…o fi ea e oloea -P A7 VOL. XVI NO 10 /\n'"fOflIlIO(/f'I'lIp/I"" Ii f"'I'i't ('1111' r[B��ui��f ';7 '.'ARCH � 1".1('�4 ites ed? By MICHELE RUEHS C.plml New. Service LANSING - Black History Month is a time for people to work together to understand other cultures and to forge greater cooperation, but how does it influence everyday life?' In predominantly white ar eas, Black History Month, in February, may not have much of an e...…
…Lessons from Black History: Benton Harbor Mayor Emma Hull (center)' with city employee Steve Archibald (lett). wei com s community activist Sandra Dudley to a historic buslne. gathering ho ted by th So�hwe tern Michigan city last week. Story i on page 86. (Bernice Brown photo) VOL. XVI NO.1 '- An tntot mcd People Is A F,c£' People FEBRUARY 20 - 26. 1994 State, County set to okay Citizens charge environmental racism 8y RON SEIGEL . IA/c...…
…VOL. XVI NO. 12 An Informed People Is A Free People FEBRUARY 6 - 12. 1394 - t t By CRAIG HILL Michl n CltlDn from Philadelphia, music by Ibn Pori'z Band Unit #10, Grout, Ur ban Voodoo Juice, and Mikey Brown along with poetry by Os valdo J. Comalapa, and Willie Williams. Doors will open at 6 p.m. to 2 p.m. For more informa tion call (813) 275-8979. The movement to free Abu fol lowed his conviction in 1982 of murder for the k...…
…are charged to t location where the car' rated and it rated wh re it i garaged, 01 on d._ If car i garaged in Bloomfield Hill am h an accident anywhere in the country the 10 . recorded in Bloomfield Hill , he ide VOL. XV NO 15 An Informed Pe()ple I�, A Fro«: February 28 - March 6. 1993 Jobs plan awaits federal funding Urban projects top list . By MATT STRATTON S.tvIt:. ance in rural <10 not the city of Detroit, d c Stod dard, p ...…
…/ ES DET OIT -After year of using racial politics to rally city voters to hi ide, it ha come to light that Mayor Coleman Young doesn't wal the talk when it come to putting hi money where hi mouth i . � ced wi th ch llengers in the up coming mayoral paign, and uf fering the 10 of former financial backers, M yorYoung turned again saying that Young wa angered thi wee to the uncri tical Michigan over remar 1 t week by NBD Chronicle...…
…' . . " VOL. XV NO. 1 � J\n/fl/Oflll('d I'('oplt'/:. ;1 f t c» P('('I'II' Februat y 14-20. 1993 r�. I Chan y nd the Rev. Jo ph Lowery, p id nt of th Southern Chri tian Leadership Conference, announced a three-day human righ hearing in J on ., eginning March 16, to e amine the dea . Th tivi will pent evi- de _Bath red during the hearings to Congres and will demaOO con- g ional heari on the ab well pedal pro ecutor to County S ri...…
…III I Citv l/lIlIlIgcr (JIll {�/ic,. I ('.\'.\' 1/1 {III ,\ i. v tn ( ) III/IS I '. 'I' II , Highland Park youngsters recently participated in the Community Study Group Round Up and Bookfair at Barber School. Youngsters were treated to African storytelling by Shanta. Shanta deligJlted the audience with tales of Africa, cultures. ribbean and African American y r '0 'I Vio • I r By RON SEIGEL judge it for themselves, Conyer, wh...…
…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...…
…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 ...…
…VOL XIV NO. 12 FEOHUAH',' i .: . 18 I Sl92 , Education, Abstinence, or ... Condoms? By DAVID HO HART abitiDCDCe, peciaUy in the younaer , .. Tl'\IICOtt d. - Heavy campa! coDtrlb to HoUle Speaker Lewis N. Dodak are blocking apement on oxp dng parts of Michigan'l o-fau1t Insurance law, cilia an Bnalor admtniltra don polkellDlll. BnJler press aecrotary John Truscott kt the n Trai\ Lawyera Association hu been controllin Dodak thr...…
…VOL XIV NO. 11 FEBRUARY 5 - 11 � 1992 Jordan takes his image off NBA clothing 8-7 UAW says Japanese ignore civil rights -A-3 WVA , e that hi original guilty pie over," n ide cried, momen later. Inv tig tors tracin li nd following leads cro conunuents arre ted J m Earl Ray in London in June. Within year of the ination, on March 10, 1969, Ray pleaded guilty to King' killing. In his new book, Ray now calls th court proceeding a ...…
…VOL XIII NO. 14 February 24 - March 2. 1991 50 cents elth' office, aid the Hou e bill may not be implemented i but it ill "get the is ues out there." Thl bill would redirect . Tour promotes 'Choice' erlt. -;- by DERRICK C. LEWIS SItl/lWriter African Heritage: Where art meets busine s Wi con in State Repre entative Polly Williams was in Detroit last Friday to push for cbool of choice. William was in trumental in e tablish.ng ...…
…on Afric n Americans do not stand lone in' their fi ht for justice for the years of slavery. African will pre ent their dem nd for reparations to the United ation folio in eetin of the Or a ization of African U ity che uled for Niaeria hi June. ·We have more th n legitimate cl im for d m ge for the crime committed ag in t Africa. It's going to be a big i ue in the I t dec de of the millennium. We are going to pu h for It," Jide...…
…VOL XIII NO 12 February 10-16.1991 I c I d r qu on m h m , Bu h) th t this war mu t be won, but we now this conflict will not la t forever nd w.e need to ddre he pre ing i � ues on the home front ... " "African American h ve 1- w ys shared with our fellow citizens a tot I commitment to the protection nd defense of this nation . . . in our illing ness ... even our e gerness to take up arms whenever the need has arisen .....…
…VUL XIII NO 11 f [HHUAHY 3 C), 1991 50 Ce nt s Y DCC. L WI . Stalf Writer More tban 75,000 Blac died wh t experts c 11 "exce deaths" in 1987. The term refers to the number of deaths mong African American which would not occur if Bl ck lived under the ame health conditions as white. ate ee . .lnput on' wa te policy By BEAT ER L. H S CapiltJi News Serv·u I LAMS! G -If �ou are cerned about hazardous , Se WASTE, Page 7 , Homic...…
…EAST LANSING - Amid thunderous applause and cries of "Al1ahu Akb r (God i Great) from a capacity crowd an call of bout 4,000 at the MSU . Audi torium February 18, Minister Louis Farrakban said tbat MSU is a "modern day plant tion" that thinks nothing of Blac studeats. "Nobody care if you $uduate ith �egree, but put tbe ball in that hoop," Far rakhan aid. "You (MUS) use Black people to build your credit. " Farrakh n, leader o....…
…, Why no African Americe c manag y none qual f candidates, said Manning, . the problem that they had, without exception, the &p- . plicants could DOt pass the writ ten exam or the IDysical exam or if they did there ere other problems with background and drug e .. At the Monday night, Buttbecityisstilliooki fOl' February 5, Beato!! HaIbor aty qualified minority caadidatcs, Commission meeting, city resi- said Manning. . dent Ri...…
…BI!NTON HAUO - A Ben Harbor police omcer tin in to ., cCi man milta • Iy believed &0 be • rc 0 ccorcl- in to Berricn County Prosecutor Dc Wilcy. In a 19-pa.c statement Ie Feb. 8, Wiley d -the • tin, Jan. 18, or Norril Stephen Maben by 29-year veteran LI. MD Fiedler -j tira - tbougb Maben w unarmed and not a felon. "It (the jusUCi ble ruling) i not a urprise, " id ()pcration PUSH chief Rev. Walter Brown. "This i a practice in ...…
…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, ...…
