…Jo 1 Fergu on tUIDP for vot in Hi bland ng chi an' Bl ck population Th Highland P rk Goepel R ma dr w 0 moer tic S nat candidate Joel Fergu on ( econd from 1ft). Fergu on wa gr et d by city Trea urer Ben Roland, (left) Ora Calhoun and County Commi Ion C�ir Art Blackwell. Ferg�on ne de BY ALUSON JONES DETROIT - A soi mn h h fl 11 0 r t hall hen 95-year old Audley Moore of Harlem pleaded tearfully in a barely audible, husky voic...…
…VOL. XVI NO. 35 An Informed People is A Free People JULY 24 - 30, 1994 -- .. - "'.�I_t .... • By RON SEIGEL Michl n Citizen D OIT - Congre sman John Cony ra, repre enting Highland Par and ome parts of Detroit, wants you to forget what Bill Clinton tells you about health care and what Bob Dole and Rush Limbaugh tell you about health care. Conyers maintains that it is time for the single-payer health plan. This plan would create a...…
…Purchase draw flack By RON SEIGEL COU CIL PRESIDE T Dwight Downes said he did no h r about the chair and so could not comment. According to the City Charter, the admini tration can make purchases up to 2,000 without letting city council know. , Council President Pro Tern . Christine Franklin said she h rd about the chait from a re liable source, but that she hoped this was not so. She said the city might have used furniture it ...…
…and Fri I VOL. XVI NO :\:\ An Informed Pcoph- is A Frv«: People .JlILY 10 - 16. 19q4 , P rception about race nd crime - particularly involving Afric n American male - trongly color th national crim d teo Though only five percent of a11st t crime now falls under f ral jurisdiction, Democrats nd Republican have r di covered th political potency of the crime' ue; and both politi cal parti are determined to "Get tough" on crime in ...…
…VOL. XVI NO. 32 An Informed People is A Free People JULY 3 - 9, 1994 By BERNICE BROW BENTON HARBOR -W it a good 1 on in civics or was it voter fraud? Berrien County Clerk Louise Stin believes the large number of ntee ballots cast by students at Benton Har bor High School raises serious ques tions ofpossible election fraud. She has asked the Berrien County Prosecutor's office to investigate. Benton Harbor Schools i- dents went to ...…
…TO OUG LA-Bill Cinton' at on th installatio of Ge ral Aidid in Mogadishu, Somalia, two weeks have been branded "racist" by p officeas of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (pG-RNA). Th office have demanded that the Clinton administration give a public account ing of the civilian and military personnel killed in U.s. air attacks and ground weeps and account for all homes destroyed. President Kwame Moh of the �...…
…N() Bl�A(�K IJ()Wl�R ill music iIllIIiS/IJ .. PAGt BI I VOL. xv NO. 35 A" tntouncct Pe-ople I'; :l f II'" ("'(1/>'1' JULY 18 - 24. 1993 Jud , tell eno: , ByJOH HORN JU.ocl.r.d Pr ... build caree "on the b "of ucb defendants. The un ual cballenge by U.S. District Judge Teny Ha er, of the Central District of Californi came as Reno fielded questio primarily concernin immigration and gang violcoce at a wnba1l meeting. Under th...…
…o Candidates discuss' Independent Black Political Agenda '0 ob ervers at Lewis College of Busi Only two mayoral candidat howed. Di c ion of the 1972 Gary, Indi- ana Blac Political Convention baped the evening's debate. T Gary convention was ed to illu tra th importance of grass roots input in defining any Black po litical agenda. After reviewing those happenings, on nationalist noted that "clearly the Nationali t, Pan-Africani...…
…_. L D orr 1- Two days r the deadline had p ed, and the petitions were filed, seven 0 the 2S candi for city' top job were invited to fieldqucstio from ome of Detroit' harpest veteran Blac journal' ts. ide from fielding tough qucstio , the mayoral mpef jabbed, hooked and 'ted one another in their race to ueceed Coleman A Young and be come Detroit' 62nd mayor. "Face the P ", held Thursday, June 24 at Wayne State University's Comm...…
…Gloom for LA's small Black busi ness - PG ,�) � '.,. .... , .. . � high sbelvea stoc:ked bottl 0 beer s like Wild IrilhROIeaDd N Ttain. Gilbert Potter came to Detroit in 1967 100' for wort. He found it Po ,69. I'd DOW 100 for If you JO to plat today lookiDJ for a J y11 tbiDt you' ei aazy or . WNOA F. RXiLlYMHiii '.., ... oar opened cIly'l Go:tPeI Rama. lGoIpII • 92' drew choi1 and goapeI group from tpOIlIOfId by the aty d Hgh...…
…,. ric n Am c n ,-- , t and ill t the lead." Acoording to Cobb, part of the problem 'th Conyer's 'lure t • VAJO, • P A.e D orr�umm be bot political �tuu. Detroit'. con commu nity, it'. a mId winter of d1IIppoo intmenL Foot-draggiDg politi e failed to tote the 8rc r co tuenb on ODe of choJcest , �cnt bui� ptojcc re- ce memory, tbc con say. Rising in the middlc of the Medi cal Center is S240 mlUion 11< am Admi ba on (VA) ...…
…uit rom A charge of radam and discrimina tion baa boen backed by a law .uit filed by two former .tuden1a at Wa� Sta1e University. - TIii .tudents are charging that the Eiigllah Proficiency Examination re quirement used by the Univel'lity is dis crimiDatory and baa prevented them from receiving their degrees. There are two proficiency exams ·math and EnaUah. Stuaen are required 10 take both exama and are allowed to fall ooce; ...…
…Coalition begins vo� registration drive U L Project Vote, along lth the AACP, the United Auto Wo era, Michl n SANE/FRBEZE 00 ot r IOC',I and n tional or aniz tio e banded to ther in coali on lDQeue the number of AfrIcan- erican and Latino voters In Micblpn. The effort announced at a June 30 preas confcrence at the Detroit Urban League beadq "Freedom Summer" II a non-par- multicultural voterre tra on LABRE A PRICE e ort spo red b...…
…rch for hum n n om ry ndtob o ire per it, t the LCMId&Ia .. said. About 325 'inmates, all of them field workers on the 18,000 acre prison f I'm, were involved in the ,IDcldent, Islant warden Richard Peabody d. , Peabody refused, however, to comment on reports that the job ac don linked to the punishment of prisoners bo refused to build a gur- y for inmates n need to death by lethal injection. An inmate w executed in the tate...…
…Mozambique at the Thre hold of Peace ke on wan pro ecutor ch eked By DESHORN W TKI a temple for God at Jul, 7tb MUSKBOON - On Friday, July �2, the Urban Leagu of Greater Muskegon formally reque ted the in tervention of the Civil Right Divi ion of he U.S. Justice Depart ment in W: hington, D.C. and the tate attorney general office in the even urrounding the homicide of Louis Franchot Green. A letter dd d to U.S. Assis- t nt...…
…NAACP, Tran Africa, ANC all rip U.S. action premature for two 0: "The violence (in the townshi ) h resulted in ituation here there is no climate for free political activity. Furthermore large numbers of persons, defined as political pri oners in term of greement reached between the ANC and the South African overnment, remain in jail," the ANC said. The South African Human Rights Commission said in a s tement it was convinced there...…
…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...…
…ajor Black groups: Ian fire chief b me for cnttdren death Ku Klux Klan members working for the Blakely, Ga., fire department are responsible for the deaths of two African-American children, according to a class action suit filed recently by members of the Concerned Black Citizens of Bla ely. The lawsuit identifies Fire Chief Franklin Brown as a member of the KKK and charges that a pattern of "unequal" fire protection exists fo...…
…, ·A Me age for BI ct Leaders," • resolution autbored by Dr. Carlton Goodlet, a board member of the . r Publis rs (NNPA), and t body the to no lonler co aDd promote the re ults or BI ck leaders net in their ffectiag Btac c a or groups to include the Black press in their ini tiaJ pI and negotiation in matters affecting Blac . The re 01 ution e poused the tradi tional role of the BI ck pres being tbe voice of the people, nd...…
…promi e from busine leaders that problem affecting the city's fric community mined. aid a E ARK. .J.---HHS Secreta ry Louis W. Sulliv n, M.D., called for "a open, frank, comprehensive nationa I dialogue on the cri i of the Blac male." Calling the crisis of the I ck male "a crisi for Americ ." Secret ry Sullivan told the National Convention of 100 Blac en of America, "A P inful s the ubject i - much a we ri r op ning ounds...…
…African city'« Denic c. Correspondent DETROIT - The applause from the audience, be _id, )Ie wisbed be could leave tbe ge and join tbe people in t e t nd nd "embrace one and all." . He wen t on to than tbe people of the Midwe t for wb t be called' their broad anti-ap rtheid movement. "Your olidarity b ve given trength nd courage. In the f ce of your own problem nd di fficul tie , you b ve not for t . e HI ver forget you" aid ...…
…ued 0 e2 o rr- During I pre conference I the Detroit P Cl ub Tue d y, Ju 26,' Arab American In tinne Executive Director Jam Zogby repudi led a claim from letter to out-or-state pro-Israel org nizatio from Michig n Sen tor earl Levin, t t th AAI him at the top of their hit I' t sen te pro-I Committee' I I …
