…• 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. 30 An Informed People is A Free People JUNE 19 - 25, 1994 Marty Katz for The New Yen 11m" A conference of prominent Blacks that was sponsored by the NAACP ended with vows of unity. Organizer, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, center, aid anoth r meting Is planned, Min. Louis F rrakhan of the Nation of Islam, left, and Rev. AI Sharpton. By ALLISON JONES With AP wire report! BALTIMO Black leaders met Monday to begin devising an ...…
…VOL. XVI NO. �9 An Informed People is A Free People JUNE 12 - 18. 1994 By NATHANIEL SCOTT Mlch' .'! Cltlz._n __ , _ __ _ jed, ref rs to as: "eli dvantaged" eon tractors. According to Tatem, disadvan- taged contractor can be Bla His panic, Native American or someone who is not properly educated. A percentage of the project is also suppose to got to women contractors, Tatem maintained. HIGHLAND PARK - The long a waited repair and ...…
…VOL. XVI NO. 28 An Informed People is A Free People JUNE 5 - 11, 1994 Khalid Abdul Muhammad, the Nation of I lam figure shot on Sunday in Riverside, Calif., addre ing a Los Angele crowd the day before. M lim hit a trial s·1l y ? _,._,-. protection while h pitalized. OTHER VICTIM IN the at ck were security guards, Vernado Puckett, 34, with gunshot wou nds to both 1 gs and the chest but listed in good condition, Caliph Sadig, 33...…
…PAGf AJ Native American dispute with WSU builds steam III) casino proposal dies By TUREKA TURK 1chlll!n Cltlan - PAGE A3 VOL. xv NO. 32 An Informed People Is A Free People JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 1993 Coretta Scott King, wife of lain lead r Martin Luther Kin Jr. and civil righ activist in her own right, is calling for Ion overdue reparations to ub-Saharana rica. "In 1990, the United Stat pro vided I than $1 billion in foreign aid ...…
…PAGE A3 Racist C.X{1111 prohibits lVl\'l/ (t.: radu {II if Jll Were HP city layoj]« preventable? - PAGE A5 o 1 VOL. XV NO. 27 ;111 /nfOffll"cI People Is A Free People JUNE 20 -- - 26. 1993 CURllS URPHY ut Inter-City Bank beca they out expl tion. r Stamard ere doing omething," Murphy Federal inv ted in economically de- ·d. p ed areas, he ·d. Murphy aid the FDIC' inv ti- urphy aid tat meeti with gating his complaints g 'mt Stand-...…
….llk buz, pr frozen rabb . Ironically, th tore i a recent re cipient of the Spirl t of Detroit Award, ard given by t City of Detroit to ou tanding iOOividual or org . - tiom for e ceptional wor don in ? Suburbs move to .seize water board By LEAH EL fp!olel to til. hlp .. Cltlztln Al on the committee are Senators Jon Ci ky (R-Saginaw), Joel Gougeon (R-Bay Qly), Jam Ber ryman (D-Adrian) and George Hart ' (D-Dearbom). While comm...…
…Modern slavery practiced in Brazil .. PAGE A� HP YMCA evicts jobless tenants j . PAGE AJ VOL. XV NO. 29 1\111,,'o"n('dP('(lp/t'/sAF,e(}Pcop/� JUNE 6.1993 - JUNE 12.1993 Detroit artist Benny White stands in front of his most recent project, a bigger-than-life mural depictir_lg great African American. The mural is WANDA F. AOOUEMOAE/Michig n C iz n painted on the side of Black-owned AAA Party Store, 13023 E. Warren in Detroit. JU...…
…res . ulf you're in 10 e an emergency curfew, you ought to have a plan for dealing with the 70,000 homele in this city," ACLU attorney Paul Hoffman said , during a news conference. Bradley spokesman Bill Chan dler replied: "The mayor impo ed ACLU, P ge 8-10 ·Ice-T' ong "COp Killer" warn police to top . brutality . RTI T IN THE MAKING - Aujual JohnsOn, 1, recently jnsMd r artistic biliti during Family FWl Day For Special P...…
…� ." OU J NBW YORK (AP) - Rap sin r Si ter Souljah id that Bill ainton is a racis t; cc ed him of posturing on racial mat ters "like a lot of white poli ticia "and called the Democrat a oking, draft dodging omanizcr. Appear ing two morni television talk hows Wednesday and at 'a pre con ference T ead_y, Souljab re ponded to an attack on her by Clinton i I� , - " . . .. , , Yea, _b olulely (Clinton is a racts...…
…By TERE A KELLY CINCINN TI, 0 '0 -Supporters of the Rev. Je J c on h ve pushed the effort to get J c on on national ballot to a technological high. An electronic petition drive . now underway throughout the United States to rally upport for Rev. Jac on as the Democrat's vice-pre idential candidate, according to Cincinnati publisher Marchita Malone, who launched the drive. "Many people believe that Rev. Jesse Jackson is ready, qu...…
…Politicians look to Benton Harbor model BY TERESA KELLY • "'.""'(:(1 of A ocl.t«J Pre IWpott by U •• Zag.roll BBNTON HARBOR-With debate over enterpri e zones rekindled by I the Lo Angeles rio , Benton Har- Propose 'POWER ZONES' ':If ROBERT W'TROTT ASSOCIATED PRES WRrrER MAKING THE DIFFERENCE - Re Ident of a northwe t Detroit community r cently protested the an ged beating of community r .Ident Mrs. Hicks, who Is Black, by th Arab ...…
…pound. lDauraoce Lonnie Baker told an iDq panel convened by Nlcbo and FBI in tf to , he .. Sharp e ins P eu, and bad got Involved'll he told Sharp that Powell hiding near a h con tainer. Baker aid he Po ell alive on the ground and he moved out of the way. "I didn't the man getti shot. I didn't know who got bot, . .1 w just 0 stunned that the gun went off," said Baker. Tbe boo in of a bopllftl ''''pect Ju e 18, by an In dianan...…
…o 0 to beat 0 di e nt dru downtown Detroit, A news conference was given at W yne S te Unive ity (WSU) I t Wedn day by a group of BI ck ae tivi ts also expressing their opposi tion to the "Detroit Salutes Its Heroes" parade. A panel consisting of Ab yome Aizikwe, of the Pan AfricanStudent Union, WSU; Edgar Dew, president of the Michigan Chapter of the Na tional Conference of Black L wyers; Carl Dix, nation I spokesperson of t...…
…byD C C. Staff Writer DBTROIT- The fir t of a eries of he ring on the State Hou '" of Repre ent tive and Sen te redistricting proces w s held I st Frid y in the City-County Building. Only seven people repre senting variou group and agencies testified before the red is tricti ng committee, chaired by Repr.ese nt at ive Maxi'ne Berman (D-South field). ' Redistricting, which t ke place every 10 years, uses popul tion d ta from ...…
…r Pro cutor crltlc/� NAACP for feW rei In drowning d th By TERRY KELLY "'kid." CilIu" BSNTON HARBOR - St. . Jo eph Police Detective Denni Soucek began questioning white youths about the drowning of Eric McGinnis before any news reports of the youth' drowning .urfaced. . Opportunities in military not what they seem by DERRICK C. LEWIS SI4II Writer , y That revelation from a reli able ource call into question recent t teme...…
….1 : ·111 tJO?H .J un. � - H 1)<) 1 )() l' I't .. ... , AIlBO - Q tio nd rumo la re a official main lIent a ut f c uno clin the death of Eric cGlnni, a 16- ear old Benton Harbor High S 001 op more. cGinnil' body a pulled from t. JOIcph River ed- day, May 22. The youth alIa t seen iday. May 17, ben hi fat er Excell cOiDnll Sr. dropped him off at a teen center in do nto n St. Joseph" . The police are offering no explanatio of bat b ...…
…Ten'ants call for Housing Dir cor's ou t r Cerence t the Fi r t r - byterian Church on Saturd y June 9. The Conference ended with march to. nd rally at 'he leffrie low-ri project. Temple at J hn Lodge. PUBL) HOU I d- vocacy groups. tenant -. mem ber of the Wayne County Union of the Homele and people from aero th city turned out 200 tron to up port. the re urbi hment r her th n destruction of the e vi able uni 19anizing ...…
…color of ju ice o her as ail double I andard in son' dea' h Blac la makers plit o chool und,ing , y CgpiIIIl Nnn Svvice By D rrick . Le Correspondent A gun hot in dead-end lIey on M morial Day weekend, end d the life of eventeen y ar-old Regin Id Elli . Th su . P ct. John M. 46, a white m n from SI. Clair Shore, i till at-large Iter a w rrant a i ued for his ar- LANSING - With the ever gro iDg Dumber of school finance pr...…
…on WASHINGTO • D.C.- -If taxation ithout repre- entation in America rong in 1776, it is till rong in 1990," said Rev. J e Jackson calling upon PresideDl Busb to meet ith him on the i De of Slatebood for W hiJa&1on, D.C. The predominananUy African American population of the tion's capi1al DO YOIi me ben in either the U.S. Sena or the H of KeI�1eD1a1i founding d ipaled three-fim. of a person - thougbt it be cia ere to locate ...…
