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Writer Maya Angelou sautes some onions and peppers in
the kitchen of the Sugar Bar restaurant Monday, Sept. 29,
in New York, where she spent the day cooking a meal as
a guest chef for a benefit dinner later in the evening.
Proceeds from the five-course dinner she prepared were
to be donated to the Betty Shabazz Foundation.
Mfume speaks at AFL-CIO convention
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AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh Wednesday, Sept. 24.
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President and Mrs. Clinton present jazz vocalist Berry
Carter of Brooklyn, N.Y., with a 1997 National Medal of
Arts award, Monday, Sept. 29, during a ceremony on the
South Lawn of the White House.
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BOMBAY, India (AP) ? Black and white pho- .
tographs of India's independence struggle framed in
Mohandas Gandhi's home in Bombay reminded former
U.S. General Colin Powell, of the civil rights protests in
his country.
Powell, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff during the Persian Gulf war, spent more than one
hour in a building where Gandhi lived from 1917 to 1934.
"As a 10-year-old in New York city, a brown boy, I
watched this great man show the world what leadership
was all about," Powell told Usha Mehta, who had partic
ipated in Gandhi's movement that led to India's indepen
dence in 1947. Powell was on a two-day visit to Bombay
to address business executives.
"Gandhi's nonviolent struggle was picked up by
Martin Luther in my own country. His inspiration is sim
ply indispensable to all Americans, especially African
Americans," Powell said.
Powell was greeted at the building by two freedom
fighters with a garland made from the homespun cotton
that Gandhi made popular. The late leader asked Indians
to spin and wear the cotton as a sign of defiance of
British colonialism.
(AP Photo/She?win Cros*o)
Former chairman of tho Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States General Colin
Powell, right, is greeted by women from a slum colony in Bombay, Monday, Sept.
29. Powell Is on a two-day visit to extend his support to NOO's working for the
upliftment of poor people.
FARRAKHAN
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Farrakhan said that no money
should be spent. No one should
work or play, and the Day of
Atonement should be a time of
reconciliation among family
members with visitation to
churches, mosques, temples or
other houses of worship.
Farrakhan also requested that
all pastors preach a sermon on
atonement, reconciliation and
responsibility on Sunday, Oct. 12,
in preparation for the holy day.
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For ministers of the Nation of
Islam and others, Farrakhan has
asked them to encourage the
atonement process by holding an
afternoon rally during which
youth from each racial group can
address their elders.
"I am warning America, we
are either going to come back to
God and repent, or God will
destroy America as he did those
before her and left them as a sign
so that America might be guided
and warned by their failure to
accept guidance and warning
attacks and repent," Farrakhan
said, adding that he is not wor
ried about critics' opinion of the
Holy Day of Atonement.
"Even if we don't do all that
we intended to do or desire to do,
we've made a start," he said.
"When we called for a million
men to be in Washington, God
helped to make it a reality, and all
the naysayers who said it couldn't
happen were there, and they saw
it happen."
Meanwhile, during
Farrakhan's current 90-city
Million Man March revival tour,
a death threat was made against
the minister in Indianapolis by a
37-year-old man. Ronald A.
Dearmin was arrested and
charged with possession of
cocaine, and police confiscated a
cache of weapons, explosives and
ammunition.
"1 am waiting to see what
Indianapolis does," Farrakhan
said. "The man is out on $1,500
bond. I don't understand that,
but we'll watch and see. But I
would say to America, 'be very
careful how you handle me. If I
am from God and you plot
against my life, that will quicken
the destruction of America."*
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HOMESTEAD
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entered a verbal agreement in
April 1996 to purchase and rent
out two limousines, a 1988
Lincoln Town Car and a 1990
Lincoln Town Car Double Super
Stretch. The nonprofit put up the
money, and Bledsoe stored and
rented the vehicles.
The agreement provided that
60 percent of the profits generated
from the cars would go to Project
Homestead, and allowed Project
Homestead use of the cars so long
as no profits were generated.
Bledsoe said that Lawson, who
drove for both himself and Project
Homestead, had entered an agree
ment with King. The 1988 and
1990 limos were advertised in the
Yellow Pages under a' company
separate from Bledsoe's business;
Lawson was listed as the contact
name for the advertisement.
Now Bledsoe and Lawson are
fighting over an arrangement
involving a 1995 Mercedes limou
sine.
If Project Homestead backed
Lawson's $86,000 claim and deliv
ery bond, no public money was
used to do so, said city housing
director Andy Scott. But the valid
ity of the bond may still be in
question.
As a nonprofit. Project
Homestead has no assets that
could be used to back a bond
issued for a third party.
King denied last week that he
signed for a claim and delivery
bond to back Lawson's limousine,
or that Lawson is his a business
partner. King did not mention if
the bond was going to be used for
housing contracts. He is out of the
office on vacation this week.
Gabrielle Beard, planning and
development coordinator for
Project Homestead, called the sit-1
uation "a misunderstanding." She *.
added that she was not familiar
with the arrangement or court
case between Bledsoe and King.
Bledsoe turned over the
Mercedes to the Greensboro :
Police Department on Monday,
but not before staging a one-man
protest. He covered the limousine
with signs and parked in front of
Project Homestead's office on
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The signs accused the nonprof
it of gambling with public or pri
vately donated money to back the
bond.
UNITY
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the maximum opportunity to
realize the potential that is theirs,"
Roberts said. He said the nine were
united in their support for integrat
ed schools.
"In t.iis national dialogue about
the importance of whether desegre
gation was still important, the Little
Rock Nine stand firmly committed
to the desegregation of schools," he
said. Clinton said there were too
many other challenges facing
Americans than having to consider
racial issues.
"What we owe the Little Rock
Nine is to do our part in this time ...
to make sure that at least our kids
have something else to worry
about," he said.
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