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Black Movies, TV News Briefs \ Rev. Jesse Jackson Upping "Tempo Of Resistance" Jesse H. Walker Special To The Poet When Dlahann Carroll last appeared on^the Johimy Car she once sang in Harlan's Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir and bow much she ad mired its paster, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. That's why the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Memorial Com mittee is trying to get her to show up on Wednesday, Nov. 29, when a Memorial honoring the late Congressman's 70th birthday will be heM in the Harlem State Office Building. Busy, busy Melba Moore, the "Big Blue Marble" npofcesperso·, flew into NYC iron Miami to play hostess to the SOSth performance of "aoth Century" at the Hlppopota m·, then to Baltimore Where she was 011 the dais for a luncheon for the President of CBS Records. Her "Melba" on Epic is going to bring her her first gold album and sba'U be singing Uto single smash, "Y«u Sieved Into My Lite" on a float in the Macy'e Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 23. Northern J. Calloway is starting hé· seventh season as David on "Sesame Street" on Nov. 27, while on the off season he's been busy deve loping new concepts for child rail's records. The first that be has written and produced, "Davkl's.Daydreaming On A Rainy Day? ' was released this fall. Another album produced by Calloway and Gavin Spen cer called "On The Street Where We Live-A Block Party," involves the "Sesame Street" cast; It also was released this fall. ' Tony Award nominee Mor gan Freeman and Hattie Win Rev. Jean Jackson . ...Civil rights Activist s ton, both of "The Electric Company" and both of whom got their start in Black off Broadway productions hosted this year's fth Annual AUDELCO Awartfe Ceremony which was held Monday night, Nov. 20, at the Symphony Theatre and honored black theatre performed off the mainstream. Many a fan was uptight at the cancellation of the Teddy Pendergrass concert at the Apollo Theatre on Nov.-12 and 13. Explanation was that hé got sick and doctor ordered him to bed. New scheduled concert of Nov. 21 and 22 (Thanksgiving Eve) didn'ts please everyone either. PUSH leader Rev. Jesse Jackson is upping the "Tempo of resistance" against the Rolling Stone·' "Some Girls" LP by launching a nationwide consumer and retailer boycott of all Rolling Stones products. A stronger reaction came last week, however, when the Nat ional Conference of Black Churchmen (NCBC) called for a nationwide boycott of Atlantic Records to protest the offensive lyrics an the tfem ' The NCBC is an argaataatiaa of some l.seo black aM»n and lay prisons Ranald B. Weston has left National Black Network, where be was vice pmkknt and director of sales for spot with WINS radio as an account executive. While the FCC reports that the meute* participation at , blacks and other minorities in stations is increasing, at least partly because of new govern ment policies, major new Gor emmerit-backed loan pro- ' gram, aimed at helping cBsad vantaged Americans bqy aoch stations has rhaïawleri fuods to only Dim meiiilwa of minority groups oat of its first S traasaettoos worth «?Λ million, acctlng to the SBA. What's more, the third largest loan went to Tom Tom Com munications o< Tom Bn*a,, host of the "Today " show on NBC. Disadvantaged? ANDY CLEANERS] W \ >W Η. * A a J Delores DRY CLEANING CI LAUNDRY* CHARLOTTE. U.C. mmm HMAM rUL4MM.0iey 2040 ν anAHAK tnvrr c*um.OTit. m c NfXT TONtf SOMUO lAM-IHfM Q«f SAT. IA M4XP M 1207 PAmwooc A Vf. Fhww 1*4-4 • A M ·9* M (My fMIAM4PH SAT lAMOf U s teacher Anda „ He s gen tenet/concerned about other people ' And he has expressed somen/that concern ri he partcf>atr>n v*th the . Manorial Fund for MmnntyEnqmeenng ' Students I The kmd a amr pnHnorganm· I Km atmmpbnq to mcmav thr> rxrrber of Blacks Pueno Hearts ChcanoK MencanAmencans and American Irrtarrs enroled m engmeennq schook These under represented mnontes constitute arch untapped resource to hep fit the qr&vtnq need for entpneers a need that is expected to continue through the md 1980s IBM s sooal leave program enabled Dr Hervy to take a year sleeve to asset the fund And IBM continued to pay hm he hj salary The National Fund for Mmnty Eogmmrng Students ts a mrywonh· »»*»i» program 1Λ* rfw* *> Lauchtard Henyihrksio But moat important d at tots c/ mnonty fnxjneonng students ι nultf«ea>ggOT<i/»MMi at&mr rha country thr* so IBM How Docs It ^ All Bcéin? f Where Will I® It All End? A FIVE PART SERIES BEGINNING , MONDAY. - » Action News \X> Weeknites 7and 11pm < ■ ■ · · i riilll : lllll ···" '
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