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Broadway
Is My Beat
By Joey Sasso
National Black News Service
Caught In The Act: Carmen
Mcßae, singer, pianist, and to
quote the great, great Ella:
“Carmen Mcßae, that’s my girl.
She sings with so much beat, so
much feeling. She just kills me.”
Ms. Mcßae is now playing her
fourth engagement at The
Rainbow Grill, through August
4. Riding high on the success of
her latest Grove Merchants
International album “It Takes a
Whole Lot of Human Feeling”,
from the Broadway smash hit
“Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t
Cope”, and a concert tour with
Dave Brubeck, as well as a
Newport Jazz Festival Concert,
she is now captivating audiences
nightly with her performances
Her Atlantic album “The Sound
of Silence” was voted the top
vocal LP for the year in the 7th
Annual International Critics
Poll.
Stax Reocrds star Carla
Thomas was a smash as guest
star with the Memphis
Symphony. Termed a milestone
appearance by the symphony’s
spokesman, the engagement
merged Carla’s sexy, soulful
sound with symphonic classics.
Roll over Beethoven!
The August issue of
Penthouse-Forum takes a close
look at the possibilities of open
marriage in “What Type of
Marriage Suits You?” This is the
first of a new series on marriage
that will continue for some
time.
A black group of investors
has just pledged $300,000 to
produce “What It Is, Baby”, a
rhythm and blues rock musical
about two black lady singers
and their climb to stardom. The
authors should know what
they’re talking about- they’re
Eloise Laws and Laura Lee - an
off-camera pair of female
vocalists! Some of the backers
seem to know what they’re
doing - many of them backed
the original “Superfly”. “What
It Is, Baby” bows in Motown in
September, with a Broadway
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Althea Gibson, who came off
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a world tennis great, has
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youngsters who never played
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to such endeavors. Althea is
director of the Pepsi-Cola
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is bringing the sport to
thousands of youngsters around
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Jayne Kennedy of the Dean
Martin Show, threw a surprise
party recently for her husband,
Leon Issac. Jayne and her guests
toasted Leon with a round of
vintage scotch.
Hal Jackson, who was the
first black sportscaster and the
recipient of awards from three
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Bush Names
RNC
Minority
Consultant
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—Republican National
Chairman George Bush has
announced the appointment of
Arthur A. Fletcher as consultant
to the RNC for minority affairs.
Fletcher will advise the
Chairman and other party
officials on political matters
with special emphasis in the
minority area.
In announcing the
appointment. Bush said: “With
the appointment of Art
Fletcher, the Republican
National Committee is putting
the nation on notice that the
Republican Party means
business and is going to actively
and aggressively seek to not
only build a broad base of
support for the Party and its
programs, but also to
significantly involve black
leaders in the affairs of the
Party.”
Fletcher, a longtime advocate
of the involvement of blacks in
the policy making areas of the
Republican Party, sees as one of
his goals the encouragement of
qualified blacks to run for
public office as Republicans. “A
top priority”, Fletcher said of
his new position, “will be to see
that electable black candiates
run for Congress in 1974 and
that they are supported fully by
the official Party structure. It is
hoped that one or more black
Republicans will be elected to
Congress during the coming
mid-term elections.”
Fletcher began his work with
the Republican Party in 1948
when, as a student at Washbum
University in Topeka, Kansas,
he was state Vice-Chairman of
the Kansas Republican Party.
From 1955 to 1957, Fletcher
served as legislative liason
officer for former Kansas
Governor Fred Hall.
Fletcher was chairman of the
California Republican
Assembly 1959 through 1961,
and in 1962 ran for a seat in the
California State Assembly.
In 1965, Fletcher was elected
to the City Council of Pasco,
The Augusta News-Review - August 2, 1973 -
"Is English
An Enemy
To Black Let’s dßSfc
Share J
People?" Js
Loftlin
Have you noticed how the English language is geared toward
prejudice and bigotry? It never really occurred to me until I read an
essay by Ossie Davis in the book “Language in America” edited by
Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner.and Terence P. Moran.
In essence, Mr. Davis feels teachers must strive to reconstruct the
English language in order to remove racism and prejudice from our
society. When Europeans left the old country to find a better life
free from injustice and prejudices, they should have left those
adjectives that will taint any young mind, consciously or
unconsciously. Black or White.
Let’s look at some of the definitions Webster lists for Black: very
dark; soiled, dirty; wicked; expressive of condemnation or
discredit; invoking the supernatural and especially the devil;
gloomy, calamitous; sullen, hostile; and characterized by the
absence of light. It could almost make you ashamed of speaking
English.
On the other hand, Webster lists White as: free from spot or
blemish; free from moral impurity; innocent; not intended to cause
harm; favorable, fortunate; notably ardent, passionate; and
conservative or reactionary in political outlook and action.
After being greatly annoyed by these definitions, 1 turned to
Roget’s Thesaurus of Words and Phrases to see what he had to say
for “Negro”. There 1 found listed as a synonym for Negro the word
“servant”.
My first impulse was to throw both books in the trash, but before
doing so I looked up the work “racism”. And 1 must say, Mr.
Webster knew the English language very well, but he knew himself
better. Os racism he says, “a belief that race is the primary
determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial
differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”
Needless to sav 1 did not throw the books away. I did learn
something; how to spell racist w-e-b-s-t-e-r
Washington, and he was a
candiate for lieutenant governor
in that state in 1968.
Fletcher was appointed
Assistant Secretary of Labor in
1969 and was appointed an (
alternate delegate to the United
Nations in 1971. At the time,
RNC Chairman Bush was U.S.
Permanent Representative to
the UN. ‘
Following his service at the
UN. Fletcher was executive
Director of the United Negro
College Fund and during his
tenure there raised SI 1.2
million dollars for
predominently Negro colleges.
Fletcher currently owns and
operates an employment
standards consulting firm,
Arthur A. Fletcher and
Associates.
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Guideline
Retreat Will
Mean Black
Defections
ATLANTA, - Any retreat
from the guidelines which
tripled Black participation at
the 197 2 Democratic
Convention represents
“gambling with the affections
of the party’s most loyal
supporters” a Democratic Party
Commission was told here last
week.
State Rep. Julian Bond told
the National Democratic
Commission On Delegate
Selection and Party Structure
that Black voters were “less
interested in labels than
performance.”
“We will increasingly be
guided by the old maxim: “We
have no permanent friends, no
permanent enemies, only
permanent interests,” Bond
said.
Also appearing was U.S.
Representative Andrew Young
(D-Ga) who defended the
guidelines, saying “The spirit of
the reforms must be
maintained”.
Young said that the
McGovern-Fraser guidelines,
adopted by the party after the
1968 convention, had increased
Black participation at national
conventions from 5% in 1968 to
15% in 1972.
Rep. Bond noted that Black
voters have been “almost
slavishly loyal” to the
Democratic Party, giving
Lyndon Johnson 98% of the
Black vote in 1964, Hubert
Humphrey 96% in 1968, and
George McGovern 93% in 1972.
He noted, however, that a
recent survey showed Black
allegiance to the Democratic
Party down 16 points, and
predicted further Black
defections if the guidelines are
abandoned or weakened.
The only Black testifying
against continuation of the ‘72
rules which bought record
numbers of Blacks to the Miami
Convention was James Moore,
an official of the A. Philip
Randolph Institute.
Moore said the guidelines
were “quotas” which were
“insulting” to Blacks, because
they imply' that Blacks can’t
compete in the political arena
and need special protection.
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