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JAYNE KENNEDY - UP CLOSE —Beautiful Jayne Kennedy is becoming even richer as a
strong businesswoman as she makes it on her own for the first time in her life.
Jayne Kennedy, making it alone
In a very personal interview,
beautiful, wealthy and successful
sportscaster-actress Jayne Ken
nedy discusses her evolution from
daddy’s girl to Leon’s girl to Jayne’s
woman, in the July EBONY.
Following her much publicized
break-up with actor Leon Issac
Kennedy, Jayne is on her own for
the first time in her life and en-
Ann Johnson and Company,
practical fashions with flair
Ann Johnson, administrative
assistant to the vice president of
Paine College, is still discovering
her talents.
Her first love is restoring and
refinishing antiques. She also en
joys interior designing and creating
her own window and bed ac
cessories. But it is as a fashion
designer that she has burst into
prominence in the Augusta area.
She says that she began
designing nine years ago when she
announced to friends that she was
going to do some sewing to raise
funds for Elim Baptist Church
where she is a member of the
Senior Choir. She offered to sew
something for them, for a minimal
fee.
She said that the project was so
successful that she decided to have
a fashion show to let members of
the church see how well the project
had gone.
From that project, civic
organizations, schools and chur
ches began asking her to have
shows for them.
Today Ann Johnson and Com-
Shirley Caesar
weds, gives advice
to women over 30
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joying her newfound control. She
says that she used to lean on
Leon’s business judgments, but
now as the sole product and sole
owner of Jayne Kennedy Enter
prises, the final business decisions
are hers alone.
She’s busy, as usual, with a lot
of projects, including her hosting
duties of TV’s “Greatest Sports
pany are in constant demand. But
she is not overwhelmed by her suc
cess.
“It is always important for me
to let others understand that
whatever talent I have comes from
the Lord. When I sew or design
something that pleases me, I am
grateful to Him for it,’’ she said.
Her designs, she says, range
from “the dramatic to the prac
tical with flair.”
“I design for me personally
things that I can wear daily.
Because of my busy schedule I
have to own a wardrobe that I can
mix and match, dress up or down,
and many of my outfits have at
least four or five pieces which give
me more flexibility in putting a cer
tain look together.”
One of her big assests is a
“second set of critical eyes,” those
of her husband, Ellis.
“He’s really good at letting me
know what he likes and doesn’t
like, and he also gives ideas as to
what I can do to improve my lines.
“I guess it’s not always my ideas,
but a combination of the two.”
Legends.”
Jayne also talks about her in
famous Playboy picture spread,
the lack of a love interest in her
life, her wish of children, and her
reticence about remarriage. Jayne
adds that she knows much is expec
ted of her but she says, “I can’t be
perfect. I don’t want to be. I’m
just one woman.”
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Hiltonia
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Black
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July 9,1983
GARY, Ind.—“ Even in the
midst of unity, we must retain the
right to criticize (each other). We
don’t want to confuse unity with
sacrificing the right to disagree.”
So said Benjamin Hooks Jr.,
executive director of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, during a
workshop at the Black publishers’
convention Friday at the Genesis
Center.
The workshop was set up to ex
plore ways of promoting unity
between members of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
and Black-oriented organizations.
“Whenever you have people of
strong will, you will have different
points of view,” Hooks said. “But
Harold Washington
praises Black press
GARY, Ind.—Chicago Mayor
Harold Washington credits the
Black press as the only medium
willing to cover all sides of his
political campaign.
“You seem to have hit the mark
time and time again in pointing out
the (racial) overtones and pointing
out what it was all about,” he told
a luncheon audience at the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association convention at the
Genesis Center. “The Chicago
press got so wrapped up in the
game, they forgot the goal.”
He added that, “They are so
convoluted, so singularly
motivated, so used to writing
about a misshapened, bent up city
they felt would never be put right
that they are victims of the system
as much as the city itself.”
He said he is confident that
when they realize that reform is
imminent in Chicago, the media
there “will lead the charge.”
At the Black publishers’ conven
tion, Washington addressed an
overflow crowd of about 300 in a
banquet room.
He said that while Black firsts
Benjamin Hooks:
criticize, but unite
Ann Johnson
and Company:
fashions with flair
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intelligent people can differ
without being disagreeable.”
His remarks bore a double edge.
On one hand, they addressed the
NNPA workshop topic of unity.
But on the other hand, they ap
peared to refer to a highly
publicized squabble between him
self and NAACP board chair
woman Margaret Bush Wilson.
Mrs. Wilson suspended Hooks,
but he was quickly reinstated by
the NAACP board amid harsh
criticism of Mrs. Wilson and
demands that she resign.
Hooks told the publishers,
“When you all have differences in
your group, and I know that you
do, I hope you handle yours better
than we handled ours.”
are significant—Washington is
Chicago’s first Black mayor—he
also told the group that the most
important aspect lies in the grass
roots effort that catapulted him in
to office.
“People thought Blacks didn’t
register and vote in the past —not
because they were apathetic—but
because they became tired of but
ting their heads against the wall,”
Washington said.
He added that as soon as a
viable campaign was launched,
Blacks demonstrated their ability
to form a meaningful coalition
with Hispanic voters and many
whites.
The Black press was at the
vanguard in that movement,
Washington said. “Without it, ob
viously a lot of things would not
have happened in Chicago and I
would not have been mayor.”
Since taking office, Washington
has been at odds with a city council
bloc, led by Aiderman Edward Vr
dolyak, that has thwarted
Washington’s administration.
He said the resistance to his
see Washington, page 6
He added that, “We (blacks) are
not unaccustomed to controversy.
Wherever you have strong per
sonalities, you will have difference
of opinions. But there is no
animosity. I have no grievances.
It’s over and done and we’re
looking to the future.”
Hooks urged Black publishers
not to rely on the white media for
news for the NAACP. “You know
they talk about our membership
problems all the time,” he said.
“But you have to remember, they
talk about you all’s circulation,
too.”
The NAACP head said he is
wary of a pattern of complacency
among Blacks today. He said men
tality, not shackles, constitutes
slavery. “We have more slaves
today than we did in the 1860 s
because so many of us have sold
our souls,” Hook said.
He said that the NAACP urges
Blacks to support Black
publications and includes as a part
of any agreement reached with a
business or industry that Black
media receive a fair share of adver
tising.
He said it will be equally
necessary for the Black press to
continue urging people to join the
NAACP.
“Whatever our problems or our
numbers, we are still the largest
civil rights organization and the
most powerful,” Hooks said.
During the unity workshop, the
topic of a Black presidential can
see Hooks, page 3
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Mose Cooper
Hiltonia gets
Black mayor
by Marva Stewart
HILTONIA —Mose Cooper was
recently elected mayor of Hiltonia.
Cooper, the town’s first Black
mayor, received 150 votes while his
white opponent, Redell Forehand,
received 86 votes.
Also, three Blacks —Jessie
Williams Sr., Chester Powell and
Lloyd Badger Jr. —won seats on
the six-man city council. The
other three council seats were won
by white candidates, Ray Mobley,
William H. Friese and Norwood
Brinson.
Os the 299 registered voters, 238
turned out for the election.
A native of Screven County, he
has served as president of the
Screven County Branch of the
NAACP for the past ten years. He
was the first Black elected to the
Hiltonia City Council (1968). He
held that seat until his May elec-
see Cooper, page 3
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