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April 1997-National BLACK MONITOR
AOIP's Executive Committee
Mr. Mel Bradiey; Mr. Tony Brown; Hon. ivory M. Buck Jr.,
AEAONM Shrine; Ms. Dorothy Chimney, Top Ladies of
Distinction; Ms Mildred Taylor Cosbey, Imperial Court
Daughters of isis; Milton Davis, Esq., Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity; Ms. Julia Davis, Eta Phi Beta Sorority; Mr. Ossie
Davis; Mr. Thomas Dortch Jr., Council of National Alumni
Associations; Ms. Beatrice Douglas, National Women Of
Achievement; Mr. Leonard Dunston, National Association
of Black Social Workers; Dr. Eva L. Evans, Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority; Ms. Myriie Evers-Williams, NAACP; Rev.
Walter Fauntroy, National Black Leadership Roundtable;
Hon. Johnny Ford, National Administrative Co-Chair; Ms.
Jylla Moore Foster, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority; Mr. John Goss,
iBPO Elks of the World; Dr. Earl Gray, President, Commu
nity Motivators, Inc.; Ms. Corine J. Green, Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority and AOIP Administrative Co-Chair; Mabel
Haden, Esq., National Association of Black Women Attor
neys; ; Dr. Dorothy Height, NCNW; Dr. Ada Jackson,
Special Coordinator; Dr. Charlie Mae Knight, NABSE; Dr.
Byron Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery, SCLC; Ms. Dorothy
Leavell (Hon.), NNPA; Rev. Henry Lyons, National Baptist
Convention, USA; Ms. Julianne Malveaux, National Asso
ciation of Negro Business & Professional Women's Clubs;
Dr. Dorsey Miller, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; Dr. Ophelia
DeVore Mitchell, Special Coordinator; Dr. Laßona Morros,
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority; Ms. Marcella Morrison, iota
Phi Lambda Sorority; Mr. Richard Nero, National Coalition
of Title | Chapter | Parents; Dr. Moses Norman, Special
Coordinator; Ms. Della Oliver, National Sorority of Phi
Deita Kappa; Dr. Joyce Peoples, Special Coordinator; Dr.
Wiiliam Pollard, NAACP; James Purdy, Esq., Special
Coordinator; Dr. Bertha Roddey, Deita Sigma Theta Soror
ity; Ms. JeanC.W. Smith, Daughter Elks; Dr. Leon Sullivan,
AOIP's Co-Founding Enabler; Dr. Ozell Sutton, Chairman,
Community Motivators, inc.; Dr. Lynette Taylor, US Dept
of Education Task Force; Mr. Solomon Wallace; Mr. Roy
Williams; Dr. Donald Wilson, IBPO Elks of the World; Mr.
Carter Womack, National Pan-Hellenic Council and Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity; Ms. Daisy Wood, Special Coordi
nator; and Rev. Howard Woods, Conference of Grand
Masters, Prince Hall Masons; Mr. Ronald Young. Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity.
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The National BLACK MONITOR is the official national interorganizational magazine
of AOIP,* a focus of Community Motivators, Inc. in extending the
NCNW. Pan-Hellenic and Fraternal networking concept.
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In celebration of Women's History
Month, we focus on the business and
professional women of the lota Phi
Lambda Sorority. Now entering its 67th
year, this organization's Greek letters stand
for “Ideals of Friendship and Love" and
symbolize the Christian social principles
of these elements along with loyalty. Our
editors believe this AOIP/NCNW-affiliated
organization is a shining example of what
we can accomplishwhen we--as a people
--work together.
AOIP's Goal category #lO deals with
our taking responsibility for building our
Black-led organizations. This goal objec
tive is to have Black Americans fully sup
portself-enhancing efforts (likethe NCNW,
NAACP, SCLC, AOIP and others) so that
begging will no longer be necessary.
AOIP's Long-Range Planning and Re
search Identification isthe Standing Com
mittee that has oversight of this goal cat
egory. The national organizations and their
leaders who serve on this committee are:
NAACP led by Mr. Kwesi Mfume; Na
tional Association of Market Developers
led by Ms. Yvonne Pearson; National
Black Republican Council led by Mr. Fred
Brown; National Black Caucus off State
Legislators led by Rep. Lois Deßerry;
National Conference of Black Mayors led
by Mayor Emanuel Cleaver Il; and Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity led by Dr. Dorsey Miller.
We continue this month our regular sea
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Beyond were deveioped, and the name changed to Assault On literacy Process, or simply AOIP.
tures of "Carolyn's Cinema Notes," and
reintroduce our book review column,
"“MONITOR Manuscripts." "MONITOR
Motoring" provides a listing from the
United Auto Workers (UAW) of the cars,
lighttrucks and vans which are manufac
tured in this country. This is in line with
AOIP's consciousness-raising effort to get
our people to purchase cars and other
high-ticket items from those corporations
which provide jobs and other economic
opportunitiesto the communities of Black
America. So, if you are in the market for a
new car(s), please keep in mind this ur
gent collective AOIP campaign.
The idea behind this Black leadership
initiated U.S. Auto Industry Support cam
paign--advocating the long-established
focus of another AOIP-affiliated organiza
tion, SCLC led by the renowned Dr. Jo
seph Lowery--arose surrounding two con
cerns as follows:
1) the need for Black Americans to "edu
cate their spending dollars to make more
sense" as ameans of having along-needed
and sufficiently-realistic economic base
for motivating our young and others to
want to leam so as to earn the opportunity
of obtaining a good-paying job that can
enable achievement of a responsible and
fulfiliing lifestyle; and,
2) how best our Black leadership groups
could be far more supportive of the three
Please support the United Black Fund
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AOIP Cooperating Newspapers — 2
Editorial Not€S — —— — — — — 2
What Is Happening Nationally . . 4
MONITOR Motoring — — — — 4
MONITOR Manuscripts — — 5
Carolyn's CINEMA NOTES — — 5
MONITOR Cover Story
"Upward and Onward in
Efficient Service: lota Phi
Lambda Sorority, INC." —— — 6
JeuwnJ.onaflnmetyivAeqog’iumDr.brusi
Mansfield is the managing editor of the Nationa!
BLACK MONITOR. National offices for the Na
tional BLACK MONITOR are at 231 West 20th
Street, Suite 1205, New York, NY 10001. Tele
phone (212) 967-4000, FAX (212) 971-4682.
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U.S. carmakers (despitethefact thatthey
have provided many more jobs and other
economic benefits to Black Americans
than any other corporations in America,
and have invested heavily and con
tinuously in various marketing and
advertising strategies embracing Black
owned media vehicles) who continuously
have suffered huge losses of car sales
among Black Americans to "Import-label*
makers who proportionately have done
little either to provide jobs and other
ecanomic benefits to the communities of
Black America or committed themselves
(through "Fair-Share-type" agreements) to
deal equitably at present with the car
buying communities of Black America.
An unprecedented media-based cata
lyst successfully has encouraged and
enabled AOIP--an all-volunteer coalition
of over 90 of the most influential, national
leadership groups in Black America (with
a membership and family reach of more
than 16 million deeply concerned
consumer citizens) for the first time ever--
to 1) begin working together in a
coordinated way to eradicate the “root
causes” of abroad range of illiteracy-related
"ills," and 2) start rewarding those
corporations, with vastly increased and
guaranteed sales action, which utilize
AOIP's supporting newspapers and the
National BLACK MONITOR on a regular
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