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…VOL XIV NO 6 DfCU,1B� R 2(' JANUAHY 4 lyQ2 in unity in r f ii, op nd 0 rbu in y our community mor c n.lnth yow c n,inord rtole utirul nd ben ficial th n I I Testimony at NAACP hearings on brutality ISY HANK LOW KAON A OCIA TED PRESS WRrrER INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - There i a political moke creen in In­ dianapoli that allows the city's police to terrorize its Black citizens, a wi tne told national NAACP panel investigating police c...…

…VOL XIV NO.5 DECEMBER 22 - 28. 1991 I on n By THA IEL SCOTT shin ril., 3O-pl years, ente the world of the litUe people. He makes magic, builds fan i and walks the field of dreams and imagination where prejudice and the baping of individuals come face to face with the clean late of childhood. LOD .RIGG Iohlqn Cltlz n There are not enough African American male role model in Detroit Public School, id Board Vice Pre ident Frank Ha...…

…- - - - - - - - - - �- . --- . . VOL XIV NO.4 DECEMBER 15 - 21, 1991 - -- a ied reak for homeown r o B n on Harbor revival By JODI c. KLEIN C.,il.' N..,. S.,.,ic. lJ\NSING-For future homeowners, Benton Harbor may be the place to purchase a home. Since Benton Harbor is consi�red the most "distressed city in the state as well as the nation," residents in the city may receive a tax break on their property taxes, said Bob Jackson...…

…and or anization . ting fa ilitie "h in Michigan. In the 1991-92 budget, Gov . Engler eliminated general i tance to about 82, ble-bodied dults in th tate. VOL XIV NO. J DECEMBER 8 ·14. 1991 Jim Hani " 'Thank you "for . shopping Black' By NATHANIEL SCOTT h" Writ.,. HIGHLAND PARK-1bere are two things that are impre sive about • Pappy's Beauty and Barber Supply and Mini Mall, 12511 Woodward Avenue. One i adve ng stogan: "The only ...…

…Licensing exams on hold By JODI C. KLEIN Grad ua ring co metology tuden in Michigan rna y h ve to tash th Ir ci rs and combs until they are allowed to get their operator's licen . · lb b autyoperator' e am that used to be given four ti me a wee , to 40 tudents per day, h been eliminated for the month of ovember. In December and January th re will be 12 te ting dates as oppo ed to the usual 48. "Our past examiner retired and bec...…

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…VOL XIII tJ() t,' rJ( I'., r,1f � 1,1,.. "., LANSING-Rep. Jo eph F. Young. Jr., D-Detroit, beUeye that Detroit should get a greater portion of lottery profits, since the state's largest city pends the most money on the game. , Young either wants Detroit to have a bigger piece of the action in the present game or to have its own I ottery, � , "If we have our own lottery, we :would have our own winners," :Young said. Young has requ...…

…dl m I tr C record for I c o p r icipa Ion By TERRY KELLY D orr - Hope of Black contractors for their h re of the propo ed VA ho pit I construction project dropping as f t the thermome ter out ide. And faced with the di mal trac record of the apparent low bidder, Bate on-Dailey, the goal of 20% Black participation on the $230,000 million project seems as unlikely as the reappearance of summer's warmth . Virgil Cobb, president of...…

…W inatOD, DC-{CNS)-A the U.S. Senate ebated bi-partisan, comprom e civil righ bill follow­ ing the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thoma , Black Democra and Republicans here began d· c ing campaigns for the 1992 elections from the city council to the White House. With both major partie now foc ing on increased' Black vo er interest, the po ibility of African­ Americans eeklng the pre idential nominations in both maj...…

…L _ Mbanna Kantako and the Micro-Radio Movement ICHAEL TOWNSEND ion ir THECA EFOR ICRO-RADIO . • Mb nna Kantako i Black, blind, broke, and on the verge of creating media revolution in America. Kantako, who live ju t up the treet from Abe Lincoln' home in Springfield, D­ linoi ,i it 31-year-old un­ employed public housing resident who operates the nation's mo t notorious unlicensed radio ta­ tion. Known Black Liberation Rad...…

…By USHA ANCHA 0 CgtiGIN • LANSI O-Double bunking, elimin tion of everal recreational programs for prisoners and hort tamng can prove to be dangero combination for the tate. This i the contention of Fred Parks, executive director of the Michi n Corrections Organization, a pri on guard union. "One of the e day omething i going to happen. Somebody i going to get killed," he aid. Parks thin the proposed budget allocation for tie Dep...…

…op n By NATHANI L COTT SI!D'� r DBTRorr-Tue day, October 1 w the day tbat the Big Star 1beater, believed to be the state' only Black-owned movie theatre, opened at 1540 Woodward Avenue. 'The r, which expe to nge features every 10 to 14 o ned with "Boyz N The Hood" Big Star w nted to open with the recently-released "Ricochet; H but the Warner Brothers wanted S5,OOO down and the theater's funds were getting low. Conse­ quently,...…

…INFORMATION FOR EMPOWERMENT SyRonS gel Corrgpoltd.", The Michig n Stat Legi lature approved budget reduction pro d by Governor John Engler completely eliminating General As- i lance aid for tho e who do not have children and are not "di abled." The predominantly 'Democratic State Hou e of Repre entative passed 8 bill which would provid South African family fight d port tion. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Iph and n Gu tell d 't nt t...…

…'pr rm r ' chool I ppm tion te m t. ult downtown coece . She . d � una are of the orth Central findings. The orth Central Report . ued after evaluation team of 23 educato spent three days at the school in April, 1991. "RenaiS-WlCC is not given special co ideration by area or central dministration a school with a pedal purpose and pedal needs," the report sta . "In many respec , the school does no live up to its claims 0 reputatio "...…

…ELSCOTT the Coleman A Young center, were not cI ed while Brew ter Center, which h a hi torieal plaque in front of it, in addition to receivin Federal id for lcohol and drug abu e programs, ere cIo ed. Kay Everett .' clo the on ith Coleman A Youn on it" COU C L ID T fIey 'd,"If the recreation cente ere closed (by the mayor' dministIation) beca of the inoendiary con t, it (the contract) . igned .... Ay hould be opened, 0 . th peopl ...…

…, lor Jackson places blame in poultry plant fire . pected to announce oon wheth r h will eek the Democratic presidential nomination, po e to the crowd for 20 minutes in � ceremony that too on a religious fervor. h poke, a tencb eman ted from Im­ perial Food Product, where workers bad prepared chicken nuggets and marinated chick­ en breasts for restaurants and grocery stores for 11 years. Mo t of tho e in th crowd were Black, but AS...…

…ByD NY 00 C 1ft ICAl...AMAZOO-Mo than 330 p . one cram amazoo Coun- ty Jail e open the door. Sheriff Thoma Edmond m t reduce the jail' population to 293 or le to prevent ntence reductio from being ordered under the te' 0 ercrowding emergency law. Th commissione, and the chief judge of the,county, while seekm to apply the overcrowd­ ing· emergency law, are blatantly viol ing many other righ of t e confined, according to in­ mat...…

…VOL XIII NO, 41 m rican Wor African by ry Hell "Our history in merica is full of examples of outright deceit, abuse, violence, discrimination and exploitation. This p nomenon is in­ grained. We have come to accept, without question, the premise that African mericans and other people of color are assigned to the most dirty, hot, hazardous, tressful, and low-paying job ." - Willie Jackson, Executive Director White Lung A soc iation 'S...…

…DB'J'Rorr-Aa the days of lummer rapidly give way . tbe autumn old, ACORN (Alloclation of Community Or.anizaUoDl for Reform ) tumI the beat. Saturday, August 17, ACORN held a protest rally; proteslln ,HUD', (Housing Urbin Development' ) policy of U' IDOIt of i propertie to " peculators" DOt "owner- occUpan ." The rally, which w at­ tended by approximately 200 Northwelt rcaidcn , w held at Perfectin Church, 13220 Greenfield. Ac...…

…VOL XIII NO. 39 AUGUST 18 • 24. 1991 - - U Fear community out 0 $250 million VA job By TERRY KELLY Michigan Citizen Writer DE1ROlT-Watching all piece of the $250 million Veterans Ad­ ministraion construction project lipping away, members of the Na­ tional A ociation of African American B ine e (NAAAB) brought together thi wee, th major Blac contractors wi th re- ntatives from Congre m n hn Conyers office to say stop be project ...…

….. '. (I .1(11 �JO 3tl AUGUST 11 i : 1"'11 whi pollee force, Rev. J e J c on joined I com­ munity unity march organized here A t 7 behind , ing rae I te io surrounding the Jeffrey Dahmer Earlier the same day, the Mil lukee Pollee sociation voted overwhelmingly to for the 0 ter of Chief Philip Arreol for s pending three patrol­ men who � tioned but did not arrest Dahmer. • DAHMER on P ge AUICBB -The unveilln of pollee iOOif- • ferenc...…

…110 t re I r Ily to remove Mu kegon County ProseculOr Tony Tague from office. Though 'the rally w attended by over I hundred people, another 150- 200 bowed up to sign an approved recaU petition. Also on hand at the rally I VJ) r re . trar to register unregistered vote who wanted to si n the petition. Am 8 the pe kersattending (hi rally were Mini ter WiJliam X Wilker, repre ntatlve of ' the Na­ tion of Islam; Robert Green, the fat...…

…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...…

…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 ...…

…',/Ut "', tJ( ", •• I t. IlIII' 1 1·,' I) t " , , " ' " - P3gC 2 Liberian Tragedy Continues • byD D ClJpillll New Senice LANSING-The budget cut th t could hurt the rt com­ munity in Michlg n will hurt all of the community, but it ill hit minority rti t e pecially hard. Orant given to the art have been su pended at this ti me nd Gov. John Engler plan to elimin te those grant . The executive director of the Michigan Advocate f...…

…ts tr Ie, In the 1 1 Lo I P. a d Enlyn S It lr t mend eat Award by tbe ord H II orum t a tribute to ber, eld at ortbea ter U Inr Ity In Do ton, M , May S. Mn. Par wa onored for her lifetime of ervlee to tbe principle of free peee . She I joined he re by Elma Le I (I) artistic director of the National Center for tbe M sen of Afrlun-A eric b Artl ts and local children after t e award ceremoDY. (pboto: (c) DOD West). U ba . Le...…

…NATIO AL CHAM.PIONS- Highland Park Community Hllh Scbool' "ParU Be rs" captured back-to-baek national titles In parliamentary procedure, last month, In KI Immee, Florida. T e' even member team members are Vlcent Bryant, eated, and left to rl ht, Dara Jobnson, Anqulnette Hughe , Candace Hunter, Le Ite Kilgore, Sylvia Looney and Key Cbr topher. Bry nt, wbo affectionately call blm elf Kina, w dethroned, John on ld, when be explained the te m...…

…Actlvl t Angel Davl preached the revolution of If-help during her Detroit visit promotln the Black Women's Black' Women work on health by DERRICK C. LEWIS Staff Writer .The Detroit Black Women's Health Project hosted activists Angela Davis and Byllye Avery to speak on issues af- . fecting Black womens health, last Friday at Wayne County Community College Downtown Campus. The night's topic was "The Politics of Black Women's Heal...…

…• narl t charg Conflict of inter byD C.L WI Staff Writer . Cruce is now president of the MIF, nd state Rep. Nelson Saunders stated in a letter to state Attorney General Fr n . Kelley that "The appe ranee of a conflict of intere t is trou­ bling," and a ked for n inve - tig tion of Cruce and the MI , Saunder ys the MIF had irect ry significant in- tere t in t outcome of the legisl tive ctions relative to uto insurance. th t ...…

…, " ..', '. I / ' .� , ' ._l' _ - " } 'I • The planned reduction of military force th t w del yed by "De ert Storm ill likely reduce the number of Blac Americ n in the rmed ervice by from 100,000 to 110,000 over the next five ye r . Thi red uction, which the military plan to chieve prim rily by cutting recruit­ ment, will, in combination with rece ion in the near term, ig­ nificantly reduce opportunitie for Black curr ntly in the...…

…ay BLJsh behind cover-up '. ' \ 1/1 \,' • .;. ' '. . I According to Bri n Bee er, n tion I org nizer of the Co lition to top U.S. Inter­ vention in the Middle E r, un­ cen ored video-taped age of former Attorney Gener I R m ey CI r ' vi it to Ir q during the w r, contribut d to the firing of two televi ion e - ecutive , and cau ed another t ti n to tot By hun the footage. Becker id n NBC execu- tive w terminated after greeing ...…

…-. • • V('l \'11/ NO 20 ApII17-13 1991 - �O c c nt s • • . . r He onl Iv to a they f1uen e d y r e. Conyer dd that Bu hs pack ge involve plan for "more pri on , more puni h­ ment, and more pro ecutor ", which would "do little to top crime in the treet." C o-n- r man John Conyer, n Afrie n Am ric n legi I tor repre ntin the fir t di trict includin both Detroit and Hi hland P r ,and enior member of the U.S. Hou Judici ry...…

…by DERRICK C. LEWIS Staff Writer The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) has identified more than $250 mil­ lion in Medicaid claims not paid to the state which Michigan Blue Cross/Blue �.��.��� ve i bility or, a ordi to a GAO report given by Rep. J ohn Conyers during a news conference last Monday. The claims date back to 1972, with the Medical Ser­ vices Agency (MSA), which administers the state's $2 bil­ lion Medica...…

…gonH i h byMICHA CHILLICUTI' Mulh,on Co",spoNl.nt Ju t ix month ago. JoAnn Robert w ppointed su­ perintendent of Muskegon' Height Publ ic Schools. Now six months later, he ha be­ come the t rget of thre t and an attempted fire bombing at her home. Robert ha vowed to repair the Muskegon Height School sy tem, which she s Id I. In "ruin ." She blamed the recent thre t nd violent ac­ tion on politician nd Ichool official who have...…

…Caddying pays off tor Detroit students Kudo to four Detroit high Ichool students, ho were. prolent d ith four-year Icholarships from the Bvan Scholar Founs! ion at la t T aday Detroit' school board eetin . C I Technic 1 Hi h School loniorl Tod Willon, brothers a e and Shawn Ward, and Rc aiaunce Hig School I.aior Kevin Siefker ore the Blacks can· fight media • racism b1 Lea A. SalDuel Corr •• ,oNl'nt , " , . tereotypical ima...…

…ome ay that it I . the most concentrated location for craclc cocaine le in e on County. But the resident of t Par anor, nown a 'Brie City', de cribe it a a nellbbor oocS tbat ent from being a relatively nice place to live, &0 a crime-infested baven for crack cocaine dealen nd en In j t 0 year.. . Tbe 200-u it public ho in project in the northeast drant of MUlke on ei bts il predominately Black. It I al 0 dra n a lot of attention from p...…

…ey d NNPA N� Service WASHJ GTON, D.C. African-American Ie der , call­ ing for cea e-Iire in the Per ian Gulf War, have adopted a n tion- I trategy which includes up­ port for con cientiou Objector nd war re ister nd rete e of n "open letter" urging Pre ident Bu h to begin negoti lion iHl Iraqi President S dd m Hu ein, Participants at a recent day- long me ting convened under the aus ice of the National o by are hi her amon whi...…

…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...…

…• VOL. XIII NO, S January 27 - February 2. 1991 50 cents OU an 0 i ters y the P ntagon 1 L 0 ttempting to hide the growin re i t nce , e .p c ial ly mon re ervi t. The Pent gon tated about 100 oldier have ought con cientiou .. Objector (CO) -Haitian born Air F r talus according to the ATWJ. vi t Rorratd B8 t-�t Military coun elors say the wa given a le: than honorable Army ha revised it rules in n di charge De .17. after he main- e...…

…, ., LAN ING - Michigan .re idents may h ve to w it until 1994 to ee th full 20 perc nt property tax cut. Gov. John ngler promi ed in hi camp ign. With the new adrnini tra­ tion wrestling with a pot n­ ti 1 $500 million budget "defic tt Budget Di rector Patrici Woodworth said the property tax cuts �ay have to be slowly pba ed in over the course of the next four years. "You can't dump a full 20 percent cut po all,.y one year, "...…