…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...…
…FAIR Study: - I ightlinel racist, conservative . The media watch grou p, FAIR, issued the results of its study: "Are You on the Nightline Guest List? - An Analysis Of 40 Months Of Nightline Programming." The 45- page report con cludes that one's lilcelihood of appearing on ightline's guest list is enhanced by being a white, make member ot the govern - - ment, military or corporate es tablishment. The study found that certain ...…
…gency food stamps and clothing. Peters said, the organization representatives tried to help. �CK-�ne ly -We're poor, but we are formed Hamtramc Welfare human beings," she said. "We Rights Or anization (WRO) have rights too." reportedly got the Hamtramck Pete�s charged that: social service office to respond -. - Clients were told to co� to client problems' after � t 7 a.m. and �t had to Sit threatening to stay the entire 10 the <?ffice...…
…·• PAGS7 \ Blanchard bud et Cuts to fuel prison growth including state hospital closings, an agency official said. Blanchard's budget, which will be released on Feb, 9, will put, more money into correc tions at the cost of almost every other department, the governor and aides already have cknow ledged. Thomas De Loach, director of the office of public informa boo, . d that the Department of Mlnapmcot and B · t e in the en...…
…I R1eCo'vering La addicts help �.,. ue r each other Pictures on 3,·5 Turn to 2 ,. ,! I . II �25¢. G Z e ByGi Pocock Capital News Service LANSING - If the Pontiac Silverdome were filled up 388 times with garbage it would equal about the Same amount of solid waste Michigan generates each year. Unfortunately, no huge Sil verdome trash cans exist to con tain 12 million tons of waste - 80 percent of . ch is dispose...…
…Referee for .Iandlord - tenan dispu es ace c A. CapitlJl News Service lANSING - In the wake of a 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Michigan's plentiful job less residents y face another blo . A proposal that would revise unemployment insurance benefits would mean leaner budgets over the next two years fo the state's jobless. The bills being considered by . both the Senate and the House I ould rein titute a olle-week , Bu lne...…
…out , old pace 171 Will 'rep bel I lost? ByRo Michigan may lose two u.s. congre men, Ken M c Gregor, Director of the Public Aff irs Office for the Democratic majority, in the Michigan House of Representa tives indicated. The I will be a resuft of population I and the great drop in populati ' occured in the diwictI represented by Blacks. ' , The number of con gressmen each e reee 'is based 0 its populatio det�r- 1 mi...…
…MlCIUeI T. BmDett CIIpitIIl News Service LANSING - MOlt employ able adults on elfare in Michigan are UDemp � be cause they can't afford to work, .said Michigan League for Human Senices . A Ho of Rcpreae_._ .... _ .. bill . tryiag to make it af- fordable by targeting health care, tr portati· and cbild care costs. Because mo t JDinimum jot. do n offer . ' uraece, m lfare recipients y 00' lfare rather than be- come emp eyed and...…
…Concern over CC nursing program: 00 fe Blac s Of 181 graduates, 2 are Black Page 5 Z STATE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY" "SERVING THE ac SO Japa acco o B'ac 'Heads nation's :Iargest mi owned trucking firm ority MI - Gary L. ten year veteran ord otor Com- pany' in rity upplier De- velopment Pr gram has begun hi ne role a Ch irman and hief Executive Officer of Trans Jone In. onroe he d qu rtered true line holding com pa...…
…'The 19 7 'State of the State" me e given by Gover nor Blanchard den t re flect the "State of BI c 5' in ichigan. Although we an cite i lated improvement for the Blac community durin the Blanchard year for the mo £ part high unempl yment and Continu d on Page 16 STATE'S AFRiCAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY" , Harry Benjamin Brown turns love of harp into business around for a partner. He found Dougla ills, a former South Haven shop teach...…
…�1'ft.� THIRD ew York, .Y. - The late t CBS/ ew York Times poll ha found Rev. Je se J ac n third most popular among the potential Demo cratic party pre idential con tender . ccording to the survey former .S. nator Gary Hart was the leading -Dem crat winning the approval of 33% of those polled; ew York Governor arlo Cuomo placed cond with 17% and J ck n placed third in a field of eight ossible contender with 9%. There were no...…
…C al ng AACP elec ions p • ric • e 3 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' Pa en organ·ze to sa e bovs- 2 "SERVING THE - ca - I • • Ip y Lany . Still N 'PA News Service SHI GTO , D.C. - The tional Urban League's annual State of 81 ck Americ report "show American ippin back into bein comfort ble with re gr ation in the hool , ith a retr at from civil right with drug bu , failed economic d ci welfare policie and inere s...…
…VOL. VIII NO. 13 FEBRUARY 24- ARCH 2, 19 Blames critical report on disgruntled members NE YO� Bo d of Director and Special Contrfbutio Fund trustees of the AACP ccepted "with enthusi m" the 167-p e an nual report ubmitted by E e- cutive Director Benjamin L. Hoo s at the annual meeting held at the arriott Marquis Hotel this put Friday and Saturday. Hoo ,ftring a &y at & criti cal article which appeared Thursday in the New Yor...…
…A coalition of more than 100 or aniz tion denounced Pre i d nt Re an's dr tic cu in human inve tment program nd nnounced a major c rn pin to chan budget priori tie . ore cut in ocial program constitut " profound threat to both our ecurity and our fu tur ", tate an op n I tter to th Pre ident nd Con re th t alr d b en i ned by mo t of the Co ition' members. Th bud et that the Admi ni ration propo ed Wednesday ould cut progr...…
…VOL. VIII NO.11 FEBRUARY 10 - 1�. 1986 Krusb Groove Stars: Rappin' on who you are rap tyle that i popular among young people tod y. urtis Blow and Run D C ee that rappin h proven to be an effective way to re ch America' youth. , R p i their langu ge," Blow, 'and many r ppers u it to get tronger me ge aero to stay in chool to ay away from dru sind in thi instance, to find out more about who you are d where you come from." ys Syl...…
…25 / U.L State of Black -.------. m rica EW YORK - The pr ent economic recovery has failed to reach Black America where the income level now is 10 er than it as at the start of the 1980 rece ion leaVing it in the grip of the mo t severely depre ed economic condition of the po t war period.john E.Jacob, Presi dent of the National Urban League, declared here Thurs day, January 13, 1986, as he released the NUL'I annual report ...…
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…tor of Union the program e . Rebecca Co' op 1 ells '11 rve on a 15- member bo rd hich is respon ible for all property 0 ned by th Church of God in Chri . The denomination, b d in emphis, Tenn,,' the larg t Bl ck penteco I church in the United State with more than 3,7 million memb r orldwide. e 're ponsibilitie include supervision of the 34 million All Saint University proj ct, which i being dev loped in downto n ernphis; 0 rs...…
…ID EY PaRlE JOE LOUIS 1Mt5UI.l TO AGE2 o t under the best of circum- tance t 'adde ocial psycholo- gi t Jam cGhee, Ph.D., re arch director for th Urb n Le ue, D.C. ingly bi a cial, economic, and health condition, Blac mal "Becoming cies when they are working; be incarcerated and executed; kill or be killed in homicide ; and end up in mental institutions for p ycho sand neuro s that are fatal twice as often as they are fo...…
…ion for o er t 0 ours, onday ev n . g, the Be ton Harbor City Commission voted to gi pay to City ager Ellis itchell, department head, and deputy department heads. Th commi . on lOted 5 to 2, with Commissioner chael Govatos abstaining, to grant . tcheU a salary increa to round 50,000, from his pre- nt S46 000. tchell' eon- tr ct as extended to February 1, 1986. Commissioner Charles Hen- derson and yor ilee Cooke t th t 0 di nt...…
…BIG MA , TH,EA IMAL TAME lWO BL C ENTREPRENEURS TACKLE A WHOLE DUSTRY e4 y Terry eDy Eight months before three tots and their 16-year-old babysitter peri ed in a rue at 248 BeUview, Benton Harbor, city inspectors had detected 'a gas leak at the lve" of a fir floor ga heater. . The city too no action against the landlord to correct the defective heater OT any of the other code violations listed in a five-p ge inspection report dated...…
…. ./ . BULK RATE US. � POSTAGE PAID B nton Harbor, I 4 022. P m 0.50 00 F I . VOL. VI. O. 11 flE ... UARY 12 - II, 1,'14 Oowaga.c Olilly New, photo by John Eby t, in • cotton ·chard _,,._ Chun: production of "The Way .. -_,., .... 1PV 26 Mt. Zion, 100 Miller Street OT -P 3 j' '. I �5C J' , 1 , , , NO NORTH'OF MAl BUY-OUTS By Terry KeUy BE TO HARBOR- "That is a witch - the folks talk out of both sides 0,( their mouths,...…
…BULK RATE us, T • LAU YO 11 , POSTAGE PAID . Y .4 B nton Harbor, I 49022, 0 VOT P m 0.50 01) V! • o' LA CALL ADD ssco cno -P 7 REQUESTED • . oJ ill the flow of federal Housi and Urban velopment (HUD) dollar into the city of St. Joseph bre down racial barrier there? The city has been tentatively approved to receive S500,OOO in small cities block grant fund from the Department of Commerce. The funds will be l...…
…[ ..! " Berrien County Action B A) ha adopted .. new r ertificati n sy tern for distribution of U.SD.A. surplus com modities, ccording to Loui Price, BC Outreach 'ector people must . be certi n or before Friday, Feb- ruary 24. The nnouncement follow on the heel of a state report highly critical of the agency. The ne certification system is aimed " t eliminating duplication and fraud, curbing cost and simplifying the pre ent di...…
…. BULK'RATE u.s. POSTAGE PAID I. IM.IIte ... H Ibor, I 4 22 . 0.50 BENTO HARBOR The County Action (BCA) Board of ton and staff ju got report card d it 't good. An 't of po y ency done by Department of Labor, Bureau of Community Services Iutw e i the future of DCA. The I te e s that BCA funding milht be entirely or partially cut off. The study ound problems t y: -DCA. "reliability is .peel, particu larly in regard to flSCal ...…
…I SID o. 12 FEBRUARY 23 - ARCH 1. 1 3 tially affect city 'on t t none of OYALTY e. Commissioners unanimou y proved an arrange- Co· on 2 …
…VOL. V O. 11 FEBRUARY 16 - 22. 1913 o day or op, had to po • pone the ion until ed- nesd y, Feb. 16 noon bee u the city official ere in Lansing. Though t city voted three eek 0 to offer tax anticip tion note for 5450,000, the to do so h bmitted to me er y y . Go emor Jame chard and St te Tre rer Robert Bowman reed to the early relea of 575, 000 of re enue aring fund ' city of Ben ton Harbor could meet it February 15 P yr...…
…VOL. V NO. 10 commi ner ith • • TO PAGE 1 ould be taken until th full commi ion a appri d of th ltu tion t the on day J oh reporter after the onday night city commission meeting that hen he riv on the job three mont 0 t ere a no printed budget, no report of reve e or expenditure for either th current or p fiscal years. Johnson said the city' reque to sell 450,000 in t anticipation ould be bmitted to the st te for pproval by O...…
…F B ton rbor, 49022 .5 VOL. V O. 9 FEBRUARY 2 -I, 19 3 AIIO L B PTIST CO VE TOTO EGISTER 3 MllLIO EW VOTE 5 Over 5 000 nun ers and laymen 0 the ational Rapt' Convention USA, Inc. (NBC) meeting in t on Rouge, Louisiana, too actions that. ill dram tical Iy affect th B commu nity nationwide, ccording to Rev. Donald Adkins, p tor of Second Rapt' Church, Benton Harbor. R . Adkin, who at tended the mid inI of the Ellis U, .....…
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…BHHS SECURrrY STAFF - to If, k, front ro Cedric Culpepper; MK· :bae ro : Joyce Johnny HOJlIO'In By C . De Phi p. Sorority alloca ed $ 1000," e ex- Th appearance of (OPP). plained, "So e are going Coretta Scott g, S., ho is also to the next Senate meeting er B History ee member of the LMC Stu- on Feb. 19, to reque t Lake . chlgan Colleg , an additional $500. This came cl to being con- will be tight, but if ticket celled becau of good, ...…
…FEBRUARY 10 - 16, 1982 Servi Tri-COunty Southw.!st .. � tter n. e other, indicted by a -federal grand jury 1 o mber, He f ce a e of fraudulently ob taining fund from a 1 cal band, ith Gavin, char e of con pir y to commit bri rv FOI cAf; t te timony + t Patterson, all but o of the c unts e contr ctor ould be dropped and a recornmen ti made to the court of a two-year maximum ntence, th an id G vin d tome id. had b n offered ...…
…• • struction iii job aea1ed by Multner built." It Ad If Council that be the for JDOI:litor ch actmty. Propo O(JJlnent 1pUrted, IUppOrten by the En . Zone � of . portance of that III· .901111& .,tI ..... � referred to Urban game on an equ footing," B busir leSSItIWl vide for a " e zone. 1 so of credit; - Only SO percent 0 e on SIS0,000 of gro d to be id; - Fifty percent of for that if a com part 0 a dard build- ...…
…id that ial federal H al propo d federal con trol on price, ren intere t r te and irnpor . inc� r�boon 0 domestic and foreign in st ment . and 30- ur or ee ith 4O-hour p y. " In a during a prayer rally in the h dquarter of Operation SH, 939 E. 50th St., Sava . d, "Re an gives littl con- . dera tion to th spec plight of b Am rican - but th little he doe give is 0 than th t of any pre ident in .the t 50 years." P S TO SHIFf...…
…o. 11 FEBRUARY 18 - 24, 1981 ins in,'I m t City an ger h computed th am unto aul y h d not returned any of th lls pu t in to him by pre tune edne ccordin to Gr u P rs nnel Dir tor f r th city th I y off: in ommunity De elopm nt d In ction D partmen ts ere tempor ry, and the r t of th affected or er received "indefinite layoff V ughn id he s no- till d by City ana r P ul aul y en he ani ed or edne ay mom to prepare th pink ...…
…VOL. III O. 10 F.EBRUARY 11 - 17. 1 ESTER ICHIGA 25 CE TS Geor ddell 46 Bri in, e pre d his and me of his neighbor con cern 0 er the po . ility of Palmer's Grocery lling pd' or at his Fair and Britain store. dd II ted,' yen though ther are busine alr dy in th neighbor hod, thi type of establish men u Ily h a cro d n the premise similar to P lmers on Broad ay and Ro . '8 Party Store on Terri torial. This can and pro b b...…
…VOL. III 0.9 FEBRUARY 4 - 10, 1981 CIty. To v, Tue ay ill be t payroll th city can m t c:£ ley unced. There is only enough mon y to continue city operation for anoth r o to three ee , he noted. To the listener, an udi nee p ked with the citf;' police officer, the p recei d with you kno { the county and state police? I e ed 20 year plus a policeman and now what - to be cCau ey prom' d city ould h lp its employ- . s form the...…
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…Tum to 5 VOL. II O. 11 FEBRUARY 20 - 26, 1980 ESTER ICHIGAN 20 CE TS be C"r'han� you, Crispus Attuc�s, fOT falling in the cause • 1-, of liberty. .. Than� you, HaTriet Tubman and Nat TUTner, too, fOT so stTongly bac�ing up the belief that all men are bom free. Than� ·you, Blac� composers, �noum and un�nown, for lifting the spirit above' the daT�ness of slavery thTough soul, • stirring song th�t lighted the flame of faith, enabling ...…
…S P G VOL. II o. 10 ESIDE D d pertaining to civil rights h d rna d to pro ect b ° c rigb ts b t that dO rirnin tion till festered and gre ° The reversal civil right gain many rigins Bond but 0 of th origins of t e ction an era Rich d ixon president in 1968. 'The majority of the American popula tion quickly then began a movement, halting d di rganized t flrst but pe e," in lid 1 driving b hope- de by minority id Bond....…
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