Daughter of Wjlliams plans museum
ATLANTA ( AP) - The iLiughter of late civil rights leader Hosea
Williams plans to build a museum and com
munity center on the site ot the house wnere
he lived for 35 years.
The building will be a repltc^of the brick
strubture where Williams and his wife.' Juani
ta, lived from 1965 until they died three
months apart in 2000. The house was torn
down this month because it wa^. .deemed
beyond repair, daughter Elisabeth Omilami
said.
Hosea Williams was a leader of the march
from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery in 1965,
which propelled passage of the Voting Rights
Act. He was with the Rev. Martin Luther
Williams
King Jr. in Memphis when King was assassinated in 1968.
Omilami said during a groundbreaking ceremony Dec. 30 that the
new center will include a gallery of photos from the Civil Rights
Movement, a listening room with recordings of Williams' speeches
and radio interviews, and a library that features a dissertation on the
Selma march written by Juanita Williams. The home also will be used
for banquets and activities tor seniors and children, she said, and the
grounds will include a meditation garden and a neighborhood play
ground.
Southern Regional Council civil rights '
group loses last remaining staffer
ATLANTA (AP) - The Southern Regional Council, one of the
South's oldest interracial civil rights groups, has lost its only full-time
staff member.
Luz Borrero. who became executive director in April, resigned.
On Jan. 5, she became Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's deputy chief
operating officer "in a temporary position." city officials said.
Borrero. 48. had been coping with difficulties that include a pro
jected $350,000 revenue shortfall. She slashed the staff of 12 full-time
employees to four part-timers and canceled the annual Lillian Smith
Book Awards program.
Toni Fannin, formerly of the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta,
told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she will become interim
director of the SRC effective Jan. I. Former board president Jean
Chalmers told the newspaper that she expects a director to be named
"sometime in January. "
At City Hall. Borrero replaces Gary Cox. who has been on leave
since September after being indicted on sex charges involving a
teenager. Cox denies the allegations
Haitians take aim at 'Grand Theft Auto'
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ( AP) - A lawsuit that claims a top
selling video game is dangerous to society and asks that it be removed
from store shelves will be decided in federal court.
Haitian civil rights groups filed the lawsuit because the game.
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City." instructs players to "kill the Haitians"
and awards points for each kill.
New York-based Rockstar Games
Inc. has agreed to remove the offensive
line from future versions of the award
winning video that has sold 1 1 million
copies.
But the Haitian organizations, led by
the Haitian-American Coalition of Palm
Beach County, also have asked for more
than $15,000 in damages.
The suit was filed Dec. 23 in state
Circuit Court in Palm Beach County.
Attorneys for Rockstar Games opted to
move the case to federal court, and that
motion was granted. No hearing dates
were immediately set.
The lawsuit takes on heavyweights in the video game industry,
including Rockstar Games; its parent company. Take-Two Interactive
Software Inc.: Sony Computer Entertainment: Microsoft Corp.: and
retailers Target. Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
The manufacturer of the game, in which an ex-convict is hired to
recover stolen drug money in the streets of Miami. Jias been harshly
criticized for its portrayal of Haitians.
Earlier this month, about I (X) Haitian-Americans demonstrated
outside a Wal-Mart Supercenter in nearby Boynton Beach, chanting,
"Stop 'Vice City.'"
CBS denies paying Jackson for interview
NEW YORK (API - CBS said that the network did not pay
Michael Jackson to give an interview that was seen by nearly 19
million people on "60 Minfites."
The New York Times, quoting a Jackson associate who was
not named, said that Jackson was paid SI million to reschedule
an entertainment'special that had been postponed in November.
That payment came on top of a previously
negotiated licensing foe for the special,
the Times said. The entertainment pro
gram. "Michael Jackson Number Ones,"
aired recently.
CBS has said that it would not have
aired the entertainment special if Jackson
hadn't addressed the molestation charges
against him with its news division.
The Times source said that, "in
essence," CBS paid him for the Interview,
even though the money came out of the
network's entertainmept budget.
But Jack Sussmari, CBS sice president for specials, said a
fee for Jackson's participation in the special was negotiated in
September and did not change.
Ed Bradley, the "60 Minutes" correspondent who inter
viewed Jackson, said he was unaware- of any financial arrange
ments that had been made with the pop star.
"No one ever said anything to me about a quid pro quo."
Bradley said. "No one said anything to me or anyone else at
C&S News about money."
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Malcolm X after abuse allegation
Transfer sought for Malcolm X's grandson
BY HAZEL TRICE EDNEY
NNPA CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON - The
lawyer and family of Malcolm
Shabazz, the 19-year-old
grandson of civil rights martyr
Malcolm X, say they are
requesting that he be trans
ferred out of an upstate New
York prison after he was
allegedly beaten and harassed
by prison guards.
"We have investigated it to
the extent that -we are able,
and we've concluded that
there was an assault on Mal
colm by prison guards," said
Ron Kuby, the New York City
lawyer representing Malcolm.
"What people need to under
stand is that this is happening
to Malcolm Shabazz because
ot^Wjho this young man is.... It
seems fairly clear that a num
ber of white corrections offi
cers view Malcolm with great
hostility because of his Islam
ic faith, his heritage, and the
fact that he's within their
grasp. It has been a persistent
problem, but this is the worst
that it's been to date."
Kuby has sent a letter to
- .Glenn S. Goord. commission
er of the New York Depart
meftt of Correctional Services,
asking that Malcolm be trans
ferred out of Great Meadow
Correctional Facility, a maxi
mum-security facility, five
hours from New York City, to
a lower security facility closer
to home.
Malcolm's aunt, Ilyasah
Shabazz, of Peekskill, N.Y.,
the daughter of -Malcolm X,
with whom the teenager lived
for much of his life, said she
visited him the day after
Christmas.
"I saw his lip was busted
and a lot of his arm had like
punch marks and then scratch
es and stuff.. . He was beaten
up. He was beaten up,"
Shabazz said in an interview
with the NNPA News Service.
Shabazz and Kuby said the
injuries are not serious, but
the harassment has^been con
sistent.
"They'rg, trying to break
his spirit," Shabazz charges.
"He has become more and
more focused. He has used the
time there very wisely, with
the reading and going deeply
inside of himself, becoming
spiritually grounded and try
ing to understand who he
and what everything is around
him."
The teenager, convicted of
second-degree attempted rob
See Shabazz on A9
AFP PHOTO/ J. m Levy
Malcolm Shabazz is led out of court in 1 997 after a hearing
related to a fire he set that killed his grandmother > Betty
Shabazz.
Milwaukee gets its first black mayor
Mar\'in Pratt will
serve until residents
go to polls in April
BY CARRIE ANTLFINGER
1 II I ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE - Common
Council President Marvin Pratt
took over the helm of Wiscon
sin's largest city Friday, becom
ing its first black mayor.
He replaced John Norquist,
who left office four months early
to take a job as president and
chief executive officer at the
Congress for the New Urbanism
in Chicago.
"I see wonderful things
ahead for Milwaukee," Pratt said
during the ceremony in which he
was sworn in as the city's 38th
mayor. "I have faith in the peo
ple of this city."
Pratt said he planned to hold
a cabinet meeting last week with
his department heads to outline
his mayoral plan. He also said he
plans to hold a job fair at city
hall, a town hall meeting for cit
izens to talk to city department
heads and ask city workers to
each mentor one student. His
spokesman Bill Zaferos said he
had not yet worked out a time
line for those things.
He also said he wanted to
improve economic growth and
improve the quality of educa
tion, among other things.
Pratt said after the ceremony
that he was firing Julie Penman,
head of the Department of City
Development, and' Zaferos said
Mike* Soika. the head of the
Department of Administration,
was quitting.
Norquist. who attended the
Attention Homeowners
Homes 1 year and
older need to be
checked for termites
"A flea circus is a
good act but it takes
termites to bring a
home down. "
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SPORTS BT
RELIGION. B5
CLASSIFIEDS B8
HEALTH. C3
ENTERTAINMENT... .C7
CALENDAR. C9
ceremony with his wife, Susan
Mudd. said his lasl duty as
mayor was to declare Friday
"Marvin Pratt Day."
"Marvin Pratt has distin
guished himself as a member of
the Common Council. ... The
city will be in good hands in the
next three and a half months."
Norquist was in office for
nearly 16 years and until Friday
was the nation's longest-serving
mayor in a city of more than
500,000.
Pratt will be acting mayor
until voters elect one in April. He
is among 1 7 people vying for the
job thai
Pratt
was filled
by the
same
man for
four
terms.
Pratt
will con
tinue to
serve as
council
president
but his
role as acting mayor will come
first, according to a city hall, ,
news release. ,
In 1987, Pratt won a special ;
election to become an alderman
and has been re-elected for four
terms. Before that, he had 15 .
years of city government serv
ice, working as a property
appraiser in the city assessor's, .
office, a library assistant with the ;
Milwaukee ^Public Library Sys
tem and an irHern in the office of.
then-Mayor Heh? W. Maier.
Norquist wouldKt say which ,
candidate he preferretCin the
April election, ^
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