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Vol. 4
Newsweek Loses Job Bias Appeal’
Must Pay Yette’s Lawyers $20,000
WASHINGTON,
D.C.-Newsweek magazine has
been ordered to pay attorneys
for Samuel F. Yette $20,000
and to move ahead on setting
up a fair employment program
in it* Washington office
“There ought to be Black
folks running in every race
that’s run,” State
Representative Bobby Hill told
the Augusta Caucus Sunday in
the Paine College Chapel.
Hill told the group that
people are losing faith in
politics. But he noted, “Right
here in Georgia, in this year, is
the greatest opportunity for
Mays, Mclntyre Share
Citizen Os The Year Award
City Councilwoman Carrie J.
Mays and County
Commissioner Edward
Mclntyre have been name to
receive the News-Review’s
“Citizen of the Year” award.
Editor-publisher Mallory K.
Millender said that Mrs. Carrie
Mays was chosen for her
“courageous leadership and
integrity” while Mclntyre more
quietly was responsible for
things that will significantly
improve the quality of life for
the people of Richmond
County.”
He cited street paving, the
proposed coliseum, the
Augusta Caucus, the State
Caucus of Black Elected
Officials, and the State Hall of
Fame among Mclntyre’s
contributions.
Mrs. Mays also won the
award last year. Attorney John
Ruffin won the award in 1971.
Jobs, Justice, Housing Real Goals
Black Publisher Tells Press Club
WASHINGTON-Jobs,
justice, and fair housing were
seen as the real goals of
political power by Dr. Carlton
B. Goodiett, president of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association, in an address here
last week.
The election of Black
mayors, members of Congress,
and others is not an end in
itself, but the beginning of our
search for economic justice for
all the people, he added.
Dr. Goodlett, a medical
doctor and a Ph.D. editor and
publisher of the San Francisco
Sun-Reporter, was speaking
before the prestigious National
Press Club here whose podium
is usually reserved for visiting
heads of state and top
American officials. He was
P.O. Box 953.
The order, handed down by
the D.C. Commission of
Human Rights, March 8, was in
response to Newsweek’s
request that the Commission
renege on its finding last
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Blacks Urged To Take Over
And Clean-up Politics
the Augusta Caucus will come
upon us because this is our
time to capture a part of the
politics of this city, and
Savannah and Atlanta.”
Blacks, he said, should not
be saddened by the state of
politics because “Blacks had
nothing to do with it. We
were on the outside looking in.
It’s our time to take it over and
do it right.”
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given a standing ovation.
His lunceon address, the
first to be delivered before the
club by a Black publisher, was
in observance of Black Press
Week, marking the 147th
anniversary of the founding of
Freedom’s Journal, the first
Black newspaper published in
the United States. John B.
Russwurm and Rev. Samuel E.
Cornish launched iton March
16,1827.
In answer to a question, Dr.
Goodlett took a solid position
in favor of birth control. He
pointed out that if would be
much better to have 30 million
strong, healthy, well educated
Blacks than to have 50 million
uneducated weaklings in the
ghettoes.
Regarding equal
was guilty of racial bias in
firing Yette, its only Black
reporter in Washington.
The Commission also
reaffirmed its order that
Newsweek pay Yette, now a
Howard Univprsitv imirnalicm
A lawyer from Savannah
who wts first elected to the
state legislature in Atlanta six
years ago at the age of 27, Hill
told the predominantly Black
audience not to be “depressed
because of something which
you didn't have anything to do
with. You ought to be hopped
up about it”
Hill said people should,
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employment opportunities, the
NNPA president pressed for
quotas, as away of measuring
progress. “It is the right of
every American citizen to have
a job or an economic base
below which no one will be
allowed to fall," he
emphasized.
Dr. Goodlett said the Black
Press has always been
democracy’s catalytic agent,
and in the future it could prove
to be the means of saving the
nation.
In closing, he turned to the
great abolitionist leader of a
century ago, Sojourner Truth.
“I have come,” she once said
to a critical audience during
the slave era, “to tell you what
time of night it is.”
Augusta, Georgia
professor, SI,OOO in damages.
It also held that Yette must be
reimbursed, from the
attorney’s settlement, any fees
already piad by him.
Newsweek fired Yette in
1972, followine publication of
however, be saddened by the
fact that 118,000 children in
the state of Georgia go to
school with nothing to eat
every morning.
During a recent
conversation. Hill said he told a
fellow lawmaker it was
fortunate there were no Blacks
in the Nixon administration
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NECKTIE FOR PRESS CLUB SPEAKER-Clyde La Motte, right, president of the
National Press Club, is presenting the traditional necktie to Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, following his address
last week. Looking on are Mrs. Frances L. Murphy, 11, chairman of the board of the
Afro-American Newspapers: and Stanley S. Scott, special assistant to President
Nixon. Dr. Goodlett is the first Black publisher to address a National Press Club
Luncheon.-Bowman photo.
his award winning book, THE
CHOICE: THE ISSUE OF
BLACK SURIVAL IN
AMERICA, after a Newsweek
editor, according to Yette,
subjected him to racial slurs
and told him the hook
“because they would have been
put in jail.” He added, “Blacks
get the brunt of anything that
goes wrong.”
Without fanfare and without
headlines, the State Legislature
was reapportioned adding the
possibility of 12 new Black
legislators in this state. There
are now only fourteen Blacks.
Paine Professor
Announces Candidacy
Thomas C. McCain has
announced his candidacy for
the District II Edgefield
County Council seat.
McCain, 34, has been chosen
as a delegate to the state
Democratic Convention. He is
a professor of mathematics and
computer science at Paine
College and a member of the
college’s board of trustees.
He is married and the father
of two children.
If elected, McCain said he
would like to work with state
and federal officials in an
attempt to bring more industry
into Edgefield County. This, he
said, would broaden the
county’s tax and bring in more
revenue without having to
increase taxes for local
property owners.
He said he is also interested
in increasing the salary for the
county’s school teachers, many
of whom he said are working in
Aiken County because of
higher salaries. McCain said he
would work toward the
March 28, 1974 No. 2
“embarrassed” the magazine.
Newsweek denied the charge
and said Yette was fired for
“professional” reasons. Yette
had been with the magazine for
more than four years.
Yette’s chief counselor is
Reminding the audience that
this was an election year diring
which Georgia voters would be
selecting a new governor, he
said that Lt. Gov. Lester
Maddox (which Hill pronounces
mad ox) is “leading the pack”
of candidates “and no one is
excited about it.”
“We need to put him back
on the chicken farm,” Hill said.
THOMAS C. McCAIN
construction of more waste
treatment plants as opposed to
the dumping of raw sewage
into open ponds.
Clifford L. Alexander, Jr.,
former chairman of the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission, and now a
member of the law firm of
Arnold and Porter.
Thanks! |
This week the News-Review is celebrating our third
anniversary. Founded by Editor-Publisher Mallory K.
Millender, tiie News-Review was first published on
March 25, 1971. Many people have confused us with the
Weekly Review. There is no relationship at all. We did
not buy or otherwise take over the Weekly Review. That
paper went out of business. We started a new one with a
similar name and hopefully with the same high
standards of quality and integrity.
We wish to thank our readers for their continued
support and confidence. We are ever mindful of our
responsibility to keep our readers informed about issues
that concern them and their welfare. We see tiie Black
press as vital to the security and well being of the Black
community and, to the community at-large. And w-e
recognize that Black people need an organ through
which to inform and be informed.
In order to act intelligently on issues that concern the
Black community, the people must have the facts as
they relate to the Black community. And if the Black
press does not inform Black people, Black jreople
generally will not be informed.
Our role does not stop, however, with informing the
Black community. We must also let whites know how
we feel about issues concerning us and this community.
They must understand that we have a point of view and
most often that view point is different from theirs on
issues concerning the welfare of Black people. They
must understand that Blacks are not a part of the silent
majority and tiiat we won’t let others tell us what to
think, how to think or when to think. We think and
speak for ourselves - through the Black press.
We sometimes get comments about our negative
attitudes. Let us start first by establishing that things
that are positive to the progress of Black people are
negative to the oppressors of Black people, and we
expect our oppressors to try to oppress and to suppress
real feelings. And it is important to add that all of our
oppressors are not white.
We would not be so narrow minded as to think that
every one who disagrees with us is an oppressor, nor do
we think of all white people as enemies. However, we do
regard as enemies all people who would seek to deny
any people of their Constitutional and human rights. We
do regard as enemies all who seek to defend injustice.
We do regard as enemies all who stand in opposition to
Black liberation. We intend to be a thorn in the sides of
all that would deny any of God’s children the right to
develop to his full potential. If this makes us negative,
then so be it. For we intend to keep on keeping on.
We would br* remiss if we did not thank our staff for
its almost sacred devotion to the paper. Nobody writing
for the News-Review gets a salary. Our columnists such
as Al Irby, Roosevelt Green, Augustus Miller, Phil
Waring, Gwen Loftlin write week after week without
pay, because we don’t have tiie money to pay them and
because of their intense desire to see a good Black
newspaper.
Frank Bow man and James Stewart (in advertising and
circulation respectively) work on commission but have
done a tremendous job and we are greatly indebted to
them.
Reporters such as Robert Oliver and Joyce Mims are
compensated but their compensation is token at best.
And the editor is paid in stock. We mention these things
because we feel that you should be aware of the
tremendous devotion that our staff has shown for this
newspaper.
There is one other reason and that is that we enjoy
doing it. Finally, we thank God for giving us the
opportunity.
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Man Shot in the
head over
cigarette Page 2
9 Paine students
arrested in
assault case
page 2
Woman escapes
Post Office rape
attempt page 2
Paine wins first
baseball game
in 39 years
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