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VOL. XIX, No. 12
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Malcolm X; Source of Pride And Dollars, Source of Scorn
? Black Newspaper Publishers Irate Over
What They Term 'Hollywood Racism'
BY MARK R. MOSS
Special to the Chronicle
A disproportionate amount of
advertising dollars spent to advertise
Spike Lee's movie, Malcolm Xy
went to the white media ? leaving
a lot of black publishers with less
than full pockets, they charge.
Further, these publishers voiced
wonder if such treatment is another
example of Hollywood racism.
"It is certainly an insult that
those in the African -American press
who have supported this movie are
not reaping some of the revenue
from advertising it," said Robert
Bogle, president of the Philadelphia
Tribune, one of the largest African -
American newspapers in the coun
try. Bogle is also president of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association, (NNPA), a black trade
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group.
, Exactly how much money
Warner Brothers, the film's distribu
tor, spent on advertising is confiden
tial.
Rick Kallet, vice president of
coop advertising at Warner, said the
company has a policy of not disclos
ing such figures.
However, Kallet said that the
advertising budget for Malcolm X
"was in line with other big-budget
movies/*
Bogle said that at the NNPA
convention in June, Lee promised
publishers that they would get their
fair share of advertising dollars.
But only 20 markets were tar
geted, which meant a considerable
number of the 205 black newspapers
in the country were left out, Bogle
said.
"My interpretation of Lee's
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Muslim leader Malcom X poses in this 1964 portrait "There's all tort of
interesting lessons about the entire African-American experience that
can be learned through Malcolm's life says Robert Franklin of Emory ?
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Former Panther Seek Status
Of Non-Profit For Funding
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A Stalking Success In Urban Jungle
John Moan (L) and Robert Gner organist self-help programs in black
communities.
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Twd former Black Panthers, John
Moore and Robert Greer, are seeking non
profit status and funding for their citizen's
self-help group, Black Men And Women
Against Crime.
"Power to the people!" was the favorite
chant of the '60s and '70s, when Black Pan
thers were associated with black armbands,
black berets and sometimes machine guns.
They were also known and feared for their
ability to organize people around a cause
and lead them to action.
In 1990, Greer and Moore started the
group, which is comprised of about IS peo
ple who volunteer their time organizing
members of the black community to reduce
crime in their area. They have formed tenant
Pleas* set page A3
Author Profiles Struggle Of South African Women
? Ngcobo Says Apartheid
Was Built On Their Backs
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Aitimnt Editor
South African novelist Lauretta Ngcobo (pro
nounced "incobo") writes about one of the most diffi
cult struggles in the world: the life of black women
under apartheid.
Ngcobo grew up in South Africa, went into exile
after the political upheavals of the '60s, and has lived in
London ever since.
But the political and social war waged against
South African women has changed very little in the
20th century. Ngcobo tells that story in her second
book, And They Didn't Die.
Ngcobo speaks with a voice that is strong and
clear, much like her writing. She came to Wake Forest
Lauretta Ngcobo
University earlier this week to address classes in
women's studies and black litefathre.
She speaks passionately abodt the struggle of black
women under apartheid, sometimes leaning forward to
speak more intimately, slapping one hand inside the
other together or rapping her finger on the table in front
of her to make a point
There is a rock-solid wisdom in her face, and a
fiery intensity in her eyes.
"Black women became the rock upon which
apartheid was built,** she professes.
Rural women are expected to relinquish their sons
when they are old enough to work in the city (at age
16), run the community in the absence of their hus
bands and sons who are allowed to come home for only
two weeks each year, then care for the men when they
reach their 70s and are sent home for good.
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Larry A. Still
The first black congressional leadership institute in
the history of the U.S. Congress was developed specifi
cally for African-American members at three days of
sessions in Atlanta during the past week with most of
the 17 record-breaking new legislators in attendance.
Since 13 of the members represent newly estab
lished Southern districts, the emphasis may shift from
an urban affairs agenda to other legislation, some mem
bers suggested.
The recent elections ushered in a new era of black
leadership with the largest single increase of African
American members of Congress since the founding of
New CBC Members May Change Black Agenda
the nation, said officials of the Congressional Black
Caucus Foundation, which sponsored the institute.
In January, the CBC membership will increase
from 26 to a record 40 members, and Senator-elect
Carol Mosley Braun, D-Ill, has agreed to join the
House of Representative group in strategy sessions,
CBC officials announced.
The Black Congressional Leadership Institute was
one of three orientation sessions scheduled for all new
members of Congress in Atlanta, Chicago, and Los
Angeles. But the CBC members were invited to con
vene in the Georgia capital. The CBC is one of many
specialized interest groups organized in Congress on
the basis of geography, economic interests, legislative
goals, culture or ethnicity (Polish Caucus, Hispanic.
Caucus, etc.)- The increasing number of women elected .
in recent years has led to the proposed establishment of
a Women's Caucus in Congress.
The objectives of the foundation *rirnstitute,
announced Rep. Alan Wheat, D-Mo., who served as
chairman, were to: Acquaint members-elect with spe
cial support services and resources available to CBC
members; discuss solutions to the special issues and
problems that "freshmen" members are likely to con
front; and identify the most critical issues facing black
America that will be given top priority by the CBC dur
ing the 103rd Congress starting in January.
Phase iff page A2
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