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The Augusta News-Review March 24,1984
Class in Blackness
is over
by Chaplain A.C. Redd
We need to move
beyond the current con
cern of racial roots to
assume an even more ac
tive role into the better
ment of all people’s lives.
The Class in Blackness Is
Over. We need to move
to the next class.
Yes, we need to remind
ourselves of where we
came from, but we also
need to know where We
are going and how and
when we will get there.
We have to move beyond
our roots to show
productivity, flexibility
and stability.
The abused condition
of the Black man in
America is like unto a
weather-beaten cactus in
the desert. Despite
ravages of time and
deterioation all around it,
that cactus braved
nature. In doing so, it
defied its condition,
defied its life and defen
ded its right to be.
The survival of the cac
tus went beyond its roots;
they were only an anchor.
Other elements of it had
enabled the plant to
thrive.
Many successful
Blacks, like the cactus,
have managed to survive
the sands of destruction,
but do not become too
relaxed or complacent in
your achievement. Don’t
be at ease in Zion the
storm is still raging. Too
many Blacks are preoc
cupied with their Black
Heritage, to reach down
and back up to help the
less fortunate Blacks.
Scouts recognize
Emma Gresham
Mrs. Emma Gresham,
a teacher at Levi White
Elementary School, was
presented the Whitney M.
Young Award last
Tuesday at the annual
recognition banquet of
the Georgia-Carolina
Council of the Boy
Scouts of America.
The award is named
for the late National Ur
ban League director, and
Aka S-Ara.
HE KNOWS BLACK AFFAIRS
AREN’T JUST
BLACK AND WHITE.
■TO Tony Brown, the issues Tbny Brown dares to ask the questions
facing Black America are no one else will ask. Like when he investi
far too complex to be seen gated the social phenomenon of Black-
as simply Black and White. on-Black crime, in “Crisis: Blacks Killing
_ Good or Bad. Because Each Other!’Or when he posed the
when Tony Brown tackles an issue, he question, “ Black Revolt in the 80 s. is i
goes past the obvious, the superficial. coming?"
He’s looking for the truth. questions, sure. But to Tony
Tbnv Brown exposes issues with a pierc- Brown, that’s what journalism is all
ing insight that asks not just Who and about. And as PBS bongs Tbny Browns
What but Why. No candy-coated journal- Journal into its 14th year of hard-hitting
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Chaplain A.C. Redd
Those Blacks who are
making it and those who
made it, owe something
to those trapped in the
ghettoes. Those Blacks
who made it in the shade
owe something to those
who have struggled in the
sweltering heat and can’t
make it. Please
Please don’t forget
where you came from,
for when you get where
you are going you will not
last long. As you climb,
lift your brother, man.
Don’t get mad, but get
smart. If you want to
take over this world,
you’ve got to know how
to run it when you take it
over.
It is good to know the
history of Africa and also
the Swahilian dialect, but
don’t forget how to keep
the lights on, the jet
planes flying, and wall
street open.
Yes, the class in
blackness is over. Let us
move to the next class.
is awarded to persons in
scouting serving rural,
disadvantaged and
minority youth.
In 1976, she received
the Silver Beaver Award,
the Boy Scouts’ highest
award.
Mrs. Gresham began
working as a den leader in
1952, and has served con
tinuously since 1964.
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Diahann Carroll gets ‘Dynasty’ role
Ben Vereen is
coming up in a “Web
ster” recurring role,
along with Diahann
Carroll, who will be
doing the same in
“Dynasty” next season...
And Mr. T, who is hot
ter and more controver
sial than anyone else in
the N.8.C.-TV hit, “The
A-Team”, is reported to
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$600,000 personal royalty
check from sales of three
million toy dolls looking
like him...
And fans of Ernie
Hudson, who co-stars
with Dan Aykroyd in the
upcoming S4O million
dollar feature film,
“Ghostbusters”, can
hardly wait to see if Ernie
becomes another sales
potential merchandising
toy in his ghost world
regalia.
More Money Talk that
will boggle your hard
working mind: Michael
Jackson’s “Thriller”
video tape has sold 20
million units worldwide
at $29.95 each...and
could very well win an
Oscar for “best short
subject of the year”.
Promoter Don King, who
is master-minding the
projected world tour of
the re-united “The
Jacksons” says the tour
could gross SIOO million
in the USA, plus another
SIOO million in Europe
and Japan.
Diahann Carroll Michael Jackson
And That was a
$250,000 party at New
York City’s Museum of
Natural History for the
soft spoken, little fellow
(with Brooke Shields on
his elbow) t’other night
when his impact on the
world went into the
Guinness Book of Recor
ds.
Want Your Chance?
Well, Canadian producer
Norman Jewison, who
has made such films as
the Oscar-winning “In
the Heat of the Night”,
and the upcoming “A
Soldier’s Story”, is about
to make a new one titled
‘‘Jazz Babies”. It’s about
an all woman band in the
late Gladys Calloway
(Cab’s sister) and the
Harlem Rhythm Girls,
and others your parents
will recall, were doing it.
Says here that Larry
Gelbart is writing the
screenplay. Check ’em
out.
And Then there is in
dependent producer
director G.A. Gorg who
says he will start to film
“an interracial love and
blues-rock story” in the
middle of June. Gorg
says he wants “a pretty,
dancing actress” and a
“fierce, funny, dancing
actor”-both aged 17-19.
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resumes to Media
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OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA—The National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) held its Midwinter Workshop in Ocho Rios,
Jamaica at the Americna Hotel. Prime Minister Edward Seaga (cen
ter) addressed 200 publishers from the U.S. Black press, telling them
that the first Black newspaper in the United States, the “Freedom’s
Journal,’’ was published by a Jamaican, John B. Russworm, who
emigrated to America over 150 years ago and who is commemorated
by the NNPA’s most prestigious merit award bears his name. At the
microphone is Congressman Gus Savage (D-Ill.) who also addressed
the publishers, and seated to the right of Prime Minister Seaga is the
President of NNPA, Christopher Bennett, a native of Waynesboro,
GA.
Dr. Harris elected
UNCF board
Dr. William Harris,
president of Paine
College, was elected to
the United Negro College
Fund Board of Directors
during the tri-annual
meeting held at the New
York headquarters last
week.
Half of the 30-member
board is composed of
presidents of par
ticipating institutions of
higher learning such as
Paine College, with the
remaining 15 members
chosen from business and
industry leaders.
The board holds
primary responsibility for
the creation and im
plementation of L'NCF
-
Dr. William H. Harris
fundraising policy, which
is crucial to the consor
tium of the 42
predominantly Black
colleges represented by
this non-profit
organization.
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