i "Hi iGrn volrbest 4 4# # U 4 1 V # ADVERTISING MEDIA 1 V ■ ■ I • f 1 V T IN THE LUCRATIVE " ' A A JL \ f BLACK MARKET CALL 376-0496 ^he Voice Of The Black Community” ’ * ' V »•/* .' . . _ I THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, October 9, 1986 rgy:*..r i f■ £xM& *7*4*4 0k*4 /tn&ifo' 7ih*4* Okt 0^ Otae&Ufy Story On Page 16A I oug Stafford, president and If the Convention Bureau. “It In that it allows t or programs a portion of the City matching that amount with development-dedicated tax revenues Since this “50-50 fund” includes both promotion monies and development monies, grand recipients will be able to promote their events or programs as well as underwrite some of the operating expenses. There will be two periods for reviewing applications each year For fiscal year 198W7 the first application deadline is October 31, 1906, and the second is March 31, 19*7. Grants for the first period must be implemented no later than June 30, 19*7. For the second, the implementation deadline is Decem ber 31,19*7. The Charlotte Convention k Visit ors Bureau Underwriting Commit tee will administer the Grant Program. Organizations must submit a proposed budget with their grant applications. For more information and an application form, contact the Charlotte Convention k Visitors Bureau, One Independence Center, Suite 1290, Charlotte, NC 28236, attention Linda Bonine NUL Launches National Education Initiative vj Declaring that “the future econo mic survival of black Americans is dependent on improving the school ing our children get today,” John E. Jacob, President of the National Urban League, announced the launching of a five-year national education initiative designed to improve black educational per formance and involving the league’s 113 affiliates. Mr. Jacob asserted that despite increasing concern over the state of the nation’s public school systems and the implementation of various education reforms, the educational needs of black and minority children, for the most part, have been ignored. In addition, he maintained that some reform efforts may make these problems worse stating, “Stricter graduation require ments, without resources and pro grams to ensure that every child can meet them, may just raise the dropout rate faster than they raise the achievement rate.” Mr. Jacob cited a national black dropoyt rate almost double that of whites, the decline In black college enrollment and an overall lag in the black achievement levels, as evidence of the severity of the crisis. State that the black community has a major role to play in re sponding to this crisis, he said, “Our Education Initiative will mobilize 'he community to define key issues, maximize use of existing re sources, build coalitions and sup port for change, and implement concrete action plans.” Jacob added: “The importance of this Initiative is that it coordinates those activities, focuses them to have national impact, measures results, and provides a framework to make them more effective. “Our Initiative is not an exercise in confrontation, but, a program that mobilizes citizens and John E.Jacob ...Calls for action institutions in a collaborative effort to make the public schools work better for our children.’ The NUL's Education Initiatives will be implemented through its network of affiliates in 113 cities across the country, which includes school districts that educate two million hlack children • a third of all black students in the nation. Urban League affiliates, with support and technical assistance from the NUL. will develop pro grams targeted to ''at-risk'’ students and assist the community in devising concrete action plains to respond to their needs These achhR. plans will include several different elements including mentoring and •See National on page 2A Of Service Muhammed Honored For 40 Years Growing concern over the failure of blacks to start their own busi nesses and thereby economically develop the black community has now become a hot issue Studies have shown that only seven percent of the $22 billion collectively earned by blacks annually is spent with hlack businesses Statistics further indicate that the advent of integration brought the steady decline of expenditure of black GNP with black business In fact, from 1964-1964 the proportion of black incomes spent with black owned businesses dropped from 13.5 percent to only seven percent Therefore, black people have divert ed their economic resources away from the areas that are in need of the most help. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was one of the foremost proponents of black entrepreneurship in this century During his 40 years of service in the community, Muhammad inspired thousands of blacks to go into business, in addi tion to the hundreds of enterprises that hia follows initiated all over America and in the Caribbean Minister Louis Farrakhan, fol lowing in the footsteps of his mentor, is deeply concerned about the exploitation of the black com munity by external forcea. He has started a campaign to stimulate an upward spiral of business develop ment In the black comimaiity as initiated by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad Toward that goal. Minister Farrakhan has laimcfced a new line of personal care products. Clean N Fresh, the first of the Louis Farrakhan ..Started campaign promised POWER products In an effort to promote these products and the concept of Mack business development, Minister Farrkhan will be making several appearances across the country On October 7, one year from the historic Madison Square Garden appearance which attracted nearly 50.000, a major address was given in Chicago, IL, at the Pavilion located See Mohammed On pace !A