come under inere ing criticism by Blac ctivis ey point to 1 c progr in hiring Black manager or front office ex...…
…The ch gan Citizen NJv. 10/18. 25. & 11/1 EET CHRISTIAN SI GLES - The Sen ib y! Local/Wortdwide by Pho or '1. And Love. Dating. an ngful Companion hip TODAY! F • Brochure/Samples. Fa Moe. write: OUTREACH. Box 9Q20-H34. Van uys CA. 91409 HELP WANTED EISY Work! Exc II nt Pay! Assembl products at hom •• For info. Call 504-641·8003 Ext. A·9534. i�. .:: : ";:� r" '.::;: "'::: ':1 Insp�ati� fO�' $i'.' �. 5 tn pir ing tatements from ...…
…2.5 million bu ine purs Highland Park , Job development partD hlp, Chrysler Motor Corp. nd launched Devco, a develop ent corpora- VoUX No. 47 Serving the StIlII!'s African American Community z October 18-24, 1987 ee • • po Ice o o • I P ge 3 / ByTedJo T J. Chronicles Congressman George W. Crockett, Jr., (D-Mich.), a prominent critic of, the Reagan Administration's policy on South Africa and Central America, has been ...…
…robe of MEMPHIS (NNPA) - u.s. Attorney General Edwin eese d the Dept. of Jus tice have been asked to inves tigate· . • reports of the "brutal police slaying· of a emphis, Tenn. housing project resident fo11Qwing a pUblic meJcc between officers and the victim. emphis NAACP President Maxine Smith and Black leaders sent telegrams to Washington officia1s after mayoral candidate Teddy Withers called for an im mediate probe into ...…
…Opinion. Cununvnt a rv. lvttvr-. \ il'\\� r o poin to of Afri d oth s e liter ture by d ethnic to all of our disple ure. We ould also encourage our children to tch I TV and to read hen children do tch, ould le en- ure the viewing of positi programs uch e Bill by Sho . en r ciaI and ethnic communiti are not portr yed in co is ently neg ti manner, e're often ignored alt ether. Consider ogu from ent tore - 28 pag of f hio ...…
…October 18-24. 1987. The Michigan Citizen 5 2.5 million launches Devco and Highland Par developmen By rth E. di on HIGHLAND PK - Chrys ler Corp. officials met Oct. 8 ith Highland Park Mayor Robert Blac ell and other city officials to incorporate the Highland Par Devco Corp. ichael . Glusac, Chrys- ler's director, government af fairs, said, "The Highland Par Devco Corporation was created and funded toensure the economic well ...…
…SURGED GE ERAL'S AR I G: Quining Smoking o Greatly Reduces Serious Ris s to Your Health. …
…October 18-24, 1987, The Michigan Citizen Highland Pk youth to receive By Rose Enlo The Highland Park Men's Forum presents the first an niversary Banquet for the Nor man Winchester Awards on ovember 7, at the Temple of I AM located on Hamilton at Monterey. The Men's Forum is dedi cated to improving the quality of life in Highland Park, ac cording to Forum Chairperson Earl Wheeler. Wheeler says the Winchester Awards Banquet ...…
…ichmond, Virginia; Delt Hortens Golden Canady, of in ichigan; Sigma, ej t V. Perry, of t. Louis d Zeta, Eunice . Thomas, of hington, D.C. to en cour ge Bl c omen to run for st te, local and county political office. At present, according to e Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington, D.C., 23' percent of the 6,681 Black elected officials nationwide panel . SYStem. Exc u 't trap ater . h,chrome, CHECK OUT CRAFTSMAN YA...…
…are women. Some 2,000 women, non Greek, are expected to attend the conference and funds from the Field Fondation, of ew York, will provide scholarships for 50 grassroots participants. The foundation's grant will also be used for the develop ment and implementation of four state forums, to be held by the sororities, in the ensu ing months. October 18-24, 1987, The Mi igan Citizen 1 ROBERT BELL CO TRACTOR B b - n art tre t ...…
…o 3 68 ,1 iIIlam E. Iller, II Counselor Attorney At Law 2111 00 rd A ulte troll, I 01 313/867 -7245 313/963-5981 -. …
