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Citizens Salute News - Review’s 10 Years of service to Community
EDITOR’S NOTE: The
Augusta Black History
Activity Committee has
chosen to help undergird
the Black Press during
1981. Its local projects to
assist with the N-R 19th
anniversary. Messages
contained herein were
secured by that group for
this 1 * project the News*
Review war founded
March 25th, 1971.
.... The Rev. Luther R.
Neal Presiding Elder,
Augusta District, C.M.E.
Churches;
On behalf of the
C.M.E. Church of the
Augusta District, may we
say “hats off to the
News-Review on its 10th
Anniversary. May we
thank you for a juo well
done.
H.W. Beecher once
said: “Newspapers are
Speaker says Black Liberation
leads to Black Churches
The road to black
liberation leads to the
black church Dr. Charles
Adams, speaker for the
118th observance of the
Emancipation
Proclamation, said here
last Thursday.
The black church is
the only thing black
people own “lock, stock
and barrel,’* he said.
“We need a place
where we can get our
thing together. We need
some place where we can
affirm our faith against a
dehumanizing society.
“The black church to
the design of black
creative genius and the
focal point of black
functions. It is the power
base for black political
action and the incubator
in the production of black
leadership.”
Dr. Adams, a
Black Republicans Asks
Reagan Deny Late Comers
James C. Cummings, Jr.
chairman of the National
Black Republican
Council, last week asked
leaders of President*
Elect Ronald Reagan’s
campaign to protect the
interests of blacks who
endorsed Reagan early
and worked hard for his
election.
In a letter to the
“Reagan For President”
chairman and their
subordinates in all 50
states, Mr. Cummings
asked that they recruit
black Reagan supporters
in their individual states
who have interest in
positions in the Reagan
administration, and
support their
applications.
“It would * be
unconscionable for the
coming administration to
ignore the hundreds of
qualified blacks who
came out early for Mr.
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the school master of the
common people -a
greater treasure to them
than uncounted millions
of gold.” The News-
Review meets that
standard.
S.W. Walker. 11,
Board chairman and
chief executive officer of
Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co.:
I wish to salute The
News-Review on its 10th
anniversary. It has filled
a significant void by
reporting fairly news of
supreme importance to
our Black Community. It
has been a courageous
paper, many times
bucking powerful com
munity interests and
reporting the facts.
I shall never forget
the paper’s stand for
fairness in the Gene
Meads Tax Assessor
graduate of the Harvard
Divinity School, warned
his listeners at Taber
nacle Baptist Church
against distorted
religion. “There isn’t an
evil force in the world
that hasn’t been backed
up by somebody’s bad,
ugly, distorted religion.
Apartheid in South
Africa, slavery and
racism in America; cross
burnings, lynching and
murder are all indulged
in by religious folk.
But their religion is
no good,” he said. “The
moral majority has
religion, but it doesn’t
have any better religion
than to elect an ex
cowboy, worn-out,
retired, third-rate movie
actor to assume the
highest political office in
the nation.
Reagan and supported
his candidacy and give
the top jobs to blacks who
remained silent until
after the victory”,
Cummings warned.
He pointed out that
already Blacks “who did
absolutely nothing to help
Mr. Reagan get elected”
are courting persons
close to the President*
Elect and petitioning the
transition team for
consideration for high
government posts,
including Cabinet
positions.
Cummings charged
that the movement to
place “undeserving
opportunists” in positions
ahead of Republican
workers is led by a clique
of Washington, D.C.
bureaucrats who neve:
supported Reagan, but
have strategized to
exploit the incoming
administration. The
'For Colored Girls’
to bo Presented in Augusta
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controversy. While the
majority papers joined
the politicians in a
blantant attempt to oust
Meads, The News-
Review chose to look
beneath the surface and
get at the facts.
It is my ferverent
hope that The News-
Review has many more
years ahead to illuminate
the news for us in away
the majority papers
never have and never
will. Happy Tenth!
Mrs. Georgine
Hatcher-Searbrook
Augusta Branch NAACP
President:
The Augusta NAACP
salutes The News-
Review for its 10 years of
publication working to
serve our people in a
manner which our op
position has served to
work against us.
Christian priorities,
he said, do not teach you
to use people to make
money it teaches you to
use money to help people.
“Skeptics say the
church is old-fashioned.
They say it’s horse and
buggy. But I say I’d
rather go the heaven in
an ox cart than to go
zooming into hell on a jel
plane.
James L. Kenkrick,
owner of Augusta
Blueprint an Micro-film
Co., received the Lincoln
League’s Citizen of the
Year Award Thursday al
the groups Emancipatioc
Day Program.
Kendrick is boarc
chairman of the Auguste
Opportunities
Industrialization Center.
National Black
Republican Council is the
official auxiliary of the
Republican Party. The
group is organized in 26
states and boasts more
than 8,000 members.
Members of NBRC
formed the core of the
National Blacks for
Reagan-Bush
Committee, operating
from one-third of the
positions on the steering
group. NBRC leaders
directed the Reagan
effort in 22 states,
heading and directing the
Blacks for Reagan-Bush
committees in the states.
“There is no dirth of
qualified Black Reagan
supporters”, Cummings
informed the Reagan
leaders. “We can provide
you with a number of
applicants for every
position. And every
P' io’ whose name we
supply will be qualified”
January 10, 1981
Our warm
congratulations for a
splendid job of reporting
and enlighting the Black
Community. Your in
formative news has
served a dual purpose of
educating blacks while
also educating whites
about blacks.
As you weather the
storm of racial establish
mentarian attempts to
discredit your efforts, we
hope that the black
community will fully
realize that survival of
the black press is
paramount to the sur
vival of blacks in
America. Its loss will
mean that all gains made
by our Civil Rights
Movement will then be
meaningless.
The Rev. J.S. Wright,
President , Baptist
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'For Colored Girls’ to be Performed
The Augusta Arts and
Cultural Association,
Inc., will present
Atlanta’s Alliance
Theatre Co. in the drama
“For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide-
When the Rainbow Is
Enuf” Jan. 26, 27, at 8
p.m. in the Augusta
College Performing Arts
Theatre.
“For Colored Girls”
is a look into the minds
and hearts of women - in
particular black women
as they experience the
joy of discovering
themselves.
This tapestry of
prose-poems is written by
Ntozake Shange (un-toe
zakee-shang-a) and will
Black Republicaas ask
Reagan to deflate comers
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Ministerial Conference:
Best wishes on your
10th Anniversary. As the
best newspaper in this
area, your close support
and coopeation with our
black churches is indeed
important. There is
general agreement that
the News-Review has
done a very good job, is
needed now more than
ever, and all of us should
get behind it to help
expand its services and
operations. Keep up your
good work. God Bless
you, staff and readers
during 1981!
William T.‘ Johnson,
Retired Recreation
Administration:
A hearty and ap
preciative 10th birthday.
Your publication has
come through in the
pinch, just when needed
during the past ten years.
be performed in Augusta
as part of a nine-state
Southern tour by the
Alliance Theatre. Miss
Shange’s choreopoem to
black sisterhood played
to sold-out houses in
Atlanta last season.
Atlanta Journal
critics Scott Cain wrote of
the production, “For
Colored Girls...Crackless
with intensity. Scene
after scene blazes into
life and etches itself
firmly in the memory.”
Helen C. Smith of Atlanta
Constitution stated
simply. “To applaud
would not be nearly enuf.
Director Walter Dallas
brings to the Alliance
stage a For Colored
Giris... full of integrity
Our local daily papers
have, unfortunately, seen
fit to editorially besmirch
the memory of the late
Dr. M.L. King, Jr. opt for
an unfair firing act on
Human Relations
Director Charles Walker,
and constantly stepped on
Vernon Jordan Ben
Hooks, Dr. Joe Lowery,
Andy Young and Jesse
Jackson. They’ve con
tinued an apparently
planned editorial cam
paign to insult and
degrade black residents
here and around the
nation.
As this practice is not
good for racial harmony,
economic progress or
basis justice and fair
ness, it just is not done
now in other newspapers
around our nation.
(Check the record). And
Alliance Theatre Cast of
“FOR COLORED GIRLS”
and moments of great
excitement...”
When first produced
by Joseph Papp at the
New York Shakespeare
Festival in 1976, “For
Colored Girls...was
heralded by Clive Barnes
of the New York Times as
“a totally extraordinary
and wonderful evening of
theatre.” When it opened
on Broadway the
following year, Mel
Gussow of the Times
concurred, describing it
as “a play that should be
seen, savored and
treasured.”
The Alliance touring
production of “For
Colored Girls...” will
again be directed by
Walter Dallas, Artistic
Dallas Cowboys star
ED "Too Tall” Joaos
to speak bore
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The News-Review has
handled the questions of
education, job
discrimination, voting
and the franchise just as
is done by 200 other black
papers around our nation.
In the meanwhile,
plucky Editor M.K.
Millender has mounted
timely and forthright
editorial replies which
have been warmly
received by News-
Review readers.
Unfortunately, some few
of our white friends have
seen them as “militant”
or “angry.” But if we had
no News-Review, who in
God’s name would have
answered for blacks in
the Augusta area? We’d
be lost in Augusta!
Edward Mclntyre,
Founder of the Augusta
Black Festival, Former
Director of Atlanta’s
Proposition Theatre. A
graduate of Yale
University, Mr. Dallas
has twice received
Atlanta’s prestigious
Bronze Jubilee Award for
outstanding cultural
achievement in drama.
Black Judge to be
NAACP Speaker
U.S. District Judge
Matthew Perry of South*
Carolina will be the
speaker at the NAACP
annual banquet at the
Thunderbird Inn Jan. 15.
25C
County Commissioner.
I am happy to join the
many other citizens in
saluting the News-
Review on its 10th bir
thday. Your indepth
coverage of the news
about the black ex
perience has been un
paralleled.
Thanks for your
coverage of the Augusta
Arts and Cultural
Association and the Black
Festival which has
helped contribute to their
success. Members at
tending the Third
National Institute for
Black Elected Officals in
1977 will always
remember how Publisher
Mallory Millender
brought in to Washington,
D.C. 3,000 copies of your
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Tickets may be
purchased at the door or
in advance from the
office of the Augusta Arte
and Cultural Association,
360 Bay St., Suite 315 in
the New South Building.
Call AACA at 724-9712 for
additional information.
The program begins
at 7:30. Tickets are $lO.
Interested persons should
contact Glossine Peter*
or Georgene Hatcher-
Seabrook.