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lUrban League -
: Honors
l Kat Crosby
l Chariot te-Medden burg educator
t Kat Croaby has been named the first
, woman recipient of the Charkrtte
Mecklenburg Urban League’s
• Community Service Award.
Crosby, who retires at the end of
this school year after a 40-year
career In education, will be present
ed the prestigious award at the
Urban Laague’s Fourth Annual
Equal Opportunity Day Awards
Dinner oo January 9 at the Marriott
Hotel In Uptown Charlotte.
The theme for the Awards Dilner
is “Working Together to Make A
Difference,” and the presentation
’ is made to persona out
standing contributions to the
Char lot to-Mecklenburg community
in employment, bowing, health,
J education,' and human services. •
CTosby is being cited far her years of
' service in education. - X
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The Equal Opportunity Day
Award Is the League's highest
honor The ^name of the award
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end now staff dfroetor of the NAACP
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Confab Closes
With New
Leadership
..Washington. DC - The National
Black Caucus of State Legislators
(NBCSL) concluded its 10th Annual
Conference recently with the
election of a new leadership struc
ture headed by Rep. David P.
Richardson Jr. (Pa.) and a series of
keynote presentations. NBCSL’s re
tiring president, state Senator
Clarence M. Mitchell III (Md.), was
named executive director following
seven years at the organization’s
helm.
Having adopted saving the black
child as its conference theme, legis-'
lators further welcomed the }n
sights of three area experts - D.C.
Superintendent of Schools Floretta'
Dukes McKenzie, University of, .
Maryland basketball coach Bob ‘
Wade and former Bullets basket
ball star Phil Chenir, now with the
Boys & Girls Club of Greater
Washington.
Throughout the seven-day con
ference, legislators from across the
country, representing 28 million
Americans, heard repeated calls for
public and legislative expression on
the issues adversely affecting black
America.
With respect to unemployment,
retiring U.S. Rep Mitdfell asserted
that blacks have been “strangely
silent.” “A generation ago, w«^
would have.marched in protest of so
unemployment rate that is twjce'fhe
rate of whites,” he said ,"We have.,
watched as millions of dollars ’are
poured ^nto downtown areas fbr .
their renaissance, but there Is no
renaissance for our children.”
Congressman RangeU whp
keynoted the opening ceremonies,',
strongly criticized the Reagan
administration’s drug prevention
efforts which he described as a
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programs to address the cenUfel
issues related to drug abuse,
Rangel suggested that additional
funding be targeted to attacks on
major drug suppliers and their
operatives.
as legislators rocuseo on iauor
issues, William Wynn, international
president of the United Food and
Commercial Workers Internatioiud
Union, told the audience that/*
itabmTy~6f' biadk families is in
trinsically linked to the protection of
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Ctehohn confided to a
audience, "You'll hear
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