Faith leaders toraisSinds for UNCF
FAIRFAX, Va. - UNCF- the United Negro College Fund
the nation's oldest and most successful minority education
assistance organization, recently launched its National Faith
Campaign at a branch for faith leaders |
in los Angeles.
The Campaign aims to engage and
encourage the faith community to sup
port UNCF, minority students, and the
39 historically black colleges and uni
versities (HBCUs) that belong to UNCF,
and to build a robust network of
informed advocates for minopty educa
tion. UNCF expects the new Campaign
to raise $10 million by 2013.
The Faith Campaign's Advisory Rev. Flake
Council is chaired by Bishop Eddie
Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist in
Lithonia, Ga. The Council also includes the Rev. Dr. Michael
Battle, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center
in Atlanta, a UNCF member institution; Rev. Floyd Rake Sr..
Pastor of Allen AME Cathedral of New York and former pres
ident of UNCF member institution Wilberforce University;
Bishop Vashti McKenzie of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church's Thirteenth Episcopal District in Tennessee and
Kentucky; and Bishop Charles Blake of the West Angeles
Church of God in Christ of Los Angeles.
Lynching postcard sold in Duluth
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - A postcard featuring images of
the infamous 1920 Duluth lynching of three black circus work
ers has been sold at a Canal Park antique shop for $240.
The owner of the shop. Penny Seehus, says a customer
bought the postcard shortly after the shop opened at 11 a.m. on
Tuesday, Oct. 7. On the morning of Oct. 7, a story about the
postcard appeared in the Duluth News Tribune and the shop
took many calls asking if it was still available.
She didn't identify the customer, but she says he said he
grew up in Duluth.
The postcard was part of the private collection of Duluth
memorabilia that was put on sale after the collector died.
The U.S. Postal Service outlawed mailing postcards of
lynchings in 1908. but many were printed after that date and
kept as souvenirs.
University wins grant to
preserve black music heritage
Indiana University's Archives of African American Music,
and Culture will forever be part of a project to digitally pre
serve and make accessible nearly 300 hours of interviews with
rhythm and blues pioneers.
The project, named Pioneers of Rhythm and Blues, has
received a $39,230 grant
from the Grammy
Foundation, which is funded
by The Recording Academy.
It will utilize the best prac
tises and preservation meth
ods established by the IU
Archives of Traditional
Music during its NEH-fund
ed Sound Directions project.
The project provides an
aural documentation of the
history and development of
R&B music through the per
sonal narratives of promi
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Rufus Thomas dueling on "Do Charles. Ruth Brown and
the Funky Chicken" with a Bobby Byrd of James
chicken on stage. Brown's Famous Flames. It
also includes interviews
with composers, producers
and record company executives from the Atlantic, Stax.
Motown and Philadelphia International labels - many of
whom, including Jerry Wexler, are now deceased.
"Over the last five years, several of the pioneers and popu
larizes of various African American popular musical styles
have died. It's so important that we capture this legacy using
words of artists as much as possible," said Maultsby. also a co
author of the seminal text "African American Music: An
Introduction."
There generally is little primary source material in libraries
and music archives about the history of black popular music.
By digitizing the original recordings and preparing access
copies, the AAAMC seeks to preserve its unique interviews
with seminal figures in the music industry, while promoting
research into the rich legacy of African American musical tra
ditions and, more generally, the black experience in America.
Justice Department seeks to
mediate high school race dispute
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) - The U.S. Justice
Department is offering to mediate a dispute over allegations
that football players from a predominantly white high school in
Cumberland used racial slurs against a predominantly black
team from Washington.
Allegany County schools Superintendent William AuMiller
says the federal agency's Community Relations Service aims to
set up a meeting next week with athletic directors and head
coaches from Fort Hill and Dunbar high schools.
The effort follows Dunbar Coach Craig Jeffries' decision to
remove his team from the field in the third quarter of a game at
Fort Hill on Sept. 19. Jeffries said he feared the situation would
become violent.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Public Secondary Schools
Athletic Association is expected to finish its investigation with
in two weeks.
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Bishop and First Lady Jakes at their The Potter's House Church in Dallas.
Superstar preacher goes international
BY DONNA BRYSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
It's time for Americans to look
beyond their borders, superstar Texas
preacher T.D. Jakes said last Thursday
as he prepared to hold his trademark
Megafest outside the U.S. for the first
time.
The best-selling pastor of Dallas
megachurch The Potter's House is
throwing his signature event - part reli
gious festival, part self-help fair, part
gospel concert - at a convention center
near SoWeto this weekend.
Jakes debuted the event in Atlanta
in 2004 and has drawn hundreds of
thousands of people over the years.
He cited the global economic melt
down sparked by America's credit cri
sis and the Sept. 1 1 terror attacks as
examples of why Americans need to
pay more attention to the world and
their role in it.
"We can no longer live^in corners
and just care about ourselves," he told
The Associated Press. "Americans are
becoming increasingly global-minded.
If there were anything positive that
came out of 9-11, it's the realization
that we are our brothers' keepers."
Jakes has preached outside the U.S.
before, and South Africans at the press
conference Thursday quoted from his
books. But he's never taken on any
thing so ambitious as staging a
Megafest abroad. For the past year,
mnrp than ^00
people have
worked in the
U.S. and South
Africa to prepare
for the event, in
which he said his
church had
invested $7 mil
lion. Tickets were
selline for iust 25
tth",gu rand ($2.71), and
Jakes said he
hoped only to break even.
The U.S. has a tradition of superstar
preachers. Jakes is among the best
known of today's group, along with
Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church
in Lake Forest, California and Joel
Osteen of Lakewood Church in
Houston.
Their appeal is testament to the
power of two ideas: That spirituality
oan be a kind of self-help therapy, gnd
that churches can be more than places
to worship, but catalysts for communi
ty and political activism
When Jakes preaches that Jesus
died to make us free, and "we are not
truly free until we are economically
free," he sounds distinctly American.
But the sentiment is not foreign to
South Africa, where religious leaders
like retired Cape Town Archbishop
Desmond TutU helped lead the fight
against apartheid, and megachurches
are blooming in Johannesburg suburbs.
Nkanyiso Bhengu, a popular South
African actor, TV host and gospel
singer, says young preachers across
South Africa are copying Jakes'
approach and warm style after seeing
his DVDs. Bhengu listens to Jakes'
CDs when he's on the road with his
gospel group.
"He's very spiritual, but he under
stands the world that we live in,"
Bhengu said. "It makes Jesus tangible.
It makes God tangible."
Megafest participants will also be
able to get free AIDS tests and advice
on starting businesses. While he's been
in the region, Jake^ has biylt homes for
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N.C. NAACP Convention focuses on voting
BY CASH MICHAELS
CAROLINIAN NEWSPAPER
RALEIGH - With a
strong message of change
through "power, justice,
frteedom and the vote," the
65th Annual NAACP State
Convention in Raleigh last
weekend focused on mobi
lizing African-Americans
and other communities of
color and conscience to be
heard, and counted during
Jealous
this historic election year.
The convention also
focused on the civil rights
organization's dramatic
"Millions Voting March,"
nonpartisan get-out-the-vote
initiative, which kicks off
today across the state.
Last Friday at the North
Raleigh Hilton, the effort
got a big boost when
National NAACP
President/CEO Benjamin
Jealous - formerly the man
aging editor of the Jackson
Advocate, an African
American newspaper in
Jackson, Miss., and the for
mer executive director of the
National Newspaper
Publishers Association -
officially endorsed North
Carolina's "Millions Voting
March" during a press con
ference Oct. 10 with N.C.
NAACP President Rev.
William Barber. Jealous
later keynoted the conven
tion's Membership
Luncheon .
"I'm here today to sup
port what the [NC] state
conference is doing,"
Jealous, flanked by Rev.
Barber and as bevy of state
chapter presidents, told
reporters. "We hope that
North Carolina will be a
beacon to the rest of the
country."
Later, during his keynote
address at the membership
luncheon, the 35-year-old
Jealous - the youngest leader
of the NAACP in its history
- told some of the more than
1,000 attendees that regard
less of who wins the White
House, "The only thing
you'll hear from this nation
al [NAACP] office, loud and
clear, over and over and over
again, is take care of Main
Street, take care of the back
streets, [and] justice for reg
ular people."
Actor/activist Danny
Glover, star of films such as
the "Lethal Weapon" series
and "The Color Purple," said
during hiis keynote address
at the invention's Freedom
Fund Banquet Saturday
night that while voting for
right leadership was indeed
important, African
American and other commu
nities of color must follow
that up with "action."
"We must engage our
selves by action; not simply
voting, but being involved in
the body politics," Glover
said.
Other noted speakers
included Hilary Shelton,
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