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August 15, 1996
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Dick Gregory asks for probe
into sons’ beatings by cops
Comedian/humanitarian Dick Gregory is calling on the U.S.
Justiee Department toinvestigate the July 11 beating and arrests of
their sons Johance Maqubela, 22, a New York City Council financial
analyst, and Gregory, 29, according to the Chicago Defender. The
two were beaten during the melee that erupted at Madison Square
Garden last month. Maqubela said he was jumped and beaten by a
peliceman who overheard him talking to a co-worker about the delay
in police reaction to the rioting. Mr. Gregory has written letters to
U.S. Attorney Janet Reno and President Bill Clinton demanding an
investigation into the alleged civil rights violations his sons suf
fered.
Labelle’s club closes doors
Chez Laßelle, singer Patti Laßelle’s Philadelphia club/restaurant
closed its doors July 15 after PAZ, Inc., the management company
owned by Laßelle and her husband Armstead Edwards failed to
reach a new lease agreement with location owner Michael diPaolo,
reports the Philadelphia Tribune. A spokesman for diPaolo’s com
pany, New Market Square, said Edwards and diPaolo chose to part
amicably and the decision to close the establishment was a business
one.
Black Dems say vote
will not be taken for granted
Many black leaders are now seeking to put “checks and balances”
on Democratic Party members to make them more responsible for
issues, legislation and policies concerning blacks and other minori
ties, according to the Michigan Chronicle. Black leaders started
outlining intense political agenda at the Million Man March, and
march organizers hosted the National Hearing on Issues and Public
Policy, July 26-27, 1996, at Chicago’s Kennedy/King College to put
together a “progressive” political agenda inclusive of Native Ameri
cans, Hispanics, Arab Americans and African Americans.
Race purity is goal of sperm bank
From page one
sperm bank rejects gay donors.
“We ask in our questionnaire,
‘Are you a homosexual? ” Vaux
said. “If they say ‘yes,’ we
wouldn’t want them to be do
nors. It may be a hereditary
thing.”
None of the current donors is
from the Pacific Northwest, Vaux
said. She said she scans scien
tific journals, newspapers and
magazines for “intelligent” pro
spective donors before writing
them a solicitation letter.
“They are engineers, attor
neys, farmers, all sorts of people,”
she said. “Just about all nation
Sporadic violence follows
shooting at anti-gang protest
By Alexandra Zavis
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Gang members clashed with
anti-gang vigilantes overnight in
crime-infested, impoverished
parts of Cape Town following an
earlier anti-gang protest that
ended in a fatal gunfight.
There were numerous reports
of shootings today as members of
thevigilante group People Against
Gangsterism and Drugs roamed
their neighborhoods hunting
down gang members. It was not
immediately clear whether any
one was injured or killed.
Violence first broke out Sunday
afternoon, when gang members
and vigilantes exchanged fire af
terarally by People Against Gang
Black Baltimore policemen
allege racial bias on the force
BALTIMORE
(AP) Black officers in the Bal
timore police department are far
more likely than white officers to
be fired or severely disciplined
for misconduct, according to a
group of current and former of
ficers.
The allegations brought before
the City Council follow a recent
report by Donald Reid, a police
officer who took it upon himself
to study the disciplinary process
for the past decade. He concluded
that, of the 139 officers fired since
1985, 99 were black and 37 were
white.
The CSRA Classic is coming!
AUGUSTA FOCUS
alities, but no black people, be
cause that wouldn’t be the best
thing to do, collect black sperm
and mix it with white sperm.”
After completing lengthy ques
tionnaires and physical exams,
donors ship their sperm in spe
cial liquid nitrogen containers
to Spokane.
Vaux said the foundation’s
brand of racial purity is differ
ent from that promoted by the
Aryan Nations, a white suprema
cist organization based in
Hayden Lake, Idaho.
“We’re not like them at all,”
she said.
Evenifthe sperm bank started
accepting sperm from black men,
it would not be stored in the
sterism and Drugs.
Police, backed by soldiers, fired
tear gas, stun grenades and rub
ber bullets in an attempt to break
up the fight, but the two sides
dispersed only after a clergyman
pleaded with members of the vigi
lante group to go to their mosque
and pray.
Both the gangs and the vigi
lante group are made up largely of
Muslims, whoare concentrated in
some of Cape Town’s poorest
neighborhoods—aresult ofapart
heid.
Gangs there have existed for
decades, attracting young men
with no hope forjobs or education.
But the growing drug trade has
added to the gangs’ power and
viciousness. Police have been un
abletocontaintheresultantcrime,
About 35 percent of the Balti
more police force’s 3,100 mem
bers are black. .
More black officers than white
officers were fired in every year
this past decade except 1990,
when nine whites were termi
nated, according to the study.
That year, eight blacks lost their
jobs.
Col. Ronald L. Daniel, chief of
the field operations bureau and
considered second-in-command
of the department, said the is
sues raised before the City
Council’s Legislative Investiga
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ECONOMIC SUMMIT: Vice President Al Gore
and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki meet with
a group of leading American radio commen
tators and talk-show hosts to discuss the work
of the U.S.-South Africa Binational Commis
sion. The Commission was formed by Presi
dents Clinton and Mandela to promote tech
nological, scientific and economic coopera
tion between the American and South African
public and private sectors, to spur economic
Coast Guard seizes more than two tons of pot
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
(AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard
seized more than two tons of
marijuana duringroutine patrols
in the Caribbean.
The first, 3,850-pound ship
ment was found Saturday aboard
a Colombian motorboat, about
100 miles west of Colombia’s
Guajira Peninsula, the Coast
Guard reported.
The 35-foot boat was first
same freezer as white sperm,
Vaux said.
“We don’t want to mix white
sperm with the black and the
blacks don’t want white sperm, or
they don’t want Oriental, and the
Orientals don’t want black,” she
said.
“They want their own race and
there’snot anythingbigoted about
that.”
Vaux bases those views on her
experience in California, where
she worked for a sperm bank fi
nanced by the Foundation for the
Advancement of Man, a contro
versial operation aimed at pro
ducing genius babies by collecting
sperm from Nobel laureates.
fueling the vigilante campaign.
Aprotestby the group last week
ended withvigilantes shooting and
burning a drug lord, killing him.
About 5,000 of the group’s mem
bersand supporters had gathered
inastadiumin oneof Cape Town’s
largely Muslim neighborhoods.
Therally drew families with small
children, as well as armed young
menwho hid theirfacesinscarves.
After the rally, leader Farouk
Jaffer told reporters, “We are go
ing to a (drug) merchant’s house.
We don’t know where. We only
decide when we get there.”
The crowd pushed past two po
lice barricades, and police fired
tear gas. After the group ran into
a small group of gang members,
the two sides exchanged fire. It
was unclear who fired first.
tions Committee Thursday would
be discussed with Commissioner
Thomas C. Frazier.
Sam Ringgold, the
department’s chief spokesman,
said that each case made public
would be reviewed by command
ers, not necessarily to restore
jobs, but to determine whether a
pattern of discrimination exists.
“We have certainly heard alle
gations of discrimination overthe
past year, but now we are able to
attach names and faces to the
charges,” Ringgold said. “Now
we can go back and review the
cases.”
growth in South Africa, and to promote trade
and ivestment opportunities in South Africa
by American companies. Pictured (from left to
right): Vice President Gore; Benjamin Chavis,
WOL, Washington, D.C. and former NAACP
Executive Director; Bob Law, American Urban
Radio Network; Lisa Mitchell, WOL, Washing
ton, D.C.; Henry Tamlin, WDAS, Philadelphia;
John Arnold, WCHB, Detroit; and South Afri
can Deputy President Mbeki.
sighted by a Navy pilot flying off
the coast of Colombia. A Coast
Guardcutter arrived on the scene
shortly after. The five men aboard
the Colopan I were turned over
to Colombian authorities.
In a separate incident on Sun
day, the Coast Guard intercepted
a plane dropping bales of mari-
Jjuana into the sea near Jost Van
Dyke and Tortola, British Virgin
Islands. They recovered 38 pack
Rebel-flag controversy
From page one
In a city that got the Olympics
in part because of its history of
good race relations, the flag, im
posed in the 1950 s when the state
was defying federal orders to de
segregate,seemed a naturalissue
for the world media to pounce on.
They didn’t.
“The Olympics was an interna
tional event and we were covering
it for an international audience,”
said CNN spokeswoman Lori
Konopka. “This was a state story
which had been covered many
times before. There were so many
other things to cover in those 17
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ages of the drug, weighing more
than 300 pounds.
The British Virgin Islands po
lice took three men into custody,
including the captain of a 20-foot
ship, which was reportedly on its
way to pick up the drug ship
ment.
No details were available on
the defendants’ nationalities, nor
on what charges they face.
days..”
Protesters were “beating a dead
horse,” said Charles Lunsford,
spokesman for the Heritage Pres
ervation Association, which wants
to keep the flag. “I'm skeptical of
.some of these so-called leaders ...
They’re maybe just paid members
of organizations that need to keep
their constituency inflamed. I
think a lot of people are catching
on to that.”
Brooks, a veteran legislatorand
civil rights activist, was philo
sophical about the response.
“It took a long time to topple
apartheid in South Africa,” Brooks
said. “You saw what an educated
world did to apartheid. This in
creases our educational efforts.”
New black
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online service
educates on Web
Teaneck, NJ.
A unique online newspaper
with news, analyses and edito
rial commentaries about the glo
bal black experience has been
launched onthe World Wide Web
of the Internet.
The Black World Today
(www.tbwt.com) is a new Web
site built and managed by the
New Jersey-based Communica
tions for a New Tomorrow LLC.
It was designed by Webmaster
Sandra Oei of Salamander, Inc.
The site carries up-to-date gén
eral news from black countries
in Africa and the Caribbean and
from Black communities in the
United States, Canada, Europe
and Australia.
Editor-in-chief Don Rojas, a
former director of communica
tions for the NAACP and a vet
eran black-press journalist, has
assembled a multi-racial team of
top-flight reporters, correspon
dents and analysts, mostly from
the black press, to produce &n
information package that edu
cates and enlightens. Among its
regular columnists of national
andinternational reputation are
Herb Boyd, Ron Daniels, Peter
Noel, Manning Marable and
Bernice Powell Jackson.
“We are attempting to achieve
three ambitious goals,” says
Rojas. “First, to inform
cybercitizens about the day-to
day realities of Black people.
Second, to close the gap betwegn
theinformation ‘haves’and ‘have
nots’ in the increasingly polar
ized global economy and, finally,
to use electronic journalism asa
means of improving race rela
tions in the USA and around the
world.” 1
Access to the site is free to the
public and with a fee-based cus
tomized news service planned for
1997. Currently, the site offers
the most comprehensive infor
mation on the epidemic of Afri
can-American church burnings
tobe found anywhere on the Web.
The lukewarm response came
because protesters were “mixing
apples and oranges,” said Calvin
Logue, a speech communication
professor at the University of
Georgia. “The flag is not inher
ently tied to the Olympics.” :
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