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Hosea Williams won’t seek re-election
ATLANTA—Georgia Rep.
Hosea Williams has announce he
will not seek re-election to the state
legislature.
Williams, a democratic member
of the House for 10 years, said of
his political future, “I’ve
narrowed it down to three choices:
I’ll either run for It. governor of
Georgia (if Zell Miller doesn’t run
for re-election), State Labor
Commissioner, or for the sth U.S.
Congressional District Seat for
merly held by Andy Young.”
Many political observers believe
Williams will indeed go for the sth
District seat, which is currently
held by Wyche Fowler.
Williams has put together a
blue-ribbon “think tank” advisory
group. This group will set policies
Rights leader Clarence Mitchell dies
NEW YORK—Claren
ce M. Mitchell Jr., one of
the unsung heroes of the
civil rights movement,
died of a heart attack
at his home in Baltimore
March 18.
Parren Mitchell won’t back Jesse
From the Afro-American
BALTIMORE MD.—
Rep. Parren J. Mitchell
will not be a Jackson for
President supporter.
The seven-term
congressman, who
represents one of the key
districts in the state’s
May 8 primary, has
decided to back former
vice-president Walter
Mondale.
Mitchell says it is not
an easy decision, but the
threat posed by President
Ronald Reagan is so
enormous for Black
people and poor people
that he has no other
choice.
“My objective is to get
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Road to Seattle
The road to the final
four of the NCAA
basketball championship
has finally been decided,
and the battle in Seattle
will unfold; thus letting
us know who is the best
team in college basket
ball.
The stage was set 53
teams ago, and most of
the actors will be there:
Kentucky and the Twin
Towers, Georgetown and
Patrick Ewing, Houston
and Akeem the Dream,
and Virginia and Ralph
Sampson.
Oops! Excuse me!
Virginia is there without
Sampson. However,
Depaul, the sentimental
favorite and North
Carolina, the number 1
team all year long will sit
this one out. This has
been a strange tour
nament because it has
raised a lot of questions. I
have a few of my own.
Why was Georgetown,
winner of the regular
season and Big East tour
nament, sent all the way
across the country to the
West regionals and North
Carolina, a loser in the
ACC tournament permit
ted to play closer to
home?
Why was Kentucky
allowed to play the Mid
east regional finals at
home on their home
court? Talking about
home court advantage' -It
might have been okay in
the earlier rounds, but
not the finals
And wouldn't you
know it; Alcorn State,
one of two predominan
tly Black small colleges
(North Carolina A&T
was the other) in the
tournment was beaten by
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Hosea Williams
NAACP Executive
Director Benjamin L.
Hooks expressed the
Association’s great sense
of loss by noting that
Mitchell will long be
remembered for his great
rid of President Reagan
who has done more to
hurt Black people and
poor people than any
other single person I’ve
known since I’ve been in
Congress.”
Mitchell said that if
Reagan should win re
election most of the coun
try’s domestic programs
will be ended and affir
mative action and civil
rights legislation will be
dismantled.
“If he should be re
elected, he will control
the Supreme Court.
Therefore, I must go with
the person whom I think
has the chance to defeat
Reagan.”
a “never before been
done” television replay
The ‘Refs” actually
went to the television
network and asked for a
replay of a foul that had
been committed. This is
clearly against
regulations and might
have caused Alcorn State
early departure from the
tournament. The official:
was reprimanded, but that
was no consolation for
Alcorn.
It’s going to be tough
to pick a winner of this
one, but I’m going to
stick my neck out. In the
semi-finals Georgetown
will play Kentucky and
Houston goes up against
this year’s “Cinderella” !
team Virginia.
Thanks to the media,
Georgetown has been
billed as a bunch of in
timidating “bullies”
riding rough house over
their opponents.
Although Kentucky uses
the same tactics, their tac
tics have been down- i
played. In my opinion,)
this is going to hurt
Georgetown and their,
chances for a champion
ship. i
If Houston has less
than an eight point lead
going into the final 3
minutes of their game
with Virginia, Houston is
in trouble; their main
problem is shooting free
throws. Send Houston to
the line and you got a
chance.
My prediction is
Houston and Kentucky in
the finals, and although 1
wouldn’t put any money
on it, Kentucky will
probably be crowned this
year’s NCAA champion, j
1 hope I’m wrong.
and make decisions no matter what
office he runs for. Williams calls
this “a new day in politics.”
In the last decade, Williams has
sponsored several controversial
bills. Perhaps the most important
piece of legislation to pass in the
1984 legislative session was H.B.
152, introduced by Williams. With
the passage of this bill, the natural
father, who is unemployed
through no faulf of his own, will
no longer have to leave home and
desert his children simply to
qualify them for Aid to Families
With Dependent Children.
According to Williams, this bill
will help eliminate one of our
nation’s greatest problems—the
deterioration of the family struc
ture.
deeds, his personal in
tegrity and his own sense
of humanity.
Hooks said that Mit
chell was especially
unique because of his role
in the civil rights
Asked if he saw a
potential threat being
created by a Jackson for
President campaign, Mit
chell referred to a recent
incident.
“One of my staff
members was talking to
an elderly woman and he
asked her whom she
planned to vote for and
she said Jesse Jackson.
“He then asked her
who she would vote for if
he failed to wim the
nomination and she said,
Nobody. I will not vote.
That is the danger,” he
explained.
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tributions. “Mr. Mitchell
doggedly sought and
achieved passage of the
most comprehensive
series of civil rights laws
in the nation’s history.
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Local AKA ’s honored
MIAMI, FLA.—The
31st South Atlantic
Regional Conference
convened March 15-18 at
the Miami Hyatt Regency
Hotel.
Carol L. Babcock and
Ruth E. James, two local
sorority members, were
honored as “Silver-
Stars” at a gala Luau in
honor of 25-year mem
bers.
There were over 1,200
sorority members in at
tendance from the South
Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida. Other sorors at
tending from the CSRA
were Sorors Armenta
Fryer, Lunette Brigham,
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Janie Ruth Crawford,
Mattie Burroughs,
Georgene James Cald
well, Lucinda Parks,
Carlette, Franklin,
Jacqueline Millender,
Fannie S. Johnson, and
Ella S. Jones.
The theme, “Our
Diamond Jubilee
Promise Facets of
Dynamic Power,” served
as a stimulus for con
ference activities. The
sessions and workshops
addressed Alpha Kappa
Alphs’s thrust to con
tinue establishing
credibility to serve
mankind; social, political
and economic issues; per-
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sonal growth; and
provided enjoyable
moments of relaxation.
Some of the keynote
speakers and consultants
included Faye B. Bryant,
supreme basileus; Mary
Shy Scott, South Atlantic
regional director; Janet J.
Ballard, first supreme an
ti-basileus; Starlet M.
Jones, second supreme
anti-basileus; Earnestine
G. McNealey, executive
director; Lucretia
Payton, supreme
parliamentarian; Lula
Lang Jeter, supreme
tamiouchos; Bella
Clinkscale, Great Lakes
Regional Director; Deir-
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dre Barrett, un
dergraduate member-at
large; Anita McCollum,
undergraduate member
at-large; Freddie
Groomes, national
progrm chairlady;
Johnetta Haley, national
standards committee;
Vertelle Middleton,
national membership
committee; and Patricia
Russell McCloud, Russell
Consultants/Attorney-
At-Law.
The sorority • will of
ficially conclude the
Diamond Jubilee
Celebration at the 51st
Boule in Washington
D.C. in July.