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Jazz singer
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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 25
Jessye Norman to give
benefit for Paine College
Internationally acclaimed
soprano and Augusta native Jessye
Norman has accepted the position
of Honorary Chairperson of Paine
College’s Campaign for Excellen
ce, President William H. Harris
announced today.
Ms. Norman will perform a
benefit concert to kick-off the first
phase of the $6 million campaign
to build a library and performing
arts theater complex on the Paine
campus. “We are honored and
delighted that Ms. Norman has
agreed to lend her full support and
outstanding talent to this en
deavor’’, said Harris.
The concert is scheduled for
Jesse Jackson returns
to Operation PUSH
The Rev. Jesse Jackson will
return to Operation PUSH and
will redirect his efforts to “refocus
and reinvigorate” the PUSH In
ternational Trade Bureau, it was
*» announced this week.
According to associates in
Operation PUSH, while con
tinuing his political endeavors with
the Rainbow Coalition, Jackson is
determined at the same time to
have a major new economic
thrust in the private economy.
His re-entrance into the
economic arena will be announced
at a meeting to be held at the
PUSH national headquarters in
Chicago on Nov. 15. At that time
members of the PUSH Inter
national Bureau along with cor
porate officers of companies who
have signed trade agreements will
be convened. Also invited will be
other businessmen who are in
terested in involving themselves in
the movement.
Tutu continues
to speak out
against Reagan
NEWPORT, R.l. Bishop
Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace
Prize winner, said Friday U.S.
support of South Africa’s gover
nment is “shortsighted because his
country’s Black majority will one
day prevail and remember its
friends.
“We are very idealistic about the
U.S.A, and it is very disillusioning
that your country seems to havt (a
talent) for backing the wrong hor
se,” said Tutu, a leading opponent
of apartheid and Anglican bishop
of South Africa.
Apartheid is the official policy
of racial discrimination and
segregation against South Africa’s
majority Black population.
Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel
Peace Prize, visited Newport as
part of a celebration of the 2OOth
anniversary of the consecration of
historic Trinity Episcopal Church.
The Reagan administration’s
4 “record is a very distressing one,”
' he said. “Many people may have
forgotten but I haven’t... that the
president of South Korea was” the
first head of state to visit the ad
ministration. “He is head of one
of the most oppressive nations,”
Tutu said at a news conference
before taking part in a Trinity
Church service.
The bishop, who likes to
describe himself as “just a simple
minded minister,” said the ad-
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Rev. Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Willie T. Barrow, who
has been serving as interim
director of PUSH, stated, “While
the relationship between politics
ministration contributes to
“viscious racist policies” of the
South African white minority by
adopting a policy of “constructive
engagement” with the gover
nment.
“There was a time when the
United States certainly played a
positive role, wh en* it seemed to be
concerned about human rights,”
Tutu said. “This has not been the
case in the last four years.”
He said he does not specifically
ask for a boycott of South African
interests during his current tour of
the United States because “I would
be guilty of an indictable offense in
South Africa. What I would speak
about is pressure,” Tutu said.
He said he would like to see the
United States tell South Africa that
it is “an embarrassment” to the
United States because it is an ally
which supports apartheid.
Tutu said he has not suffered as
much as some other political op
ponents of apartheid but
acknowledged he has received
death threats.
He said he has taken some
precautions, such as keeping the
blinds closed when he is in a room,
or in his office, but the
assassination of Indira Ghandi by
her own guards shows that the
most stringent protection can fail.
Nobel winner
continues criticism
of Reagan
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January 21, 1985, at the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Chapel
on the Morehouse College campus
in Atlanta. Although the original
desire was to hold the concert
locally, the Atlanta location was
finally chosen because no suitable
facility currently exists in Augusta.
While negotiating a date and
location for the concert from her
home in London, Ms. Norman
noted “When our campaign suc
ceeds, this problem will not arise
again. It is my hope to return to
Augusta to open the doors of the
Paine College Theater sometime in
1987 for my first hometown per
formance since April, 1982.”
and religion is being hotly debated
these days, the relationship bet
ween politics and economics is very
clear. There is a direct relation
ship.
“We live in a political economy.
Rev. Jackson was made most
aware ot this fact when he involved
himself in his bid for the presiden
cy. With this experience in hand,
he hopes to apply much of what he
learned in breathing fresh air into
the PUSH campaign for the in
volvement of minorities in the
economic arena.”
“We are very serious about
using Rev. Jackson’s increased
national political stature to
challenge the private sector, to
rejuvenate the PUSH International
Trade Bureau and to serve those
who supported the concept of the
Rainbow Coalition,” he added.
“Involvement in the economic
arena is the only hope for political
advancement.”
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Mrs. Ruby L. Jenkins
Ex- Paine
professor dies
Mrs. Ruby L. Jenkins, director
of music at Paine College for more
than a half century, died Tuesday
at the age of 86.
She received her elementary,
high school, and undergraduate
education at Paine College, and
earned a second bachelor’s degree
and a master’s at the American
Conservatory of Music in Chicago.
She began teaching at Paine in
1920 and retired in 1972.
Mrs. Jenkins was a memberr of
Trinity C.M.E. Church since
childhood. Funeral services will be
held at Trinity Friday at 4 p.m.
The burial will be in Cedar Grove
Cemetery, with the Rev. Jerry
Poole officiating.
A member of the Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, she is survived by
her husband, Solomon M.
Jenkins; a niece, Thelma King,
Chicago; a nephew, Bobby John
son, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and a
cousin, Gertrude Manning of
Augusta.
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November 17,1984
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DADDY KING at Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change with his namesake’s
family (from left), Martin L. King 111, Bernice, Coretta Scott King, Yolanda, and bis own
daughter, Christine King Farris.
‘ 'Daddy King ’ ’
rose above tragedy
ATLANTA Funeral services
were held Thursday at Ebenezer
Baptist Church for Dr. Martin
Luther King Sr.
Those close to him called him
“Daddy King.” And to civil rights
activists, he was a father figure and
a fighter whose spirit spurred a
movement that still thrives.
King, 84, died Sunday in his
home in Atlanta, where he led the
city’s first voting march in 1932
and was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist
Church for 44 years.
Born in a sharecropper’s shack
in Stockbridge, Ga., on Dec. 19,
1899, King was the second of 10
children.
King’s life was graught with
tragedy—he lost one son, Dr. Mar
tin Luther King Jr., and his wife of
48 tears, Alberta, to assassins. His
son, the Rev. Adam Daniel King,
drowned.
“I’m trying to be as strong as I
Millie sues Newark
for concert boycott
NEWARK, N.J.—Charging
that her First Amendment Rights
are being violated, singer Millie
Jackson will file suit against the
city of Newark which she claims is
denying her the right to sing in the
city auditorium because she sang a
few years ago in South Africa.
A city law introduced by City
Councilman Donald Tuck and
passed recently by the full Council
will affect her scheduled concert in
Newark on Nov. 12.
Councilman Tucke said that
South Africa is a national issue
that concerns all Blacks and that
he felt that city funds should not
be used to support artists who may
have cooperated with that gover
nment. He also added that he had
met and discussed the issue with
Black Mayors throughout the
country and he was sure they
would follow his lead in their
respective cities.
Looking upon the law as an ac
tion that could cost her over
$35,000, Jackson said she regards
the edict as unconstitutional plus it
denies her freedom of speech as
embcdied in the First Amendment.
“Sure, I admit that I went to
South Africa in 80,” she siad.
“But since then I realized my error
and have expressed my regrets at
doing so.
“In talks with those conversant
with the inhuman system of gover-
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can, as daddy would want me to
be,” Christine King Farris, King’s
only surviving child, said Sunday.
President Reagan was “sad
dened by the news,” a spokesman
said.
Although tragedies surrounded
his life, friends remembered his
strength.
“Before he was famous, Martin
Luther King was always fighting
for people’s rights and standing up
for the little people of this coum
munity, and telling people not to
hate, ” said Atlanta Mayor An
drew Young, a chief aide to King’s
slain son.
“Daddy King was the patriarchh
of the movement and an era has
passed with him. They don’t make
them like that anymore,” said
Joseph Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
King took the assassination of
his namesake hardest: He fainted
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nment there and their apartheid
rulerhsip, I made known in no un
certain manner that I would never
perform there again until the Black
majority is given an equal voice in
government.
“Now am I to be persecuted for
past errors in judgment? To deny
me the right to perform is a public
place that my taxes also help to
support is illegal and amounts to a
boycott which I will take into court
to protest legally.”
From othei sources it was lear
ned that the Newark Council ac
tion will be duplicated across the
while viewing the body and visited
his crypt often.
But he never became bitter: “I
speak to my people about what it
means to love,” King siad. “We
have to rid ourselves of every oun
ce of hate. I can’t afford to hate. I
know what it leads to.”
He continued to be active in
politics and the civil rights
movement.
In 1976, former President Jim
my Carter —stung by criticism that
he had appealed to segregationist
Southern voters —said King’s ap
pearance at a downtown Atlanta
rally was a pivotal point in his
presidential run. “He stood up
and held my hand and let the world
see it, and that was the turning
point in my campaign,” Carter
said.
Former Atlanta Mayor Ivan
Allen Jr., who led the city during
the turbulence of hte 19605, said of
King: “He cannot be replaced.”
nation by more than 300 Black
Mayors to punish all performers,
both Black and white, who’ve per
formed in South Africa.
A year ago Jackson’s concert in
Newark Symphony Hall was
picketed although she had said she
would not make any repeat per
formances in South Africa. Rev.
Herbert Daughtry, a Brooklyn
minister, who talked with her siad
that his Black United Front played
no part in the picketing as he was
convinced of her sincerity.
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