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Detroit deals with homeless
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adniiiUHtration is puttinj?.
t/jjfether a plan to avert mUr-. •
takes made in otlier citi».^’
wliere honui^less people were.’
arrestwl at the Super Bowi '
I)r Calvin TVent, head crf'llie
city’s bm^au of substance
alnise treatment and'recov-
ery. leads the team cateiing to
the homeless cioring the
Sujjer Bowl
'Wlat has happened in the
past in other cities wliere the
Super Bowl took place is that
there were negative conse
quences for people who were
licaneless or where there are a
lot of poor people,” TVent said.
“We are concerned that we
don’t cause any negative
effects cai the homeless and
those with mental chal
lenges.”
TVent said Detroit will avcsd
iuiything like the indd^t in
Jacksonville, Ha. that led to
some lawsuits against that
city last year.
Acccading to an Associated
Press report three homeless
men in Jacksonville —
Michael Robert Johnson,
Christopher Lee Nelson and
Thomas Worley- were arrest
ed in 2004 on chaises of
drinking in a public park.
TVeaty Oak Park, where
they were arrested, had been
designated a party zone
before the Feb. 6, 2005 event
Assistant Public Defender
Tjia* McKinney argued in
court that if “the rich, power
ful and famous can drink in
the park in the weeks before
the Super Bowl, why cant the
homeless do it now?”
The pajk was inside a 21/2-
mile entertainment zone.
Laws against open amtain-
ers, noise pollution and out
door alcohol sales were sus
pended for 18 days before the
Super Bowl, the Associated
Press reported.
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Coretta King stood alone with Martin’s Dream
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Coi-etta Scott Kijig was
more* than Dr King’s wuk)w.
“Ixxig Ijefore she met and
nuuried Marlin Lutlier King
Jr, sire was an activistRep
J(hn Lewis (D-Ga ), former
chairman of the Atlanta-
based Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Conmiittee,
said in an interview on CNN
In lier autobiography, “My
Life with Marlin Luther
King, .Jr,” she spoke of lier
own humble backgroxmd
growing up in Marion, Ala.
“They made it illegal for
blacks and wliites to eat
trjgether in public; to sit
U)getlier in theaters, buses or
trains, to use the same com
fort stations or water foun
tains. even to enter public
buildings by tlie same door. It
was as tlrougli tire blacks had
some contagious disease,”
She continued, “And yet, we
worked in tlieir houses, jrre-
parel tlieir food, nurtmed
tlieir children, and were inti
mately associated with them
in every domestic way The
whole idea was to impress
U{X)n the black people that we
were an inferior race; to
reduce us, not to slavery
again, but to being less than
men.”
Tb re-enforce that message,
she said; “African Americans,
no matter what positions or
how much education they
had. were never called ‘mis
ter’ CH" any other title. They
were addressed as hoy or
‘giri’ even if they were old and
gray They were supposed to
say, Tes, sir,’ and Tes, ma’am’
- even to teenage whites. It
was all deliberately aimed at
instilling the slave mentality
in our people.”
The Scott family tried to
insulate Coretta from further
indignities by sending her to
Antiodi College, a small, lib
eral institution in Yellow
Springs, Ohio, where she
eaiTied a bachelor’s degree in
music and education.
With an emphasis on voice,
she enrolled in Boston’s New
England Conservatory of
Music. It was in Boston that
she met a young Martin
Luther King, who was study
ing for his doctorate in theolo
gy at Boston Univa^ty
Coretta Scott King mardied
with her husband in
Birmingham, Ala. and other
hot spots, but yearned for a
larger role in the movanent.
She actively supported the
movement, her husband and
took care of their kids at the
same time.
‘Tve had the good opportu
nity to get to know the chil
dren over the years, and I
have seen the time that they
have spent with their moth
er,” US. Sen. Edward
Kennedy said on ABC-TVs
“Good Morning America.”
“The mother was not only a
powerful and charismatic fig
ure and leader for our time,
but she helped those children
grow up to be individuals
with a sense of dignity, a
sense of pride in their her
itage, and their strong com
mitment to do something for
someone else. I admire her for
that, as well.”
Myrlie Evers Williams,
whose husband, Medgar, was
assassinated in Mississippi,
understands the burden
Coretta King carried.
“She and I, along with Betty
Shabazz, were members of a
club that no one wants to join
- the ‘widow of’
“We shared the challenges
of raising our children with
out their fath^; we shared
the challenges of bearing our
husbands’ legacies with digni
ty we shared the chall^iges of
the ever-shifting civil rights
movement. And, through it
all, she maintained her gra
ciousness while impacting the
world’s politics with her
strength and sophisticated
influence.”
Mall site for African American history museum
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tion’s National Museiun of
the Aiuerican Indian, also
located on the mall.
“It will tell tlie stories of
African-American cultui*e
fit)m slavery through civil
rights,” said Lonnie G.
Himcfi, the museimi’s dii'ec-
tor
Officials hope to select a
design firm and complete
construction in less than a
dec'ade. Tlie federal govern
ment is exjiected to cover
half tlie cost, which could top
$400 million, with the bal
ance piovideci thiough pri
vate sources and public
donations.
Roger W. Sant, chainuan
of the regents’ executive
committee, dted llie impor
tance of the Nat ional Mall in
tlie liistory of all Americans
in the decision to locate the
museiun close to one of the
nation’s most recognizable
symbols. He promised that
the design would be sensi
tive to the location.
President George W. Bush
signed legislation in 2003
calling for selection of a site
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