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Volume 13, Number 21
Al Green visits local church,
talks of life in ministry
“I never thought I’d be singing
‘Amazing Grace.’ I thought I’d
always be singing ‘Love and Hap
piness.’
“People sometimes ask me
what turned me over to God, and I
tell them, “A pot of God’s grits,”
the Rev. Al Green told the
congregation at First Mt. Moriah
Baptist Church where he visited
Sunday morning.
The Grammy-winning former
soul singer turned to the ministry
six years ago after an incident in
which his girlfriend reportedly
scalded him with a pot of grits.
Green was in town Sunday
where he was the star attraction at
a civic center concert honoring the
eighth anniversary of Pee Wee
and the Psalmsters.
In an interview at the Hilton
Hotel, Green told the News-
Review that he maintains essen
tially the same lifestyle that he did
before entering the ministry. He
lives in the same mansion north of
Memphis.
Mayors disagree on Black candidate
DETROIT Five Black mayors
came to town for a panel dis
cussion as part of Dena Sigma
Theat’s 37th National Con
vention and, while they disagreed
on whether a Black should run for
president in 1984, they all agreed
the primary objective of Black
voters in that election should be to
unseat President Ronald Reagan.
The five mayors gave individual
presentations, then responded to a
panel of journalists, which in
cluded Philadelphia Daily News
Senior Editor and columnist
Chuck Stone. The panel was
moderated by Washington, D.C.
journalist Ethel Payne.
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“I’m bacheloring it again. Then
laughing, he added, “When I get
bored I go outside and wash a car
and comeback inside and read
some more.”
He said that many people atten
d his church, Full Gospel Taber
nacle Pentecostal Church, just to
see and to hear him sing for free.
“They come to see and to be seen.
They come for every reason that
you can imagine.
“As a minister, my job is to cap
ture fish when it comes, for
whatever reason.”
Three months he returned to the
concert tours. Asked why, he
replied, “Reality has started to set
in.”
“I think that I shouldn’t need
anything if the God I serve owns
everything.
“There are so many blessings
out here that you didn’t know were
out here, and God turns it over
and it’s a blessing in disguise. So
many things are filled with the
blessings of the Lord.”
“We do not have the luxury to
unite behind a Black candidate
who can’t win and re-elect Ronald
Reagan,” said Chicago Mayor
Harold Washington heatedly.
But Mayor Johnny Ford of
Tuskegee, Ala. as well as Mayor
Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind. ex
pressed the opposite opinion.
“I fully expect to see a Black
elected president by the year
2000,” Ford said, advocating that
a Black run for president and all
other government posts.
“Run for everything...we must
move to the city house and next the
state house and then the U.S.
House, for they all affect our
MAYOR Edward M. Mclntyre presents Key to the City to
the Rev. Al Green.
house,” he said to the 2,500 per
sons present.
“I’m not willing to wait that
long (until the year 2000),” Hat
cher said.
“We can pull together what it
takes to run a serious national
(campaign in 1984),” he said.
Hatcher said there are enough
unregistered Black voters in key
states to elect a Black president.
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young
was cautious in answering
questions about whether a Black
should run. Especially whether the
Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of
Chicago-based Operation PUSH,
bassador to the United Nations; Johnny Ford, Tuskegee;
host Mayor Coleman A. Young of Detroit; Mrs. Bailey;
Harold Washington, the former Illinois congressman who
was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor in April, and Gary,
Indiana’s Richard Hatcher.
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should. He said he is in touch with
Jackson often.
“I talk to Jesse all the time so
it’s hard for me not to support
Jesse. But I think we (Blacks)
ought to be in any campaign where
the candidate is likely to be elected
president,” he said.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young,
like Chicago’s Washington, had no
trouble, however, in saying
Jackson should not run.
“I don’t want to get into the
question of Jesse...l say to you
that the major task of Black
America today is to get rid of
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GREEN throws roses to fans at civic center.
Ex-Josey student
earns doctorate
Cordell A. Briggs says that he
was just an average student when
he was at T.W. Josey High School
in Augusta. He graduated in 1968.
Now he has Ph.D. in English
with a concentration in socio
linguistics. He is also completing a
book on the dialect of Paul
Laurence Dunbar’s poetry.
Dr. Briggs teaches at Loma Lin
da College in Riverside
Calif, where he is director of
Freshman English and an assistant
professor.
He attributes his success to the
constant support of his family,
particularly his mother, Mrs.
Dorothy Briggs Wiley, of 3206
Tate Road.
“There have been a few dynamic
teachers in my life. They gave me
motivation and a sense of con
fidence. The two from high school
were Mrs. Bernice Tillman and
Mallory Millender,” he said.
“Then I had a dynamic English
professor in college. When I was in
graduate school my linguistics
protessor saw tnat 1 nad an interest
in languages more than other
students. She encouraged me to
pursue linguistics.”
Not the least among the factors
contributing to his success, he said,
was leaving Augusta. “I think that
more students should leave and see
what lies beyond the state line.
“I’m not talking about material
things. I’m talking about being ex
posed to individuals of different
social and cultural backgrounds.”
Briggs earned his bachelor’s
degree from Oakwood College in
1972. He then studied at Andrews
University.
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Williams
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Dr. Roger Williams, dean for
Academic Affairs at Paine B *
College, was appointed by city K Jm
council Tuesday to a 3-year term WL
on the Data Processing Board.
Chairman W.S. Hornsby 111 and WBk. s .
Williams are the two Blacks ser- .
ving on seven-member com-
dTI
While in Michigan, he worked as
educational coordinator for the
Berrien County Sheriffs Depar
tment Inmate Rehabilitation
Program. He and his wife, Mellie,
still do volunteer work with prison
inmates.
He earned the doctorate in 1982
from Howard University.
Briggs’ work with the prisoners
is indicative of his philosophy on
Black self-help.
“Everybody knows that the
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1980 s are years in which Blacks
must demonstrate potential to do
for ourselves. I am convinced
that we must, as Blacks, realize
we’re going to have to do it for
ourselves.
“If we aren’t motivated enough
to enhance our own. No one else is
going to do it.”
The Briggs have two children,
Cordell Alzregory 11, and Medelf
Christen.. 4.
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