Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / April 24, 1989, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
: i i iUii i ■/v&fci HOMELESS (Continued fam page l> r “The npoaH of Congress has been to fund emergency nwNM that accommodate but dig hot eliminate homoleasaccs. Mnia, nek aa the McKinney Act, old fa needy but do not addroae the root cauae of a serious mh«i«i problem; the ihw* tape of affordable housing. “Congrw bidet beldiid Ike budget deficit when it —mm to housing our people, even aa It flnda the hundreda of billions of dollara needed for othar mHmui problena, auch aa bailing out the savings and loam and clean ing up nuclear waata “Aa a compaaaionate and unsen* ed people, wo muat bring to govern meat an emphatic meaaage to reverie the housing criaia. "In mid-September, pilgrimages will leave New York City, Roamhe, and the weet coast making fair way to Waahington, D.C. There, on Thure day, Oct. 5, marcher* will aottle In campa around fa city. “On Thursday and Friday (Oct. 5-6), they will Join with many others to visit Confess and rvpraaa to elected officials the concern that have brought them from all afouad the nation. “Then, on Saturday, Oct 7, at neon, we will come togcfag at fa UK. Capitol in Waihfafrm, P C., to rain one voice with one message for fa restoration of housing. funds to fa federal budget: “End the threat and the terrible reality of homoMoamos now through the creation of safe, do cent affordable homes for all our people.’* .; (Continued from page 1) which also confirmed stuck* on civilians in the northamNtfoil. The CCN reported that at'lii* * civilians were kSOed /by"«^' Africans in three t They also stated that coning from a SWAPO rally were ambushed by white men wielding machine nine. NAMPA stated that 8WA*0 supporters and family special targets of attack. At the i conference here, copies of an article from the April n Namibian newspaper stated that a “hit list” has been devised by South Africa's special counterinsui Koevoet. These units throughout the feared they the local forces are peacekeepers. 1) TB IlMNfc, «my of a the (int Mack aver elected to I’ve Tvo tried to let people poo that I'm theaamepanaolwaa/’beaald'My |_ iif-^i^. |mi Itoolf HB9W 41 ▼4!^W4i ■pWB4a IWT IwWi on’t avan know my Ito '• ettv’eWMte ■ WPP WOTW* la tha UMa aad elected a Council in what and avantually advocacy of a state holiday to kaka Ha hav. Martin UMhar King, Jr. Newspaper dipt tnm tin wrtad show Wilder with an AITe hairstyle, Ida Capo caatartad in Aid Jo mainstream, Wilder 'P9*,y" k. . He , died an anti-drug langMala bill ha fww"1* in an, ihajraar altar ha antarad the gaunt* He also supported felony Jacent imeMHM Correctional Contnr at I pjn. t|wwday, May 4. off several days of acttvitioe at the aow prtoon, iaiilniing a mooting of the North Carolina Bawd of Come UooaadawoofcaMt “open houae” for g the dad teat ion Go*. Martin will accotn rotary Johnson and March 8th Chosen As Worldwide Woman's Day WASHINGTON, D.C.-Women front around the world chose March 8 as International Women’s Day to honor Angie Brooks of Liberia, former president of the United Nations General Assembly. This September will mark the 20th anniversary of the election of Ms. Brooks. Only one other woman (the late Ms. Pandit of India) served in this position. To honor this historic occasion, women’s organizations, non governmental organizations, international civil servants and individuals from a wide spectrum of international groups, joined in a steering committee to plan ways of celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman. On March 8, women in the three United Nations headquarters announced the bundling of an Angie Brooks Fund for the Promotion of Women Leaders. The fund will be used to sponsor women from developing countries to participate in training opportunities, workshops and seminars that promote women as leaders at the national and international levels. The idea to launch an Angie Brooks Fund to promote women as leaders at the international level was a response to a finding of the UN Decade for Women that “all too few women were found to be in policymaking positions worldwide.” The fund’s objective will be to help train emerging groups of leaders and policymakers today and in the future. A trailblazer since age U, Angie Brooks was born in Montserrado County, Liberia in 1828. She was the first woman and African to serve as president of the UN Trusteeship Council, and the first practicing woman lawyer in Liberia. In addition to her many assignments with her government, Ms. Brooks has played an active role internationally. She has been decorated by at least a dozen governments in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. In addition to her doctorate of law degree, she has received honorary degrees from 38 universities, including Lincoln, Howard, Brandeis, Northwestern and Rutgers. A mother herself, she has fostersd and given education to more than 100 children from various parts of Africa. The story needs to be toid of this black woman who, in 1900, presided over the UN General Assembly. Her story is about eoumge, determination, and frustration. But the story also carries a message of hope to all those in very high places who are called upon to break down the hidden and not-so-hidden barriers of sexisnt and racism. The idea to honor Ms. Brooks was initiated by a group of Africans and African-American women who aee in Ms. Brooks a symbol of woman’s achievement in the political field. Honoring Ms. Brooks is to them a way to honor those women leaders who, too often are forgotten. Her Excellency Dame Ntta Barrow, ambassador of Barbados to the United Nations, chairs the Angie Brooks Fund Steering Committee. Others on the committee Include black women leaders from the United States, Africa and elsewhere. American women’s organisations interested in sponsoring or participating in the activities, and those wishing more information, should write to the Angie Braoks Committee Secretariat, c/o NGO Committee for the UN Decade of Women, 777 United Motions Plasa, New York, N Y. 10017. Sponsorship consists of organising seminars, conferences, exhibitions, etc., on African women through September 1000 as well as participation in the formal ceremony honoring Ms. Brooks and her lifetime of outstanding service to the world. The awards ceremony takes place during the 44th session of the United Nations General Assembly. 2,000Expected At New Orleans Stack Summit • • ' ‘ • . -V . \K- S; NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode and activist Angela Davis are among 2,000 people who were ex pected this weekend for the biggest gathering of black leaders in .more than a decade, organizers said last “This is a historic conference. It br ings together political, sociological, religious and philosophical groups of all kinds,” said Delores Tucker, chairperson of the Democratic Na tional Committee Black Caucus and one of the organizers of African American Summit ’89. Unlike the National Black Leader ship Conferences at Gary, Ind., Little Rock, and Richmond, Va., in the IIVOs, she siad, the meeting April H-S3 looked at a wide range of issues. “This meeting is not focused only on a politics! «g*«**» or any single agsnds such as economic or social,” she said. “It will look inward as well as outward.” And it is organised to make sure ♦hat state delegations include more members of grassroots groups than elected officials, said Ms. Tucker and Ramona Edalin, program chairper son and president of the National Ur ban Coalition. “This is not a leadership group that looks at massive problems and does nothing about it,” said Ms. Edelin. Subjects to be discussed at the meeting included polittcnl options; political empowerment; media; The opening session will preserving and advancing black families. “We intend to, reclaim our children,” said Ms.EdeUa.‘‘We do not intend to be a leadenfcip class that looks at the problems of children and does nothing.” She and Ms. Tucker said jarqpMala for a black stock exchange and a black political party were likely to come up. Louis Farrakhan had not indicated at press time whether ho would at tend. National Black Republican Chairman Fred Black had aaid that he gnd other Republicans, would not, participate If Farrakhan. Parts or Stokely Carmichael are Included because of thoir “history of either violent or bigoted behavK*."/: Ms. Tucker said RopublicnukfNm other groups have said thky Will at tend regardless of Farrakhan’s ‘This is can come E*W«" Dexter lock Co. To Recall No __...therbis'aCikrtoou ■trip called “Little Mias Roberta” drawn by Pretda Blackmah. In one aerlaa. two woman SCO walkingdown^ -_ter uys, "AU the nowadays: are all married the I’m not.! Just want end good, guy-’’ and before she can _ihdt MntancM. swoooinf down out of the sky is a good, boAet guy. A handsome; powerfully built black g£jsr.sr4sx ” Hello, beautiful,"' he says to Mhrie. v. Sbe keeps walking. “DM you see the way he Just plopped down hefe? Probably don't EVEN have a car.” Nor Mood agrees. “Where does he expect, to get a Job with a suit like thatt^-'-r : TRASH IT: Along the Nile River at a place called Glsa, the blacks of an dante Africabuilttbe monument known as the Gnat Pyramids of Khufd, thousands of years before the Christian era. It stood taller than a ti-atory building, was made of 2.3 million blocks of standstone, and is recognised as one of the great wonoors ok hm wotki. Today hi New York City, another huge pyramid is being built It is located on Staten Island, and it is made totally of trash.' Vee,-Ma|y<SNew_Yyrk, unable tar ngure what to do with so many empty hflWoe,burger wrappers, old typewriters Ondfiat tires. Is making a monument out of them, reports a New .York newspaper. When this modern , pyramid is completed in the year 2006, it will stand S4 feet higher than the ancient pyramid at Gisa. On a •clear day, you will be able to see this 'pyramid from miles around, and , smell it downwind even farther. i MISMATCH: White folks general ly, Including a majority of the Supreme Court, think affirmative ac tion programs go too far. Black folks •think they don’t go far enough. Com mentator Andrew Ward suggests this as the best way to understand the issue: The White Team and the Black Team are playing the last football game of the season. The White Team owns the stadium, owns the referees and has been allowed to field nine times as many players. For almost four quarters, the white team has cheated on every play and, as a consequence, the score is White Teem 140, Black Team S. Only 10 seconds remain in the game, but as the white quarterback huddles with his team before the final play, a light suddenly shines from his eyes. “So how about it, boys?” he asks his men. “What do you say from here on we play fair?” FOE THE RECORD: Sometimes, to get a print across, it is best not to preach to people. Sometimes telling a 1 story can make the point better than ' a lecture. The technique is as rid as Aesop’s fables and as new as a rap or as persona] as a fictitious letter from - one “friend” to another. I used the fictional letter technique in my recent column on “Brewster Place.” Ms. Dorothy Retford Guest Speakers For Public Forum The African-American Studies Committee of the Raleigh Historic • PwpnOw Combi talon will hoM i public forum with guest speaker Dorothy Redford. Ms. Radford, author of “Somerset Homecoming,” win discuss the useef oral histories ta conducting historic research. The forum It free and wfll be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 27, in the Fine Arts amphitheater at 8t. Augustine’s College. ' Inspired by Alex Haley’s “Roots.” Ms. Redford’s research into her own family origins led to the now-historic reunion that brought mere than 2,000 descendants of Somerset Plantation slaves together for a reunion. She Is also director of Somerset Place, the plantation on which her ancestors lived and which is now a North Carolina Iristtrle tile. The public fSrwm willeouclade this phase of “Raleigh’s Roots: An Oral Hlstery of Raleigh’s African-American Commnnities.” This prelect of recording oral histories from residents of Raleigh’s Motoric African-American neighborhoods was sponsored by the Historic Properties Commission and funded by the North Humanities Council and the dty of Raleigh. The oral will be added to aa architectural survey of the i now beiag conducted by the Historic Properties Cem Anyouo wtaiag mere Information about the forum should contact Project Director Torri Myers, 00-1070. life In Indianapolis Ind. . . v v of Lawrence Township Schools; Mike Higbee, director of the Department of Metropolitan Development for the ci ty; Bob Beckmann, chairman of the board for the Arts Council; Carol W. Collins, executive director of the Commission for Downtown; William McGowan, president of the Conven tion and Visitors Association; and Thomas A. King, president of the In dianapolis Chamber of Commerce. ‘'The visit will be a learning ex perience—a chance to exchange .strategies,” said Marc Jordan, presi dent and chief executive officer of the Raleigh chamber. “What we hope to leave with are creative ideas to fur ther strengthen public/private part l—"—vnl*r Ok ha me. iM Ml Mam AMI *4. «■ MR Ihhbk ht W1I. mhm ALTY
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 24, 1989, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75