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January 13, 2005
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Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. honored
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PRNewswire - The
Charles H. Wright Muse
um of African American
History will offer a full
day of activities and
events in observance of
the Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. holiday on
Monday, January 17,.
The Reverend Kenneth J.
Flowers of Greater New
Mount Moriah Mission
ary Baptist Church will
be the featured guest
speaker at the annual
breakfast, beginning at
8:00 a.m.
Educational program
ming and activities begin
at 11:00 a.m. with the
opening ceremony.
Throughout the day,
there will be musical per
Powell Discusses AIDS, sex in Africa
By ANNE GEARAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)
- Promiscuity and other
risky sexual behavior
must change to stop the
spread of AIDS in Africa,
Secretary of State Colin
Powell said Saturday.
Young Kenyans,
including an 11-year-old
girl, had a frank discus
sion with Powell about
promiscuity, resistance
to condoms and the cul
tural expectation that
young girls will have sex
with much older men.
“Those sorts of pat
terns of behavior have to
change to protect young
people,” Powell told the
gathering.
Powell is in Africa to
attend a signing ceremo
ny ending north-south
fighting in Sudan. The
two-decade-old conflict
is Africa’s longest-run
ning civil war. Powell
met with Kenyan Presi
dent Mwai Kibaki after
the AIDS round-table
Saturday.
The Sudanese peace
accord does not address
the more recent fighting
and refugee crisis in
Sudan’s western Darfur
region, which Powell has
called genocide. He
planned to press
Sudanese government
leaders to resolve the
Darfur crisis during the
weekend meetings.
About 7 percent of
adult Kenyans are infect
ed with HIV or have
AIDS, a rate much high
er than western nations
but lower than some
countries in southern
Africa where 20 percent
or more of the popula
tion is infected.
“Africa I think for too
long a period of time
formances, storytellers,
children’s activities, and a
panel discussion. Dr.
Roberta Hughes Wright,
wife of museum founder,
the late Dr. Charles H.
Wright will share words
of wisdom and personal
testimonies during an
exclusive book signing for
the new edition of her
book, “Rosa Parks the
Birth of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott.” Pricewater
houseCoopers is the
sponsor of the King Day
Celebration 2005.
WHO: Museum mem
bers and the general pub
lic.
WHAT: D: Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day Cel
ebration
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of State Colin Powell (L) during a courtesy call at State
House in Nairobi.
ignored the problem,
looked the other way and
said ‘no, this isn't hap
pening here,”” Powell
said.
He criticized African
countries, without nam
ing them, that denied
AIDS was a problem.
Powell also noted former
South African President
Nelson Mandela’s disclo
sure this week that his
son died of complica
tions from AIDS.
“More and more peo
ple are willing to speak
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out about this and not
hide,” Powell said.
AIDS kills more than
600 people every day in
South Africa. Mandela’s
successor, Thabo Mbeki,
once denied knowing
anyone who had died of
the disease.
Powell sat in a circle
with 19 Kenyans, most in
their teens and 20s, who
work to prevent HIV
transmission among their
peers. The discussion
included blunt discussion
of sexual and cultural
practices, including what
24-year-old Boniface
Mwendwa described as
social pressure for young
women to have sex with
“people we call sugar dad
dies.”
Older men are much
more likely than young
girls or women to carry
the disease, and older
men-to-younger-women
is a major source of trans
mission in Kenya and
elsewhere.
Ale you getiap
through to the young
people, or do you say
you're square?” Powell
asked.
Reception is better now
than it used to be, Powell
was told. Abstinence,
faithfulness to a single
partner and condom use
are discussed much more
openly than a few years
ago, and more Kenyans
are open about their HIV
status. At least one of the
young women who spoke
to Powell on Saturday is
HIV positive.
The anti-AIDS message
starts early. Eleven-year
old Grace Gathoni is a
member of the Brownie
patrol at her elementary
school. She came to the
meeting dressed in her
uniform.
“We learn about HIV
and AIDS, and sexually
transmitted diseases,” at
school, she said. “We are
also taught to value our
virginity, our education
and our life.”
Before arriving in
Nairobi on Friday, Powell
spent five days touring
countries hit by last
month’s killer tsunami.
He said he will give Presi
dent Bush a report Mon
day on the tsunami dam
age and U.S. aid to the
region,
ary 17, 2005 Breakfast is
8:00 a.m., Educational
programs and activities
11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Charles
H. Wright Museum of
African American History
WHY: In observance of
the Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. holiday
COST:Breakfast:
$25.00 members/$35.00
non-members
For additional informa
tion regarding the Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day celebration, please
contact Raymond Tate,
director of Public Rela
tions and Marketing at
313-494-5829 or
Rochelle Danquah,
Director of Education
and Public Programming
Civil rights killings,
some say time may be
on the side of the victims
By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer
WEST COLUMBIA,
South Carolina (AP)
~There’s an old saying,
“Justice delayed is jus
tice denied.” But in the
case of three civil rights
workers slain in Missis
sippi four decades ago,
some say time may be on
justice’s side.
Reputed Ku Klux Klan
member Edgar Ray
Killen, 79, was indicted
last week on three
counts of murder in the
1964 killings. If Killen
had been tried in Nesho
ba County, Mississippi,
four decades ago, he
probably would have
faced an all-white, all
male jury, lawyers say.
Civil rights attorney
Morris Dees said that
could have led to an
unfair trial in Mississip
pi, which was once one
of America’s most fierce
ly segregationist states.
Protests planned
for Inauguration
By The Associated Press
Anti-Bush groups
nationwide are expected to
stage protests inauguration
week. Examples of protests
planned for Jan. 20, Inau
guration Day:
- An economic boycott.
The groups are encourag
ing people to not to buy
anything. Theyd like to see
Americans go so far as to
cancel all goods and servic
es, such as cable and phone
connections, and patronize
only companies that give
money to Democrats.
~ The January 20 Com
mittee, based in New
at 313-494-5844. The
Charles H. Wright Muse
um of African American
History, located at 315
East Warren Avenue in
Detroit’s Cultural Center,
is open Tuesday, 9:30
anm. - 80 pm,,
Wednesday through Sat
urday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00
p-m. and Sunday, 1:00 -
5:00 p.m. Admission is
SB.OO for adults (ages 13
- 61) and $5.00 for sen
iors and children (ages 3 -
12). Museum members
and children under 3 are
admitted free. Visit us on
the web at
hetp://www.maah
detroit.org
“And that would have
prevented these guys
from being tried today,”
said civil rights attorney
Morris Dees, whose
Southern Poverty Law
Center has dogged the
Klan in the courts.
Now, Killen— and any
one else who might be
charged in the infamous
case — will have to face a
racially diverse jury in a
courtroom where not
only the defendants, but
the social system that
spawned these crimes
will be put on trial.
“Perhaps we're lucky it
took this long,” said
Julian Bond, board
chairman of the Nation
al Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People.
Killen, his head slight
ly tilted, uttered a strong
“not guilty” three times
to three murder charges
Friday. Mississippi
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Orleans, supports the eco
nomic boycott and will
hold traditional jazz funer
al procession through The
Big Easy’s downtown. The
march is to mourn a sec
ond Bush term and what
the group’s organizer calls
the death of democracy.
- Some protesters are
going to the nation’s capital
for the big day, and turn
their backs as the presi
dent’s motorcade passes
them on the parade route.
Source: Associated Press
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