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-f-r-q "□67 2 0/‘75 ' LIBRARY COLLtCTlON hill LL..- ■■ 'k^CHUlL i\C 2'7514 Clltt^S Mapping Your Marketing Future With Conference See Page 8 Black College Sports Page See Page 12 ^if ^ of Deadwood Dick Comes Alive at Hayti Center { See ‘Insights ’ Front NC NAACP Banquet ro Be Held Saturday 7he North Carolina lAACP will hold its 12th innual Kelly M. Alexander, r. i Humanitarian Award ISnquet on Saturday, March 6,7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Jiperial Hotel, Research Tri- ngle Park. The Honorable larvey B. Gantt will be pre- ;nted the Kelly M. Jexander, Sr. Humanitarian ward. Fred H. Rasheed will j presented the Charles eLean Distinguished Ser- ce Award during the ban- Army, NAACP Task Forces Meet to Discuss Racism Issue ELVIRA GREEN, far right, 1962 graduate of NCCU returned recently for a concert. She is a mezzo soprano opeia singer. She chats with two of her classmates, .Mrs. Carolyn Gill and William Evans The concert was sponsored by the NCCU Lyceum Program. (NCCU Photo by Lawson) Will Enterprise Zones Work for Blacks? With the start of a federal enterprise zone program. New York’s arlem has a new optimism about an old problem - a pattern of fail- e of black businesses in this famed community. Federal officials ypver a half billion dollars is coming to Harlem; $300 million over ^ears for training, social services and loans, plus another $250 illion in tax breaks for businesses. Can Harlem and its black linesses make it this time? Harlem does have its assets: Three sub- ty lines that travel the three miles to midtown Manhattan; some fine ^nsiones and apartment houses and a rich cultural tradition. But it as lour buses regularly rumble up to Harlem, its residents often ad in the opposite direction. About three-fourths of its residents do ist of their shopping outside Harlem. "People here are asleep, mb. They don't want to take chances," says Van Woods, whose nily owns the famous Sylvia’s soul food restaurant. Woods wants use the zone’s tax breaks to build a food processing plant. s America’s Legal System Biased? [ccording to an October 1995 report by the Sentencing Project, a iprofit Washington group advocating alternatives to incarceration, irly one in three black men in their 20s is on probation, on parole in_jail, up from one in tour in 1990. The report, culled from federal I State government statistics, says in terms of drug-related crimes, cks constitute 13 percent of illegal-drug utters but repre.sent 35 per- tol arrests for drug possession, 55 percent of convictions and 74 cent of prison sentences. Blacks make up a little more than 12 per- 1 of America’s population but hold just under 800 (or about 3^5 tentj of the nation’s criminal prosecutor jobs. adillac Can Call For Help encrai Motors is introducing the first system for cars that will litialically call for help if a car’s air bag is deployed in an acci- 1. It will also include an array of other personal-communication iccs^ The device, called OnStar, offers navigational assistance Ks me country, unlike other systems that require reprogramming Mch locale. Other features include the ability to send out an exact lion in the event of theft or other emergencies. It works by link- ■ellular telephones to a communications center through a satellite, says it will make the first of these systems available as an option S'I997 front-drive Cadillacs. Group Alleges White Supremacy, Racial Hatred Behind Church Fire KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Acts of white supremacy and racial hatred are linked to arson fires at predominantly black churches in the South, including one where NPL star Reggie While serves as a pastor, according to a group representing black churches. The charges came hours before NFL star Reggie White, associate pastor ol the Inner City Church, ap peared at Austin-East High School. White denounced federal authorities lor suspecting church leaders of the Jan. 8 blaze that destroyed their sanctuary and sparked an outcry on racism. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Al cohol. Tobacco & Firearms denied the allegations by White and the National Council of Churches of Christ, as w-ell as any linkage be tween the fires. White and the group complained Wednesday that federal authorities had unfairly targeted church offi cials and members. By Paul Nowell CHARLOTTE (AP) - Army and NAACP representatives reached some common ground when they met privately March 8 to discuss their sena- rate investigations into the racial climate at Fort Bragg, the NAACP said One area in which they did not agree was a request by the NAACP task t^“ns°tfllatir"“ "We got no promises,’’ said Kelly Alexander Jr., president of the state NAACP and a member of the task force that investigated the issue ’’On some points we agreed to disagree," Still, the 2 1/2-hour meeting at a Charlotte hotel was helpful, Alexander said. ® "From my perspective, today’s meeting was extremely successful ’’ he said.^ Someone once said a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single he Mid^^^ NAACP will renew its request to visit the base at-a later date, A a task force from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released an 18-page report that concluded that there were serious race-related problems at all of the state’s military bases At the time, NAACP officials said the only base where they were not given full access was at Fort Bragg. Army officials said they were con- ducting their own investigation. Both investigations began after three Fort Bragg soldiers were charged with killing two black Fayetteville residents last December. Two of the soldiers were described by police as racist skinheads. Myi'jiTi!'® ha-s lookexi at the entire service branch, the NAACP has focused on North Carolina’s military bases. The results of the Army investigation are due sometime this month. None of the Army’s task force members attended Friday’s news confer ence by the NAACP. On March 6. Army Secretary Togo West Jr. confirmed that the task lorces would meet. "The Army is interested in the NAACP’s findings and recommendations and will consider their views," he said The secretary’s comments and the scheduled meeting followed a harsh assessment of military leaders at Fort Bragg by NAACP task force mem- bers. The NAACP is not on a military bashing expedition," Alexander said. Let s not let the military become somebody’s playground for incubating J.C. Smith University Professor Died Sunday CHARLOTTE — Dr. James Roland Law, a professor at Johnson C. Smith University, died Sunday, March 10 in Charlotte. Classes at the university were suspended for three hours Thursday, March 14, in his memory. The funeral was held (Continued On Page 2) America’s Black Press Celebrates 169 Years of Publishing vhat S. State Department Bias Suit Jecade-long racial bias suit against the State Department by black gn service officers is moving loward seltlcmcnt, with the deparl- ^wlnch has a predominance of white males in policy-making tons, agreeing to pay $3.8 million to the 350 current and former ts in the class action suit. The seltlcmcnt includes promotions ginstatemcnUs for blacks who were passed over and future ^ ol the evaluation process, diversity training and other aspects ■ oyinent, Many of the nation’s blacks have concerns about the ons of the Slate Department and the potential of racism there WPart^ment makes policy for foreign affairs and many blacks lat at the U.S. gives Israel, with its seven million people, four much money than to the whole continent of Africa, that has a laiion of almost one billion. ^me’s Autobiography Published pwobiography on Kwesi Mfume, "No Free Ride: From the I wm il” Mainstream in America" (One World/Ballantine Tn , j I’ookstores on July 8. Mfume, who is the “Y* he decided to take the oecause he learned at an early age that life is a short com- f “ter his mother died when he was 16. le’/fo "hen you can," he says. In the book, se from poverty to political fame is outlined from a y ung man named Frizzell Gray to become Kwesi Mfume "“congressman from Maryland. As the Black Press ol America prepares to celebrate 169 years of exis tence In this country, it, like the majority of its readers, remains invisible to the general community of America. With over 10 million readers a week and more than 200 newspaper operations in 38 stales, the Black Pi ess is the nation’s most constant, and ongoing, forum that illustrates of the stark racial divisions that exist in American society. Each week two different sets of media messages go out to the pubi There is no greater sense of the reality of the racial differences llii; America s general community newspapers and broadcasters report to Ihcii audiences and what Airican-Amcrican publications report to their subscribers," says National Newspaper Publishers Association President Dorothy R. Lcavcll. "Our reports for more than a year regarding the O.J. .Simpson Inal, and its racial subplots, wc-pc vastly different from all gen- cial media reports and analysis. And, although it was a surprise to the geneial community when over a million black men gathered on the Mall in Washington, wc had been covering the ‘Men Only’ meetings and the giass-ioois organizers across the country who made this event happen, loi more than a year," says Lcavcll. "Also, if the President or the Con- giess were to over stop and ask us, they’d find that, and a very broad cross-.scction ol African Americans, are opposed to the positions being taken on Nigeria. 11 we and the people we serve were not invisible to the President, Congress and establishment media, they’d know that there is a very close scrutiny being done on them in the Black Prc.ss regarding the unequal Irealment being given African countries as oppo.sed to European, and other kindred countries. We chronicle the African-American experi ence every week in such a positive and progressive way that we remain the most creditable source of news for African Americans over and above any other media," stales Ms. Lcavcll. On March 16, 1827, Freedom’s Journal was published in New York City by John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish, making it the first Black- oriented publication in the nation. Citing ihe fact that "For too long others have spoken for us," Freedom’s Journal came into existence to fight injustice and seek equal rights for Black people in America. Since the formation of Freedom’s Journal, 169 years ago. Black-oriented news papers have carried on the tradition. The second oldest institution in Black America (the church being the oldest). Black newspapers have been the voice of Black America from before the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. The NNPA trade association was started in 1940. when segregation was totally in force, by 20 publishers who were heads of newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, the New York Age the Afro-American chain and the Pittsburgh Courier. While Black America has lor more than 400 years either been vilified, or ignored, by the gener-, al media. Black newspapers have heralded this community’s good limes' as well as the bad, the liappy moments as well as the sad. "African-American newspapers arc rich with first hand reports of the major events and issues that affect our people," said Leavell, who also publishes the Chicago and Gary Crusader newspapers. "The greatest lunclion of the Black newspaper, and one loo often overlooked by ad vertisers and other media, is its value to the social accounts of our race The reports of community activities, births, deaths, funerals, weddings! parties and eonvenlions. The pictures and articles only available except in ihis source have a positive value and place in our society. We now need to show the next generation of our people how the black-oriented newspaper lias, and does, embody the very fabric of the African- American experience,'' Leavell says. Bill Reed, Ihc NNPA’s chici operations officer, points out that there is d dillerenec between the nation’s black publishers and African Amer icans who arc reporters, columnists or broadcasters who work for general media. He notes that members of the National Association of Black Jour- na ISIS (NABJ), the vast majority of which work in general community media outlets, are often couried as spokespeople for black America, and Its issues, as opposed to members of the Black Press corps, who have day-to-day interactions with black communities. Even though our editors and publishers are rarely interviewed for local or national broadcasts or publications, they are the ones who have their ears closest to the ground for what is actually happening in our com munities, said Reed. "This is just one way we are ignored and made in visible. But, when you look al how opinions on issues are formed by Af rican Americans, you’ll find Black newspapers more often than not have been the source of such information," Reed states. During the week of March 11, the NNPA '.'.'i'l celebrate the founding of Freedom s Journal and Black Press Week. The organization’s members will convene in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, March 14 to host an enshnnement ceremony on the campus of Howard University, inducting an outstanding deceased publisher into the Black Press Hall of Fame That evening at the National Press Club, the NNPA is sponsoring a din- ner event to name the Black Press’ "Newsmaker of the Year" for 1995.
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